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Author : Paul C. Trimble,William Knorp
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 073854731X
Chiefly photos from the collections of the authors.
Author : George H. Harlan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : California
ISBN : UOM:39015004539733
Pictorial history of the boat lines crossing San Francisco Bay and the men who pioneered them since their establishment in the year 1850.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Bridges
ISBN : LOC:00121562182
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045428765
Author : State Coastal Conservancy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520274365
“The San Francisco Bay Shoreline Guide takes us on a walking and cycling journey around San Francisco Bay, unfolding the wonder, drama and beauty of one of the great estuaries of the world.”--Robert Redford "From the bustling waterfronts of our cities and towns, to our wild, windswept, and thankfully, protected natural wetlands, this is our fantastic guide to all of the magnificence of the San Francisco Bay Shoreline. Grab it and go on world-class journeys in our own backyard. I'll see you along the trail!"--Doug McConnell, Television Producer and Reporter “This guide helps to create an awareness and appreciation of San Francisco Bay.”--Sylvia McLaughlin, co-founder of Save the Bay Praise from the previous edition "There are absorbing stories here for the armchair reader and detailed guides for the active explorer. Read, enjoy, and cultivate your roots in the region."—Harold Gilliam "Comprehensive and copiously illustrated, this Guide is a treasure-house of user-friendly information. It reveals the equivalent of a national park hitherto unknown in our midst."—Margot Patterson Doss "This book is a complete guide to the Bay Area. All that's missing are the smells, so perhaps the next edition should be scratch and sniff."—Robin Williams
Author : W. J. Sivel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Ferries
ISBN : UCBK:C100985126
Author : Robert W. Bowen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439640258
The golden age of postcards coincided with several momentous events in San Francisco history, including a major earthquake and fire destroying over one third of the city, rapid reconstruction, strikes, political upheaval, parades, festivals, and a world's fair. From World War I through World War II, jazz-age San Francisco experienced a building boom of houses, skyscrapers, and engineering marvels such as the Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge, creating a marvelous Bay Area landscape documented on thousands of ubiquitous, inexpensive picture postcards popular with both visiting tourists and local residents.
Author : Anne Evers Hitz
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781439661840
For many years, visitors traveling to San Francisco came via ferry, and the Ferry Building, one of San Francisco's most famous landmarks, stood ready to welcome them. In the 1920s, the Ferry Building was the world's second-busiest transit terminal (after Charing Cross, London), with more than 50,000 people a day passing through the elegant structure, designed by architect A. Page Brown and opened in 1898. When the 1906 earthquake struck and the ensuing fire was destroying the city, the venerable waterfront icon stood above the ruins, giving residents hope that the city would recover and rise from the ashes. By 1939, with the Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay Bridge both open, ferry traffic fell off. By the late 1950s, ferry service ended altogether, and the building's beautiful facade was blocked by the double-decker Embarcadero Freeway. With the freeway's demise after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the Ferry Building was restored and reopened in 2003. It is once again a beacon of civic pride, a landmark listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and a public space that anchors the San Francisco waterfront.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Social surveys
ISBN : LOC:00186998248
Author : Mel Scott
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520055101
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Bridges
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019581656
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Author : Robert Graysmith
Publisher : Monkey's Paw Publishing, Inc.
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781736580080
From the New York Times bestselling author of Zodiac, Auto Focus, and Black Fire. SO CLOSE TO SHORE, SO FAR FROM FORTUNE. WITH THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD, THEY CAME. San Francisco, 1849. Some arrived by land, but most came by sea. From packet to clipper, the first steamers, and even a stolen paddlewheeler, ships of every kind poured in through the Golden Gate. Packed to the gills with passengers and bursting to the brim with valuable cargo, they crowded Yerba Buena Cove. The perfect harbor in every way except one fatal flaw—its shallow waters offered no passage to shore. Fever overtook even the heartiest of men. Passengers and crew alike jumped ship and swam ashore. Within sight of their prize destination, a thousand majestic vessels were left adrift. Each incapacitated vessel’s fate locked in by the next. Some dedicated captains remained aboard these derelict hulks, in a short time forming a fantastic floating city, Graveyard Harbor. Families, commerce, intrigue, and crime all thrived and died within its skeletal framework. Among them were captains held hostage by their own cargo, families that could not afford nor find housing on land, criminals hiding out from the law, and their pursuers hot on their heels. A LANDLOCKED CAPTAIN. A KILLER WHO LOOKED LIKE CHRIST. HIS UNFORTUNATE DOPPELGÄNGER. THE BLOODTHIRST OF SAN FRANCISCO’S FIRST VIGILANTE SOCIETY. AND THE TEXAS RANGER TURNED SAN FRANCISCO SHERIFF. WOULD CRIME, JUSTICE OR VIGILANTISM PREVAIL? Illustrations by the author.
Author : United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
ISBN : CORNELL:31924069242554
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1951-07
Category : Marine engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015338630
Author : Brian J. Cudahy
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0823212459
Ask the average American anywhere in the country to answer the association question "Staten Island" and you get "Ferry" in immediate response. what is regularly billed as "America's favorite boatride"- not least because a round trip still costs an astonishing twenty-five cents- is the last public survivor of New York Harbor's once immense fleet of those doughty double-ended ferryboats. Dozens of ferryboats in a myriad of liveries crossed the harbor's waterways as recently as one generation ago Most have vanished as though they never were, leaving in their ghostly wakes only fading memories and a few gorgeously restored ferry terminals. The handsomest of these terminals, on the New Jersey side of the Hudson, is probably the one dubbed by Christopher Morley the Piazza San Lackawanna. Over and Back captures definatively nearly two centuries of ferryboating in New York Harbor, by a master narrator of the history of transportation in America. In stories, charts, maps, photographs, diagrams, route lists, fleet rosters, and in the histories of some four hundred ferryboats, Brian J. Cudahy captures the whole tale as concisely as one could hope. The transportation expert, the ferry buff, the model builder, the urban historian: each will find grist for his or her mill. The photographs capture a highly significant footnote in America's past and present; the colored illustrations preserve some of the stylish rigs in which the owners garbed their boats, despite coal soot, oil smudge, and urban grime. Fully a third of the book comprises the most complete statistical compilation that the nation's public and private archives permit. The data show, among other things, that some of the former workhorses of New York Harbor are filling utilitarian or social roles elsewhere in the United States and overseas, and that the newest boats in the harbor began life along the Gulf of Mexico and in New England.