Posts Tagged ‘port’
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
I don’t know, wouldn’t some SFPark meters look good right here, right where Port of San Francisco employees park their BMWs and Mercedes Benzeses for free all the live-long day at the north end of Davis?
You know, since market pricing is the rage ‘n stuff these days?
Yes, that’s BMW, BMW, BMW and Mercedes, Mercedes, Mercedes all in a row. Oh wait, some clown parked a Toyota right where a Port of San Francisco worker (average salary package well into the six figures) was going to park a Mercedes that we all paid for? Oh well. Let’s hope that Toyota got booted or towed with extreme prejudice by Auto Takeaway Return:
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SFPark Fever: Catch It
Tags: 2012, bay area, california, davis, free, market, mta, Muni, park, parking, port, Rate, San Francisco, sfgov, SFMTA, sfpark, street
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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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Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
This thing is straight outta Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, but it’s the biggest red-white-and-blue whatever that you’ll ever see:
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These days it’s just hanging out in the East Bay, looking for work, as many others are.
When will it be moved, when will it get used again?
Nobody knows…
Tags: 2011, barge, bay area, bay bridge, Blue, california, China, chinese, crane, east bay, floating, left coast lifter, Oakland, port, red, San Francisco, shanghai, west coast lifter, white, yello, Zhenhua Port Machinery Co., Zhenhua Port Machinery Co. of Shanghai, zpmc
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Monday, August 29th, 2011
Wow, this Longshoreman’s hook (or box hook, cargo hook, loading hook, or docker’s hook) just reaches out and says, “Don’t mess with Texas.”
Does it not?
Anyway, congrats, Local 10.
As seen on Market Street:
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(Who used a hook like this, you know, at the cinema? Was it Jason? I’m confused…)
Tags: 2010, 2011, award, bay area, california, hand, hook, ILWU, international, international longshore warehouse uunion, labor, local 10, local ten, logo, longshore, longshoreman, longshoreman's, market, Nightmare Fuel, Oakland, port, San Francisco, shirt, street, union, warehouse, workers
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Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Isn’t San Francisco’s green triangle of landfill over in the East Bay beautiful?
Why don’t we do something with it, like put in a casino or something? People’d take a ferry from Fishermans Wharf or South Beach.
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And think of the revenues from all those America’s Cup richers.
Tags: 2010, 2011, Alameda, angel island, Bay, bay area, bay bridge, border, california, casino, City, county, Dogpatch, green, island, Line, map, mission bay, nas, naval air station, Oakland, peninsula, port, red rock, San Francisco
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
Here it is a map showing the borders of San Francisco. And here’s the view of two East Bay peninsulas looking south from the Bay Bridge.
See? The nearer peninsula, the one with the big white crane, is part of the City of Oakland. It shows respect for the Alameda / San Francisco county border by stopping exactly where it should. But the farther one, part of the City of Alameda, simply juts all the way into San Francisco County.
How wude!
Here’s the borderline:
Anyway, it’s our land but it’s in the East Bay.
Somehow.
All the deets:
“Looking eastward from Twin Peaks, San Francisco. That’s Mission Bay / Dogpatch in the foreground with Oakland in the background.
Here’s your first choice. Does this line represent the border betwixt the counties?
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And here’s your second, with the westernmost portion of Alameda in the City and County of San Francisco:
And here’s your third choice, right down the channel:
And here’s your answer, it’s photo #2, for some odd reason.
Now, you Better Know the Bay Area.
Thanks for playing!”
Tags: 2010, 2011, Alameda, angel island, Bay, bay area, bay bridge, border, california, City, county, Dogpatch, island, Line, map, mission bay, nas, naval air station, Oakland, peninsula, port, red rock, San Francisco
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Here’s how you know when a relationship over, when your supposed beau says something like:
“I’d be happy to introduce you to other men not in this immediate area, or facilitate a conversation with men in the City, or perhaps a matchmaking service. I’ll email you their phone number or something.”
That’s it, it’s over, baby. HJNTIY.
So imagine how the hard-working people at highly-rated Teatro Zinzanni feel about their coming eviction to make way for the NASCAR-esque, tradition-be-damned America’s Cup 2013, aka Larry Ellison’s boat race.
Here’s what the Port of San Francisco is saying about the sitch:
“We’d be happy to show them locations that are not in this immediate area, or facilitate a conversation with other city departments or commercial real estate agents.”
Or, in other words, GO TO HELL.
Anyway, put Teatro Zinzanni at the top of your Bucket List right now, before it goes away.
Ooh, backstage:
Ooh, bobbles!
To sum up:
Boo, America’s Cup Eurotrash
Yay, Teatro Zinzanni
Tags: 2011, Americas Cup, bay area, california, dinner, larry ellison, pier, port, San Francisco, show, Teatro, Teatro ZinZanni, tent, Theatro, wharf, zinnzani, ZinZanni
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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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Friday, December 17th, 2010
Here’s the view, filled with direct-from-China ISO standard shipping containers, direct-from-China freighters* and the legs of the iconic direct-from-China AT-AT Imperial Walker ship cranes:
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Giant boxes in the harbor
Giant boxes made of aluminum**
Giant boxes, giant boxes
Giant boxes, all the same
There’s a green one and a red one
And a blue one and a purple one
And they’re all made out of aluminum**
And they all look just the same
*Which hardly ever crash into the Bay Bridge and leak bunker fuel all over the place
**Or steel
A.P. Moller-Maersk Group 2,045,776545 Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. 1,638,962414 CMA CGM 1,100,007384 American President Lines 589,879147 Evergreen Marine Corporation 554,725152 Hapag-Lloyd 541,811124 COSCO 498,437134 CSAV 469,428128 Hanjin Shipping 448,05198 China Shipping Container Lines 440,236122 NYK Line 365,03495 Mitsui O.S.K. Lines 363,18894 Orient Overseas Container Line 353,33877 Hamburg Süd 338,778109 Zim Integrated Shipping Services 322,68596 K Line 318,19382 Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation 313,37977 Hyundai Merchant Marine 271,60452 Pacific International Lines 227,649126 UASC 199,08250
Tags: 2010, Alameda, bay area, Blue, boxes, california, China, container, county, giant, green, Imperial Walker, iso, little, Oakland, port, red, San Francisco, ship, Shipping, tiny, weeds
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