By Byron Anderson Published: November, 2001 In a not too distant future, sleek, quiet ferries will speed across the waters of San Francisco Bay powered by hydrogen fuel cells. In this future, the black smoke and the rumbling vibration of diesel powered ferries have been relegated to quaint memories of the past, the same way […]
Author: BAY CROSSINGS STAFF REPORT
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 […]
Bay Crossings Riders of the Tides
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 […]
Working Waterfront In their own words
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 […]
Marin Section
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 […]
Sausalito Working Waterfront Business
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 […]
Sausalito – Good Eats and Great Views
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 […]
Bay Crossings Round-up
Published: October, 2001 Italian Festival at Jack London Square Chases the Blues Away
San Francisco Ferry Terminal Project Lurching to the Finish Line
Published: October, 2001 Though thoroughly bedeviled by delays and problems, the first phase of the dramatic new San Francisco Ferry Terminal is set to open any day now in all its glory. Fears of a BART strike had put workers onto a fast track that would have had the new facility ready by the first […]
On the Waterfront
By Alessandro Baccari Published: October, 2001 Since boyhood, I have been attracted to the charms of Fisherman’s Wharf. It is one of those rare places where history, culture and ethnic pride form a distinctive blend that sets the place apart from other places and gives it a strength and vitality all its own. For over […]