Published: October, 2001 Scheduled to sail through the Golden Gate on October 17th is the Bay Area’s newest high-speed ferry, the MV Peralta. After crew training and Coast Guard inspections, the vessel is scheduled to be put into service during the first week of November, carrying passengers from terminals on the estuary in Alameda and […]
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Are You Okay?
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 […]
A Picaresque History of the Port of Oakland
Published: October, 2001 A picture of the waterfront of the early 1850’s is a picture of the town itself in its cradle days. Oakland was a typical American small-port village, clustering mainly about lower Broadway, called Main Street in 1854. Two wharves jutted out into what was then the ship channel, with only two and […]
Bay Area Tourism Industry on the Ropes
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 […]
Regional Director, Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific, Marine Division, ILWU
Published: October, 2001 Member, WTA Board What is the IBU? We’re the largest inland maritime union on the West Coast. We were founded in San Francisco in 1918 as the Ferryboatmen’s Union of California, later renamed the Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific (the IBU). Our Union extends from Alaska to Washington, including Oregon, California and […]
Inside Story
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 […]
Bay Crossings Reader of the Month
Published: October, 2001 Steven Smith PROFESSION: Managing Partner, Lapis Restaurant FERRY COMMUTER: Yes, from Sausalito PEOPLE WOULD BE SURPRISED IF THEY KNEW: The places I’ve been that I don’t speak about IF I HAD A FREE DAY, I’D SPEND IT: Going to the seashore. MY PROUDEST MOMENT WAS:.When my son was born HOW I WOULD […]
Bay Crossings Journal
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 […]
A Guide to San Francisco Bay Ferries (and what to do when you get there)
Published: October, 2001 A San Francisco Bay ferryboat ride is a sublime experience of the first order. Figuring out which one to take can be a bit daunting because there are many ferry companies and no centralized schedule. But with the tiniest bit of planning it’s possible for anyone, visitors and Bay Area residents alike, […]
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 […]