Published: April, 2001 San Francisco’s Embarcadero Center, located on the waterfront in the heart of the city’s Financial District, in conjunction with SFJAZZ, will be showcasing the Embarcadero Center Summer Jazz Series, a series of free noontime jazz concerts from August 9 through September 27,2001. The Embarcadero Center Summer Jazz Series will feature local, world-class […]
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Working Waterfront
Steven Richardson Published: April, 2001 I’ve waited on tables here at Lapis in the afternoon for the last five months. I’ve waited on tables since I was sixteen so altogether I’ve been waiting on tables for twenty years. First time here on the waterfront. Well, actually no, because I worked at Boulevard, which is almost […]
North Bay / Delta
Published: April, 2001 So much a part of the history of Contra Costa County, its Delta cities also have an influence today and will tomorrow. While there is little room left in Central County, space is available and affordable for industrial, commercial and residential development in East Contra Costa County. As new business comes, so […]
Baseball’s Back on the Bay
Published: April, 2001 Monday, April 2, 2001 is opening day for the National League West Division Champions San Francisco Giants. Last year more than 3.3 million fans sold out every home game at the spectacular new Pacific Bell Park, and this year promises to be just as popular. So how are you going to get […]
East Bay Bay Crossings Patrick’s Journal
By Patrick McCabe’s Alameda Journal Published: April, 2001 The four container cranes for Berths 55 and 56 arrived at the Port of Oakland on October 24, 2000 from China. They will be operational by the time this goes into print, and will be given a fanfare of trumpets. They are the largest container cranes in […]
Heroes and Goats
Published: April, 2001 What to say about a Bay Area transportation system that gets you to San Diego – over 500 miles away — faster than it can get you to Santa Rosa – just over 50 miles away (centerfold story "What’s Closer – San Diego or Santa Rosa)? About a system that was faster, […]
East Bay HAWAIIAN CHIEFTAIN
Published: April, 2001 The 103' west coast square-rigger, HAWAIIAN CHIEFTAIN, will be back in the San Francisco Bay, sailing in under the Golden Gate Bridge on March 14, 2001 after spending the winter in southern California. The ship is a replica of a 1790’s northern European trading vessel. From November through March each year she […]
WTA Staff On Board
Published: April, 2001 The newly organized San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority (WTA) has hired its first staff members. Here they are: Thomas G. Bertken, Chief Executive Officer Mr. Bertken has 46 years of experience in the planning, engineering, and management of major transportation projects, including rail, rapid transit, ports, airports, highways, roads, and […]
Bay Crossings Journal
By Bill Coolidge Published: April, 2001 The tide is coming in, swirling movement in coastal waters lapping on shore as gull and egret sun themselves. The cormorant slowly unfolds her wings, standing on an abandoned dock on the lee side of this island, is drying her feathers. Into this quiet repose comes a splash, a […]
Letters to the Editor
Published: April, 2001 Dear Editor, Re: your interview with Port of Oakland Executive Director Chuck Foster: in spite of heavy competition from ports in southern California and in the Pacific Northwest, the Port of Oakland had its busiest year ever, with inbound traffic growing by 7.4 percent while export cargo grew by 3.6 percent. At […]