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Waterfront Tourism Businesses Struggle to Find Footing

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As business owners nationwide struggle to find a way to stay afloat while shelter-in-place orders remain in place, those with strong ties to tourism are bracing for a very shaky start to the normally robust summer season. And in San Francisco, a city whose economy is inextricably linked to the 25 million people who visit […]
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Citywide Statues Commemorate 30th Anniversary of Sea Lions’ Arrival

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BY JOEL WILLIAMS It was shortly after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake shook the Bay Area that the first sea lions began hauling out onto the piers in the Pier 39 marina. It was a few here and there at first, but by January 1990 their numbers had reached 500—at one point they topped out […]