On March 16, the City of San Francisco and five other Bay Area counties issued a shelter-in-place order for non-essential activities. This was the most severe measure of its kind in the country at the time, with an initial three-week order that ran through April 7. I am proud to live in a state and […]
Due to the standing stay-at-home order for non-essential activities in the Bay Area, we regret to announce that Bay Crossings will not be releasing an April issue. With ferry ridership down by more than 90 percent and tourism at a complete halt, most of the distribution points for the publication have little to no activity […]
BY JOEL WILLIAMS It was shortly after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake shook the Bay Area that the first sea lions began hauling out onto the piers in the Pier 39 marina. It was a few here and there at first, but by January 1990 their numbers had reached 500—at one point they topped out […]
BY JOEL WILLIAMS In January 2000, Bay Crossings founder Bobby Winston and Inlandboatmen’s Union leader Marina Secchitano personally handed out the first issue of Bay Crossings to ferryboat commuters as they boarded and disembarked from the boats at the San Francisco Ferry Building. Just two months earlier, Governor Gray Davis had signed into law a […]
BY JOEL WILLIAMS Last month, the Nimitz Group completed its acquisition of 500 acres of land on Vallejo’s Mare Island. Nimitz is a real estate investment and development firm founded by billionaire investor Gaylon Lawrence Jr. and wine magnate Dave Phinney, who recently opened the Savage & Cooke Distillery on the island. Phinney told Bay […]