New Fishermen’s Wharf Hyde Street Harbor Opens

Of Books and Boxers

By Paul Duclos Published: April, 2016 San Francisco may have suffered something of a black eye earlier this year when the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America moved its annual book fair to Oakland’s Marriott City Center. According to booksellers we spoke with, though, the move was necessary because the former venue in the Fashion Center […]

MIGHTY PORT OF OAKLAND By Graham Claytor

By W. Graham Claytor  Published: June, 2005 Oakland, in 1851, was described as an “evil-smelling strip of muddy tidelands on one side and a flotsam-filled creek on the other.” A few scattered shacks inhabited by squatters on Don Luis Maria Peralata’s vast land grant and cattle ranch were beneath his notice, dismissed as mere gringos. […]

At Long Last, the Tower Begins to Rise From the Bay

Bay Bridge East Span Update   By Brenda KahnPublished: August, 2010    Piece by piece, the new Bay Bridge East Span’s signature element — the self-anchored suspension span, or SAS in engineers’ shorthand — is taking shape at an impressive clip. Significant progress has been made since the first steel deck segments arrived from Shanghai […]