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BC August 2006.Indd BBAYAYCCROSSINGSROSSINGS 2 August 2006 BAYCROSSINGS www.baycrossings.com Voted Best Restaurant 4 Years Running Lunch & Dinner Daily Banquets Corporate Events www.scomas.com (415)771-4383 Fisherman’s Wharf on Pier 47 Foot of Jones on Jefferson Street Golden Gate Sausalito & lunch for the Alameda/Oakland Ferry’s every other Friday! office Alameda/Oakland Ferry bunch friday, august 25 $550 The ever-popular Lunch for the Office Bunch returns every other Friday Jules Broussard round trip begining Friday, August 25 onboard the Alameda/Oakland & Golden Gate Region’s favorite sax man Sausalito Ferry. Start your weekend on an upbeat note... bring your lunch or snack from our full bar onboard. kicks off the series! Sausalito Ferry departs promptly from behind Golden Gate Sausalito Ferry friday, september 8 the San Francisco Ferry Building at 11:35 am $675 and returns 12:45 pm. 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Moday, Editor San Francisco ADVERTISING & MARKETING Convention & Visitors Joel Williams, Advertising & Marketing Director Eric Shatin, Advertising Sales Bureau Presents GRAPHICS & PRODUCTION Francisco Arreola, Designer / Web Producer Marketing Plan for ART DIRECTION Francisco Arreola; Michelle R. Moday City’s $7.37 Billion STAFF WRITERS & EDITORIAL Dianne Boate & Robert Meyer, Libations; Tourism Industry Patrick Burnson, Book Editor; Bill Picture, News & Features; Mary E. Shacklett, Technology; Guy Span, SP; Joel Williams, Brew Review The San Francisco Convention & Visitors CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Kristen Bole; Denise Dohogne; John Goodwin, Bureau (SFCVB) will present its sales and Kimmie Haworth; Scott Hargis; Brenda Kahn; marketing plan for fi scal year 2006/2007 Alex Kolovyansky; Ed & Pam McGrath; Mark Mazzaferro; Dan Sankey in a special briefi ng for SFCVB members ACCOUNTING on Tuesday, Aug. 1 from 8 to 10AM at Cindy Henderson the Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco, 600 DISTRIBUTION Stockton St. Franz the Man; Marine Marketing; Reliable Distribution Newly appointed SFCVB President & CEO Joe D’Alessandro and the Subscribe: By mail: $35 / year (12 monthly issues) Bureau’s top executive staff will present Online: www.baycrossings.com/subscribe.asp the Bureau’s programs for 2006-2007. Advertising Inquiries: “Our members represent all the (707) 556-3323, [email protected] potential experiences and businesses Museum Plans for Presidential Battleship Bay Crossings that visitors seek,” D’Alessandro said. Ferry Building, #22 USS Iowa Docked at Vallejo’s Waterfront San Francisco, CA 94111 “We are only effective when we work A Division of Nematode Media, LLC as a team, and we will continue to work closely with our members to make San Francisco the destination of choice.” Corrections & Letters ferry), Marine World Vallejo and Napa Please send comments, letters or requests for The $15 registration fee includes BY JAMES FISHER Wine Country. Also, Vallejo is uniquely corrections to [email protected] a continental breakfast and materials. qualifi ed due to its proximity to IOWA’s Attendees will receive a printed copy of f non-profi t group Historic Ships current location in the Benicia mothball the marketing plan, which details how the Memorial at Pacifi c Square has its fl eet and, more importantly, to the Mare Bureau will market San Francisco in the way, Vallejo Baylink Ferry riders Island Naval Shipyard with its rich Naval upcoming fi scal year. Speakers will also may soon be treated to views of heritage. elaborate on trends in the convention, the battleship USS Iowa as they According to Merylin Wong, President leisure travel and international markets. arrive at the Vallejo ferry building. The and Director of Historic Ships, the IOWA Participants can register by contacting I group has been working to obtain the would stimulate the Bay Area economy, Sarika Patel at (415) 227-2666 or IOWA to create a museum for the last provide educational opportunities email [email protected] or online at 10 years, and is now backing a proposal with various institutions including the www.sfvisitor.org/memberinfo/htlm/ to berth the IOWA at the now closed California Maritime Academy in Vallejo, EventCalendar.html. Mare Island Naval Shipyard, just across and could serve as a command center in the Mare Island channel from downtown the event of a disaster. Vallejo. Support for berthing the IOWA IOWA was originally slated to go to in Vallejo has come from the Vallejo Visit and shop the In future issues of San Francisco, but plans changed when City Council, residents of the Bay Bay Crossings the San Francisco City Council declined Area who have signed petitions and Bay Crossings store! support for berthing the ship. Historic civic and veteran’s groups throughout Magazine... Ships Memorial then selected Vallejo surrounding Bay Area counties. No tax Located at the as the preferred location for the IOWA. dollars are involved in the proposal. center of the The City of Stockton is also preparing a Funding will come from private and SEPTEMBER Harvest proposal to submit to the Navy to berth corporate donations and admission fees Ferry Building the Iowa. to the museum. Marketplace OCTOBER History Supporters of the museum plan In July 2006, Mark Mazzaferro, believe Mare Island, Vallejo is the ideal site public information offi cer/spokesman, NOVEMBER Game on due to its central Bay Area location, which City of Vallejo, sent an email in response is within easy reach of San Francisco (by for comment on behalf of Vallejo Mayor www.baycrossings.com BAYCROSSINGS August 2006 7 WATERFRONT VIEWS Anthony J Intintoli. It stated that Vallejo In order to convince the Navy to enthusiastically supports the museum berth the IOWA at Vallejo, Historic plan but was “not in the position to offer Ships Memorial is seeking letters of fi nancial support, now, in the foreseeable support and monetary donations. future. Letters and donations may be “Having an historic symbol such sent to Historic Ships Memorial as the Iowa at Mare Island would be at Pacific Square, P.O. Box 361, a wonderful addition to the tourism Vallejo, CA 94590. You can learn opportunities already in place in the City more about the IOWA at its web and the region,” Inintoli said, “The rich site, www.battleshipIowa.org naval history of Mare Island makes for a perfect setting for a highly decorated ship. Force One of its day, transporting our its newest FDR site. Vallejo would be the Hopefully, the Historic Ships effort will nation’s only four-term and handicapped only city with a fl oating Presidential site at result in signifi cant fund-raising needed President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, its waterfront. to make bringing the Iowa to Vallejo a to the Tehran Conference to meet with During her six decades of service, reality, and we applaud their efforts.” Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. USS IOWA came to the Bay Area for a USS IOWA is the namesake of The IOWA is the only U.S. Naval ship variety of reasons – repairs, maintenance, the most powerful and fastest class of with a bathtub, installed to accommodate overhaul, dry-dock, decommissioning and battleships ever built by the American President Roosevelt on his historic cruise. recommissioning ceremonies. people. It has teak decks and armor USS IOWA was present at the On April 20, 2001, USS IOWA plating 16 inches thick, is three football ceremony marking the end of World War arrived in the Bay Area to join the Suisun fields long, and has a displacement of II and communicated the events of that Bay Reserve Fleet (a.k.a. Mothball fl eet), in 58,000 tons. Built in 1943 at a cost of day when world peace was achieved. The Benicia, where it is today, awaiting a fi nal $120 million, the ship served as the Air Roosevelt Institute has named USS IOWA call of duty.
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