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By Graceann Walden  Published: October, 2001 Almost thirty years ago, when I was about to relocate to the Bay Area, I heard a weird prediction from a couple of wiseacre New York artist-friends. Here is what they said, "Someone will take you across the Golden Gate Bridge and tell you are going to a quaint […]

Bob Freeman  Published: October, 2001 Owner, Buena Vista Cafe in San Francisco, Water Street Grille in Sausalito I started out working in hotels right out of high school. I went to Dickinson College for a couple of years and decided I wanted to go into the hotel and restaurant business. So I applied to the […]

Published: October, 2001 By Rob Franco, Executive Director of Sausalito Chamber of Commerce. GIVE ME A REASON! If you need a reason to come to Sausalito, I can provide you with a list as long as both our arms. Or, you can make a list of your own. And, you no doubt will, once you […]

Aaron Peskin  Published: October, 2001 Waterfront Activist/City and County of San Francisco Supervisor The South End Rowing Club, is who I was speaking for in 1996, organized with the Dolphin Club to protect water quality even if it took a semi-litigious threatening posture. Then to the Port’s credit, the then-Port Director decided he’d rather have […]

By Christine Cordi  Published: October, 2001 September 11, 2001. The dark clouds engulf us all. As countless rescue workers, search dogs, then cadaver dogs comb through the 1.2 million tons of rubble left where two proud towers once stood, many of us survivors are also left searching. We feel our way through a kaleidoscope of […]

Published: October, 2001 I Silken sacrament of night poetry drapes like a long tender embrace around my shoulders this circling of the lei’ ebbs the flooding of some vague beckoning mysteries, she, tangerined face, moist eyes faintly twitching, half-smile slowly ebbing does she know how the omega of these rounded rainbow colors have already changed […]

Published: October, 2001 I had set aside Tuesday, September 11 to write this column. Though late (as usual), I was looking forward to writing about some funny backstage business having to do with putting out Bay Crossings. But a woman at my health club told me about the terrorist attacks and I rushed to see […]

Published: October, 2001 The September 11th terrorist attack has delivered a roundhouse blow to the Bay Area’s tourism industry, with ferry service, restaurants, hotels and attractions all around the Bay registering precipitous drops on business. Extensive layoffs and closings are anticipated. The blow comes on the heels of the economic slowdown following the dot-com crash […]

By John Bollinger  Published: October, 2001 John Bollinger, along with his wife Ellen, was editor and publisher of Pierless magazine, which was the magazine for the 35,000 daily private ferry borne commuters in New York. John has been a regular passenger on the Atlantic Highlands to Wall Street ferry for eight years. The two highly […]

By Wes Starratt, Senior Editor   Published: October, 2001 As long ago as 1906, San Francisco learned from dreadful experience that the versatility and reliability of Bay Area ferries can move people out of danger and move medical supplies into disaster areas. Records show that masses of people headed to the East Bay and the […]