Published: May, 2003 A Taste of Oakland 2003 on May 8 will offer just the right ingredients for an evening of food and fun. There’ll be tasty morsels and beverages from a variety of Oakland’s restaurateurs, garnished with lively blues music and spirited dance performances. Sponsored by the Oakland Convention & Visitors Bureau (OCVB) in […]
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The Port Of Oakland Needs Your Help!
Published: May, 2003 In our April issue, we learned that "Oakland Opens the Door to Its Waterfront" (Page 8), which described the development of the Middle Harbor Shoreline Park and the Middle Harbor Habitat. We pointed out that Middle Harbor Cove had been a tidal marsh that was dredged to accommodate ships docking at the […]
Libations
Published: May, 2003 First it was Los Angeles. Then New Orleans. Las Vegas, Orlando, San Francisco, and Boston followed. Every year I trailed along, being more interested in going to the city than the reason for going there: the annual Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA) convention. I had a dim perception then of […]
Changing of the Guard at San Francisco’s Last Shipyard
Published: May, 2003 First, it was San Francisco’s famed Union Iron Works established in the 1850s for building heavy machinery for California’s gold mines. As mining waned, however, the Iron Works cast about looking for other markets. Railroads and shipping seemed to be good answers, and in 1885, Union Iron works launched the first steel […]
Opening of Argonaut Hotel in San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
Published: May, 2003 The opening of San Francisco’s new, waterfront Argonaut Hotel–delayed for more than a year due to fire–is now slated for August 2003, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants announced today. Housed in the historic Haslett Warehouse, the Argonaut Hotel will be located at the corner of Jefferson and Hyde Streets in the San Francisco […]
How Do Bus Drivers Feel About Golden Gate’s Financial Problems?
Published: May, 2003 An interview by Senior Editor Wes Starratt with Tony Withington, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 1575 … the Golden Gate Bus Drivers, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Water Transit Authority. BC: Tell our readers something about yourself and your union. I was born and brought […]
Wine Festival by the Bay
Published: May, 2003 Stroll along the quaint picturesque main street of Tiburon May 17th to Point Tiburon Plaza for the first big community wine tasting event of the 2003 season. The Tiburon Wine Festival is sponsored by the many businesses of Tiburon through the Chamber of Commerce. The annual Festival is in its 20th year. […]
Freeway Service Patrol Logs 1 Million Assists
Published: May, 2003 A stranded motorist and the veteran Freeway Service Patrol (FSP) tow truck driver who came to his rescue together helped the roving tow truck service reach its 1 millionth assist on Monday, March 24, 2003. Steve Kinsey, chair of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) Service Authority for Freeways and Expressways (SAFE), which […]
Bay CrossingsPoetry
Just a Glance By Bill Coolidge Published: May, 2003 two egrets skid low among the branches of Live Oak trees their forward progress impeded by a stiff east wind their bodies, like sheets hanging on a clothes line tremble and shake the wild horses are fidgity munching, glancing up the sky is heavy laden, […]
Bay CrossingsJournal
By Bill Coolidge Published: May, 2003 We heaved up and over countless logs, helter skelter across the river. We heard the steady churning wail of the chain saws as we paddled our beat-up aluminum canoes down the Neuse River. The four of us had often taken a Saturday afternoon to flow down the Neuse until […]