Published: December, 2005 The Big Game at San Francisco’s Waterfront story: • The Government Accounting Office is now called the Government Accountability Office. • Taylor Safford’s surname was spelled incorrectly. • Blue & Gold took the Alcatraz Service over from Red & White in 1997, not 1973. Bay Crossings strives to correct errors of […]
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Cautionary Tale for Bay Shippers
Curse of the Narrows by Laura M. Mac Donald Illustrated. 356 pp. Walker & Company $26 By Patrick Burnson Published: December, 2005 San Franciscans are hardly strangers to natural catastrophes. Our quakes of ’06 and ’89 of the last century are well documented, and most of us are reconciled to the idea that another big […]
The Bay Area, Coffee Capital of the West
By Wes Starratt Published: December, 2005 Does the corner of Walnut & Vine streets in Berkeley mean anything to you? It didn’t to me, other than the fact that it is a block away from where I grew up. I do remember it as a quiet corner with a Friends (Quaker) Meeting House facing two […]
Bay Crossings’ Boulette Bash
Published: December, 2005 Bay Crossings threw a for-no-reason-whatsover bash at the peerless Boulette’s Larder at the Ferry Building. Here’s the tale of the tape.
Celebrating Grapes
By Dianne Boate and Robert Meyer Published: December, 2005 It’s not often that everybody is happy with what is going on, but those in the California wine industry are popping all their buttons right now, with the spreading news of the high quality and high yield of the winegrape harvest this season. High yield does […]
Diving Above Sea Level
An atypical underwater excursion for Bay Area scuba enthusiasts By Scott Hargis Published: December, 2005 It’s 8 o’clock in the morning when dive instructor Ted Heublein gathers his group of scuba enthusiasts for a rundown of the day’s diving activities. They plan three dives for the day, and expect to reach depths of up to […]
The Integrity Blues
Are Records Better than CD’s? By Mary E. Shacklett Published: November, 2005 Compact disks have been the medium of recorded music for the past 15 years. If you’ve only ever listened to CD’s, you might not even know how original vinyl records sounded. You probably would not think that the musical integrity of the recording […]
Brando, Ahab and the Great White Way
New Books of Appeal to Ferry Commuters By Patrick Burnson Published: November, 2005 Fan-TanBy Marlon Brando and Donald Cammell Edited by David Thomson Knopf $23.95 When Marlon Brando played his starring role as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront, his now-classic line was I coulda’ been a contender. And while this legendary actor went […]
A Few Words About Wine Labels:
Wine Snobs and Pink Pigs Dianne Boate and Robert Meyer Published: November, 2005 We have become more aware of wine labels this season because of our taking a very interesting class at City College of San Francisco on the history of food and wine in France. The French are very strict about their wine labels […]
Venetian-StyleTravel in the City of Angels
By Mark Street Published: November, 2005 Ha, ha… it’s not Los Angeles, but another city of angels — Bangkok, Thailand. Bangkok is not the real name for the capital of Thailand. The actual name for the city known as Bangkok is very long, about 100 words, and is locally shortened to the first two words: […]