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Bay Crossings Round-Up
Governor Announces $5 Million for
Stricken Tourism Industry
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| Governor
Gray Davis announcing $5 million for energized advertising
efforts to reinvigorate tourism, flanked by Mayor Willie L.
Brown, Jr. of San Francisco and Assemblyman Kevin Shelley.
Shelley worked his way through college working on the ferryboats
of the Red & White Fleet. |
Governor Gray Davis came
to Fishermen’s Wharf this month to announce $5 million in redirected
funding for promotion and advertising designed to attract locals. The
hope is to fill the gap created by folks from further away who are
choosing to not travel just now.
Eight out of ten visitors to San Francisco
make it onto a ferryboat, so it was only fitting that the event took
place at Fishermen’s Wharf. In response to a question asking if the
important role ferries played in the rescue efforts after the World
Trade Center terrorist attacks has served to increase the importance of
ferries in his mind, the Governor replied, "I didn’t need a
terrorist attack to remind me how important ferries are. I got $12
million to study a comprehensive regional ferry plan by creating the WTA".
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| Tom
Escher, President of the Red & White fleet, scion of the
Crowley maritime family and Fishermen’s Wharf fixture.
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Lon
S. Hatamiya (right), Secretary of the California Technology, Trade
and Commerce Agency, the state agency overseeing the California
Tourism Bureau, assigned the responsibility by Governor Davis of
spurring tourism promotions. |
It Ain’t All Glamour Being an
Editor
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| Hot
shot editor Bobby Winston displaying his true talents in front
of Red’s Java Hut on San Francisco’s Embarcadero. |
Bay Crossings doesn’t
have the luxury of a large staff, and glamorous lunches like the one we
hosted this month for our cover subjects are the definite exception.
Usually, it’s more like this: the editor delivering the papers
himself.
Stricter standards for
newspaper racks – and our own determination to put the best possible
foot forward – prompt us to steam clean our racks every month. Getting
the paper to the over 80 locations we now maintain all over the Bay
takes about 20 hours of dirty, hard work. But the views are terrific.
Celebrating the New San
Francisco Ferry Terminal
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| Bay
Crossings editor Bobby Winston shares a trenchant thought with
Kimberly Brandon, President of the San Francisco Port
Commission. |
Before taking our cover shot for
this month’s issue, Bay Crossings hosted a lunch at the Waterfront
Restaurant for subjects Boris Dramov, head of Roma Design Group and the
visionary behind much of what is now the waterside Foot of Market, including
the new Ferry Terminal and Kimberly Brandon, President of the San Francisco
Port Commission.
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| Proud
Mama: Nieret "Nita" Mizushima, Chief Port Engineer for
the Port of San Francisco and project manager for the new Ferry
Terminal, delighted to have the first phase behind her. |
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| Even
planners can have fun. Left to right: Lisa Klairmont, Executive
Secretary of the the Water Transit Authority, Boris Dramov of
Roma Design Group and Reneé Dunn, Manager for Public Relations
at the Port of San Francisco. |
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