Entries from SFist tagged with 'captainjohn'
January 17, 2008
December 14, 2007
Meet the Board of Pilot Commissioners For the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun...
Continue Reading "Meet Your Local San Francisco Bar Pilot Commission"June 20, 2007
Who knew that one of the five islands in San Francisco Bay was privately owned? Even stranger, "Red Rock Island" is now up for sale, for a paltry $10 million. The last time we remember one of our islands changing hands was way back in 1847, when Captain John C Fremont bought Alcatraz for $5000. Fremont was in town, as you no doubt remember, as the head of a surveying expedition. A man of......
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