Published: May, 2001 The San Francisco Bar Pilots, who have been safely guiding ships through San Francisco Bay since 1835, will soon christen two new 2000 Class Station Boats. These vessels, the San Francisco and the California, are outfitted with the latest technology, including environmentally friendly low exhaust emission engines and oil water separators. The […]
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Roger Murphy 1935-2001
By Carl Nolte Published: May, 2001 Roger Murphy, who founded the Blue and Gold Fleet and was a major figure in the revival of ferry operations on San Francisco Bay, died of heart failure on the last day of March. "Roger Murphy was a father figure of the ferry fleet," said Bobby Winson, the editor […]
The Tiburon Issue
Published: May, 2001 Tiburon’s not hard to love, set like it is on the tip of the Tiburon Peninsula overlooking Raccoon Strait, Angel Island, and San Francisco. The surprise here is the strong sense of place. The town is very much lived in by its residents, and the experience is very real. Many people come […]
Pipe Up!
Published: May, 2001 A new and exciting project, that will bring music and magic to the people of San Francisco, is brewing at the foot of Market Street and Embarcadero, in front of the historic Ferry building. The Waterfront Pavilion will be a cultural facility that will become the permanent home of the 1915 Exposition […]
An Estuary Runs By It
Published: May, 2001 Editor’s note: I confess to jingoism here: I live in Alameda across the Oakland Estuary from the Fruitvale neighborhood and have come to love this colorful, undiscovered treasure of a neighborhood. Fruitvale reminds me of the Potrero Hill neighborhood in San Francisco. In the early 1980’s many artists moved in to what […]
A Picaresque History of the Port of Oakland
Published: May, 2001 During the Depression, make-work programs put many artists and writers to work on projects like the Federal Theater Project (Orsen Wells, amongst others). A look at any one of the many WPA murals in Post Offices across the country gives an appreciation for the kind of strong, socially conscious talent that was […]
Cruise the Wonders of the Sacramento Delta
Published: May, 2001 Enjoy a river cruise through the Sacramento Delta aboard the high-speed catamaran "Bay Breeze". Relax as the vessel follows in the wake of the majestic steam powered paddle wheelers that were the passenger ships of the Gold Rush. While you and your group cruise between the historic ports of Sacramento and San […]
Bay Crossings Journal
By Bill Coolidge Published: May, 2001 Just give me a little more time! I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them, until they’re real and ripe and worthy of you. Rainer Maria Rilke It was early February, 2001 that I noticed these black and white bobbers in five acres […]
Final WTA Board Member Named
Published: May, 2001 The 11th and final member has been named to the San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority Board. Rocco Louis Mancinelli is a Senior Research Scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View The legislation creating the WTA specifies that Mancinelli’s spot be reserved to a trained biologist. A quick review of […]
Ask Dr. MOM
Published: May, 2001 Ask Dr. Mom is a health advice column that will appear monthly in Bay Crossings. It’s a partnership between Bay Crossings and St. Luke’s Hospital/San Francisco, specifically their Millennium Occupational Medicine (MOM) program, headed by Dr. Clint Potter (a.k.a, Dr. Mom). Dr. Mom invites encourages your questions, which can be directed to […]