Published: June, 2003 The Taste of Oakland was a downtown event. A truly diverse group of restaurants were joined by local bakeries and catering companies. For libations, Rosenblum Winery, Brothers and Pacific Breweries, Shakers American Vodka, and Wyders Hard Cider kept glasses full. Music flowed, keeping the crowd moving around the tables and displays of […]
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Cheers to the Tiburon Wine Festival!
Published: June, 2003 The Tiburon Wine Festival held on May 17, 2003 has mellowed and matured like a fine wine. It couldn’t miss as a successful event when a fabulous group of vintners and wine merchants, representing 50 of the best wines grown in California, plus a few great beers and excellent food provided by […]
SS Jeremiah O’Brien in the News
Published: June, 2003 On Saturday, May 17, the SS Jeremiah O’Brien, the Liberty Ship that made eleven passages carrying Allied troops, explosives, and tanks between England and the Normandy beachheads during the World War II D-Day landings, received the World Ship Trust’s prestigious Maritime Heritage Award. The award was presented in ceremonies aboard the O’Brien […]
Concerts at the Cove Celebrates Alameda’s West End
Published: June, 2003 West Alameda Business Association (WABA) will host its sixth annual Concerts at the Cove series—a series of three concerts at Alameda’s Crab Cove at the foot of McKay Avenue at Central Avenue. The free evening performances will be held on the second Friday of each month, June through August. The free concerts […]
Waterfront Living
Published: June, 2003 The Towers, also known as One Embarcadero South, was built as an apartment complex. Now under new ownership and management, it is reinventing its quality and way of life into a luxury living homeowners resort-like complex with great success. The Towers has been sequentially undergoing extensive remodeling as rented units end their […]
The Last Whaling Station
Published: June, 2003 One of the two last whaling stations in America was active in San Francisco Bay until 1971. It was located on the north side of Point San Pablo, just up the railroad tracks from the Point San Pablo Yacht Harbor. It was opened in 1956 by Del Monte on a bight near […]
Libations Champagne Taste
Published: June, 2003 (From Andre Simon’s 1962 book Champagne, found in our bookcase.)We can think of no other beverage whose mention brightens one’s prospects so instantly. The idea of a glass of champagne can lift your mood and change the atmosphere. It’s not a case of remembrance of things past, Mr. Proust, but the anticipation […]
Learning Day and Night
Published: June, 2003 Across from St.Patrick’s Church, at 920 Peralta (at 10th), is a new community center for West Oakland that is making a difference. Pastor Burns lead the effort to save the old abandoned building that in 1876 was a convent. His brother, Washington Burns ,aided in making that a reality. The center is […]
Bay CrossingsJournal
By Bill Coolidge Published: May, 2003 We heaved up and over countless logs, helter skelter across the river. We heard the steady churning wail of the chain saws as we paddled our beat-up aluminum canoes down the Neuse River. The four of us had often taken a Saturday afternoon to flow down the Neuse until […]
Changing of the Guard at San Francisco’s Last Shipyard
Published: May, 2003 First, it was San Francisco’s famed Union Iron Works established in the 1850s for building heavy machinery for California’s gold mines. As mining waned, however, the Iron Works cast about looking for other markets. Railroads and shipping seemed to be good answers, and in 1885, Union Iron works launched the first steel […]