Published: November, 2001 Governor Gray Davis came to Fishermen’s Wharf this month to announce $5 million in redirected funding for promotion and advertising designed to attract locals. The hope is to fill the gap created by folks from further away who are choosing to not travel just now. Eight out of ten visitors to San […]
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Inside Story
Published: November, 2001 This page takes great interest in the new San Francisco Ferry Terminal project, a bedeviled project to be sure, but one that holds out such great promise for ferry commuters and the revitalized waterfront. When all aspects of the ambitious and visionary project are finally complete, it will be a state-of-the-art water […]
Reader of the Month
Published: November, 2001 Hon. Willie L. Brown, Jr. PROFESSION: Mayor, City and County of San Francisco FERRY COMMUTER: No, but I was an early and important backer of the Water Transit Authority. PEOPLE WOULD BE SURPRISED IF THEY KNEW: I would be surprised if there’s anything left to be surprised about after forty years of […]
Sausalito Working Waterfront Business
Founder Published: November, 2001 I’m very lucky to be in this business for 45 years. I opened the first Caffe Trieste in San Francisco in 1956. I was born in 1920 during the time of Mussolini in Rovigno. After the second war, we lost the land. Rovigno was a beautiful place. My papa was a […]
Golden Gate Larkspur Ferry Parking Lot Construction
Published: November, 2001 On Monday, October 8, construction began at the Golden Gate Larkspur Ferry Terminal parking lot, adding 210 parking spaces to the existing 1,316 spaces. The parking lot will remain open to the public during construction. However, about 250 parking spaces will be closed during the four-phase construction process, which will last […]
On the Waterfront HAPPENINGS AT FISHERMAN’S WHARF
By Alessandro Baccari Published: November, 2001 San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf has a spruced-up, new look thanks to the success of a pilot project to clean and beautify 32 blocks of the Wharf’s commercial area. Over 100 city workers representing the Department of Public Works, the Port of San Francisco, Department of Parking & Traffic, Department […]
Bay Crossings Bay Environment
By Teri Shore Published: November, 2001 I spotted the white-crowned sparrows in my Sonoma backyard in early October. I was waiting for them. The little brown birds always arrive about this time to feed in the trees around my house during the winter. The black-and-white head stripes distinguish them from other sparrows. I don’t know […]
Bay Crossings Journal WATERBIKES
By Bill Coolidge Published: November, 2001 It’s an all out hustle. Jump from the boat, grab four lines, tie one down, Keep the boat from going forward and colliding with the green canoe. Take the engine out of reverse, put it in neutral, pray no gusts slant in and ruin a good docking. But in […]
Bay Crossings Interview Kimberly Brandon Woman on the Spot
Published: November, 2001 I don’t consider my responsibilities to be a headache. I am very fortunate to have the support of a very talented and diverse group of fellow Commissioners. We have a dedicated Port Director and Port staff along with other dynamic resources that the City & County of San Francisco offers. My role […]
Letters to the Editor
Published: November, 2001 Dear Editor: As a San Francisco native naval architect now in exile from the Bay Area, I was interested to find your magazine on the internet and read some of the back issues. I was most interested in the article about building ferries in the Bay Area, (August 2000) as it always […]