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Published: September, 2001 Ico-own Compass Rose Yacht Charters. I started the business about 12 years ago with a yacht I had for private use at the time. I had no plan to create a charter business, but then my first yacht, Camelot, proved to be very well received by my friends and clients. They asked […]

Published: September, 2001 Fair to say that you love Fisherman’s Wharf? I love the waterfront, but I don’t love Fishermen’s Wharf. I remember walking down here with my grandfather when it was a working wharf. Now it has become primarily tourist based and we are losing the working waterfront. I was concerned enough about it […]

By Bill Coolidge  Published: September, 2001 A seagull meanders, about tree level around the outskirts of the grassy playfield. Blown off course by the northerly wind coming out of the estuary or just hanging around the green dumpster behind the fenced batters’ cage? My attention, though, is on the white spot rising up above the […]

Published: September, 2001 The southern portion of the new San Francisco Ferry Terminal looks to be open for business in early September, meaning a change in location for East Bay ferryriders getting on and off their vessels. And that’s not the only surprise ferryriders may encounter in September. With a BART strike looming, ferryriders are […]

Published: September, 2001 I am in Montreal to attend a family reunion. A first cousin is a cameraman at a big television station here and I ask him to let me tag after him one day at work. I’m curious about the contrast between producing television news and a small community newspaper like Bay Crossings. […]

Published: September, 2001 Polyester 69 PROFESSION: Fishermen’s Wharf street performer FERRY COMMUTER:.Uh, no. IF I HAD A FREE DAY, I’D SPEND IT: Riding a ferry to Sausalito, if they’d let me. FAVORITE BOOK: The Bible. HOW I WOULD LIKE TO BE REMEMBERED: As a great entertainer. PET PEEVE: Triple meters. MY MOTTO: Open up! HOBBIES: […]

Published: September, 2001 I am a local guy. I went to high school down the Peninsula. I went to Cal, both undergraduate and graduate school. When I got out of Cal, I went to work for the Kaiser company in Oakland, worked for them for 7 years and then following one of my favorite guys […]

By Nancy Salcedo  Published: September, 2001 From the waves at Fort Point to the winds that blast through the Golden Gate in the summertime, the northern waterfront is as challenging as it is beautiful – no beginners here. As you walk north from the Ferry Building the elements account for more and more of your […]

Published: September, 2001 We’re the family members of the Alioto-Lazio Fish Company; actually the proper name is F. Alioto Company. But because we are one of the many of the Alioto clan, we needed to distinguish ourselves so we used our grandmother’s maiden name of Alioto and our grandfather’s surname of Lazio, making it the Alioto-Lazio […]

Published: September, 2001 Well, actually I have been the President for over a year, but I have been the President with money for only about 7 or 8 months. That’s because our budget was vetoed in June of last year and we only reacquired our right to the $12 million appropriation at the end of […]