Posts Tagged ‘pier 35’
Monday, October 1st, 2012
How would you like to volunteer as a docent helping out with the new-school / old-school E-line on October 6-7, 2012?
First, some background about how busy the 415 will be this weekend:
“Looking at what’s scheduled for that weekend, there might not be room in the city for many more people, much less cars. First, there’s the free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park, a three-day event that drew about 800,000 people last year. That Sunday afternoon, the 49ers play the Buffalo Bills at Candlestick Park, while the Giants are hoping for weekend playoff games at AT&T Park, all guaranteed sellouts. About 60,000 people typically attend the Castro Street Fair, scheduled for that Sunday, while thousands more will jam North Beach for the annual Italian Heritage Parade at 12:30 on the same day. A different crowd will probably be at the Burning Man Decompression street fair, also that Sunday afternoon. To add to the fun, two mega cruise ships are expected to dock at Pier 35 over the weekend, disgorging thousands more tourists. Then, of course, there’s Fleet Week, which brings thousands of sailors and as many as a million visitors to the waterfront for the weekend.”
So you’ll be needed to help out all the visitors moving around on the Twin Torpedos, streetcars 1006 and 1008:
“We need several more docents to work the stops along the E-line on October 6 and 7, helping riders find the right platform and providing information about the service. We have docent books prepared by Paul Lucas, so it’s easy to learn what to do. If you’re interested, send us an email and we’ll get back to you.”
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Act now.
Tags: 1006, 1008, 49ers, airplanes, Americas Cup, at&t park, baseball, boats, Buffalo Bills, burning man, Burning Man Decompression, candlestick park, car, cars, Castro Street, Castro Street Fair, Conductor, cream, cruise, cruise ships, Decompression, docent, DPT, driver, drivers, Embacadero, fair, Festival, fleet week, football, free, giants, golden gate park, green, hardly strictly bluegrass, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, help, Italian Heritage Parade, jet, jets, marin, market, mta, Muni, navy, north beach, paint, painted, Paul Lucas, pier 35, playoff, playoffs, railway, regatta, ride, SFMTA, ships, street, streetcar, top, train, trolley, Twin Torpedos, volunteer, volunteers, white, world series
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Friday, February 17th, 2012
The P&O* Cruises Aurora was just in town up near Fishermans Wharf at Pier 35 South for part of her 2012 World Cruise.
But three of the passengers on this ship got busted for blow, deets here.
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*Peninsular and Oriental
Tags: 2012, 2012 World Cruise., Aurora, austrailia, australians, bay area, california, cocaine, cruise, Cruises, Embarcadero, fishermans wharf, hawaii, hawaiian, Hilo, Kirsty Harris, m/v, MV Aurora, new zealand, New Zealander, north point, passengers, pier 35, Pier 35 South, PO, police, port, San Francisco, south, street, sydney, Tony Earl Wilkinson, wharf, World Cruise.
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
Tags: 2012, 2012 World Cruise., Aurora, bay area, california, cruise, Cruises, Embarcadero, fishermans wharf, hawaii, hawaiian, Hilo, m/v, MV Aurora, north point, passengers, pier 35, Pier 35 South, PO, port, San Francisco, south, street, wharf, World Cruise.
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Monday, May 9th, 2011
Well this is what the first visit of the Disney Wonder cruise ship looked like last week when she sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge for the first time…
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… and this is what she looked like when berthed at Pier 35:
Via David Yu
Since then, she made it all the way to Canada, where a drydock appointment waits.
Making friends already up North:
(I won’t bother asking why San Francisco gets less than its fair share of cruise business and why the Wonder couldn’t have drydocked in the 415…)
Anyway, Bon Courage Disney Wonder!
(Come back when you can.)
Tags: 2011, alaska, bay area, boat, california, canada, cruise, Disney, dry dock, drydock, Embarcadero, fishermans wharf, los angeles, pier 35, port, San Francisco, ship, Vancouver, walt, waterfront, wisney wonder, wonder
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Photographer Eric Risberg must have still had the sleepers in his eyes this AM when he captured the new Cunard cruise ship Queen Victoria making her debut in San Francisco. Here’s how she looked going under the Golden Gate Bridge and past Alcatraz.
Look for her at the Pier 35 Cruise Ship Terminal (you know, the one that’s the most expensive to operate on the entire west coast, and that includes Canada, eh?)
How would you like to kill 107 days traveling the world? It would only cost $25k (and up):
Another dreary morn in San Francisco, via stevenseaweed
But here’s how she’ll look in sunny Lahaina, Maui:
And then, after Hawaii, she’ll be off to Cindy, Australia.
Bon Voyage, MSQV!
[UPDATE: And San Francisco’s Mayor was there – read what he had to say about Pier 27 after the jump.
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Tags: 2010, 27, 27th, Backlands, bar pilots, bay area, BONDS, cindy australia, cruise, cruise ship terminal, cunard, Executive Director, Golden Gate Bridge, hawaii, international, january, Line, liner, Mayor Gavin, Monique Moyer, Newsom, ocean, pier, Pier 27, pier 35, Pier 90-94, port, PORT OF SAN FRANCISCO, queen victoria, REVENUE BONDS, san francsco, ship
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Sunday, May 10th, 2009
Well here she is, straight outta Fort Lauderdale, Florida via the Panama Canal, “steeped with prestige and elegance,” it’s 965 foot long Celebrity Infinity. Now you’d think that it’d have been nice for her to have stopped at Huatulco, Puerto Vallarta, and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico as originally planned, but worries over the Swine Flu (2500 Americans alone, and counting) put the kibosh on that. Oh well.
Welcome passengers! Please empty your pockets and leave, as so many have done before you. (I keed. I keed because I love.) But seriously, stay as long as you’d like – go AWOL if you want. Just stay away from those darn exploding canisters. And stay away from the Internet that costs 50 cents per minute. Ouch.
A big boat that’s almost too much for our little city to handle:
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Tags: california, celebrity, coit tower, county, cruise, docked, fishermans wharf, flu, Golden Gate Bridge, H1N1, infinity, Line, marin, mexico, pier, Pier 27, pier 35, pier 37, San Francisco, swine, telegraph hill
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