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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This week’s episode of the Bay Curious podcast explores why between 30 and 60 ships are buried in San Francisco — sometimes half a mile or more from the modern-day coastline. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District, you can grab a drink at the Old Ship Saloon. Owner Bill Duffy says the bar opened in 1851 inside the hull of the Arkansas, a ship that now lies in the dirt below the bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who wanted to go to the bar would have to get up this plank and in through the side of the ship,” says Duffy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Arkansas is one of 30 to 60 ships buried under the city. Some are marked with above-ground plaques, but many go completely unrecognized — a ghost fleet beneath your feet. Which brings us to the question:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why are there ships under San Francisco?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most of the buried ships lie under the Financial District and the Embarcadero — two of the city’s flattest neighborhoods. In a city known for its hills, you’d hardly know it taking a walk from the Embarcadero to the Transamerica Building.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n“You can find the original shoreline by using your feet,” says Kevin Boyd, senior science writer at the Exploratorium, where an exhibit called “The Changing Shoreline of San Francisco” is currently on display. “As soon as you find yourself heading uphill at any significant degree, you can be pretty sure you’re close to the early shoreline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But why did the shoreline change? And how did the ships get buried there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10982521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3888px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10982521 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/443335464_c1f732e300_o.jpg\" alt=\"The Old Ship Saloon opened in 1851 and operated out of the hull of the Arkansas (Credit: Jennifer Woodard Madera)\" width=\"3888\" height=\"2592\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/443335464_c1f732e300_o.jpg 3888w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/443335464_c1f732e300_o-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/443335464_c1f732e300_o-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/443335464_c1f732e300_o-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/443335464_c1f732e300_o-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/443335464_c1f732e300_o-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3888px) 100vw, 3888px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Old Ship Saloon opened in 1851 and operated out of the hull of the Arkansas (Jennifer Woodard Madera)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco in 1848 was a small town of a few hundred. But the discovery of gold that year had a pretty big impact. The small town became a city,” says James Delgado, a maritime archaeologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and author of “\u003ca href=\"http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520255807\">Gold Rush Port.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After gold was discovered, ships pregnant with people and goods poured into the Bay Area. They dropped anchor in the deeper waters offshore, somewhere below today’s Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once moored, many of the ships never set sail again. Some vessels had arrived to the Gold Coast in a decrepit state, the owners knowingly sending the ships to the bay on their last voyage. Other ships simply had trouble leaving once sailors caught gold fever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10982724\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10982724 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Clipper-California-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"An advertisement for a line of ships bringing passengers to the Gold Rush.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Clipper-California-800x500.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Clipper-California-400x250.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Clipper-California-1920x1200.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Clipper-California-1180x738.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Clipper-California-960x600.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An advertisement for a line of ships bringing passengers to the Gold Rush.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There were large numbers of desertions, in some cases even officers,” says Delgado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The harbor became clogged as the number of ships climbed near 1,000. As the mass grew, the ships became a greater nuisance. Many of the ships had to have their rigging taken down in order to avoid entanglement with neighboring vessels. Contemporary observers often referred to it as a “forest of masts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the ships were stationed offshore in deep water, goods had to be slogged across half a mile of the shallow, muddy tidal flats. Merchants had to pay workers handsomely to forget about their gold fever and accept the job of a porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10981646\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10981646 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Ship-in-the-Bay-800x643.jpg\" alt=\"The waterfront in 1851 (San Francisco Maritime Museum National Historical Park)\" width=\"800\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Ship-in-the-Bay-800x643.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Ship-in-the-Bay-400x321.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Ship-in-the-Bay.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The waterfront in 1851. (Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum National Historical Park)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, politicians devised a solution to lessen these hefty expenses: bring the shoreline closer to deep water. The city began selling water lots out in the bay on the condition that buyers fill them in with land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order to secure the title, you would put real property on it,” says Delgado. “You could drive pilings and build a fence around it. But the easiest, cheapest way was to do that with a ship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Land in Gold Rush-era San Francisco was incredibly valuable and people tried to secure these water lots any way they could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you scuttled your ship, you could claim the land under it as part of your salvage,” says Richard Everett, curator of the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10991294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10991294\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Buried-Ships-Map-800x552.jpg\" alt=\"A map of the buried ships under San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Buried-Ships-Map-800x552.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Buried-Ships-Map-400x276.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Buried-Ships-Map.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Buried-Ships-Map-1180x814.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Buried-Ships-Map-960x662.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of the buried ships under San Francisco. \u003ccite>(San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some men used this technicality to lay claim to other people’s lots. They were known as the “hulk undertakers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the dead of night, they would sail ships over valuable lots, unplug holes drilled into the ship’s keel and \u003cem>conveniently\u003c/em> lose the vessel on the spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were actual open wars. One day the captain of the hulk undertakers was in the midst of giving a command when a wharf employee fired a shot at him. His mouth was open, he was yelling, and the bullet passed through one cheek and out the other, missing his tongue and his teeth. To the end of his days he wore a beard to cover those two scars on either side of his mouth,” says Delgado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides land, San Francisco also needed buildings. Because the city grew so rapidly and lumber was expensive to mill, many of the early buildings were constructed of canvas tents. One visitor described San Francisco as a magic lantern city at night, because the tents covering the hillsides would glow from within. While this may have been picturesque, the residents wanted more permanent structures, so they turned to the ships in the harbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The junker ships were taken to “Rotten Row,” where Charles Hare and the local Chinese community systematically broke down hundreds of ships. The wood and metal were recycled into building materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 200 of the nicer ships were easily turned into permanent structures. The majority were used as warehouses but other ships became hotels, offices, bars, counting houses, restaurants, auction halls, banks, cafes and a church. Even the city jail moved onto a ship once the old one became overcrowded and worn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10991250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10991250 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Library-of-Congress-e1466110626769-800x577.jpg\" alt=\"An illustration of early San Francisco where old ships were converted into buildings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Library-of-Congress-e1466110626769-800x577.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Library-of-Congress-e1466110626769-400x288.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Library-of-Congress-e1466110626769.jpg 896w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration of early San Francisco, where old ships were converted into buildings. \u003ccite>(Library of Congress)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“One of the prisoners actually was said to have taken the door off its hinges and carried it on his back to make a show and to demand that the jailer feed him because the jailer had skipped a meal,” says Delgado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As lots of water was filled and the city expanded into the bay, many of the floating buildings found themselves surrounded by land, sitting along city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then there were a series of fires. The biggest blaze ripped through the city on May 4, 1851. It took out about 20 city blocks and destroyed more than a thousand buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was the giant fire that took out most of the waterfront. Many of the ships burned down to their water lines,” says Everett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10982523\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 796px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10982523 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/San-Francisco-Fire-e1465404430865.jpg\" alt=\"A print depicting the San Francisco Fire in May 1851. Losses allegedly totaled $20,000,000 (Courtesy of the De Young Legion of Honor)\" width=\"796\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/San-Francisco-Fire-e1465404430865.jpg 796w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/San-Francisco-Fire-e1465404430865-400x282.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A print depicting the San Francisco Fire in May 1851. Losses allegedly totaled $20,000,000 (Courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s Permanent Collection )\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dozens of ships stayed behind, and remain firmly anchored in what today is the Financial District or Embarcadero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city forgot about the ships. One by one, they’ve been built over. Nowadays, we barely think about the hulks lying just under our feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is, until we have to lay a new foundation or dig a fresh tunnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1994, Muni was digging a light-rail tunnel beneath Justin Herman Plaza on the Embarcadero when workers hit a ship — the Rome. The vessel was so huge they literally had to tunnel through. Now, thousands of riders on J, K, L, M, N and T trains unknowingly ride through its hull every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to the Bay Curious podcast on \u003ca href=\"https://tunein.com/radio/Bay-Curious-p989263/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tune In\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTunes\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR One\u003c/a>, or wherever you get your podcasts.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This week’s episode of the Bay Curious podcast explores why between 30 and 60 ships are buried in San Francisco — sometimes half a mile or more from the modern-day coastline. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District, you can grab a drink at the Old Ship Saloon. Owner Bill Duffy says the bar opened in 1851 inside the hull of the Arkansas, a ship that now lies in the dirt below the bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who wanted to go to the bar would have to get up this plank and in through the side of the ship,” says Duffy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Arkansas is one of 30 to 60 ships buried under the city. Some are marked with above-ground plaques, but many go completely unrecognized — a ghost fleet beneath your feet. Which brings us to the question:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why are there ships under San Francisco?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most of the buried ships lie under the Financial District and the Embarcadero — two of the city’s flattest neighborhoods. In a city known for its hills, you’d hardly know it taking a walk from the Embarcadero to the Transamerica Building.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n“You can find the original shoreline by using your feet,” says Kevin Boyd, senior science writer at the Exploratorium, where an exhibit called “The Changing Shoreline of San Francisco” is currently on display. “As soon as you find yourself heading uphill at any significant degree, you can be pretty sure you’re close to the early shoreline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But why did the shoreline change? And how did the ships get buried there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10982521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3888px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10982521 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/443335464_c1f732e300_o.jpg\" alt=\"The Old Ship Saloon opened in 1851 and operated out of the hull of the Arkansas (Credit: Jennifer Woodard Madera)\" width=\"3888\" height=\"2592\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/443335464_c1f732e300_o.jpg 3888w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/443335464_c1f732e300_o-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/443335464_c1f732e300_o-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/443335464_c1f732e300_o-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/443335464_c1f732e300_o-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/443335464_c1f732e300_o-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3888px) 100vw, 3888px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Old Ship Saloon opened in 1851 and operated out of the hull of the Arkansas (Jennifer Woodard Madera)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco in 1848 was a small town of a few hundred. But the discovery of gold that year had a pretty big impact. The small town became a city,” says James Delgado, a maritime archaeologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and author of “\u003ca href=\"http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520255807\">Gold Rush Port.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After gold was discovered, ships pregnant with people and goods poured into the Bay Area. They dropped anchor in the deeper waters offshore, somewhere below today’s Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once moored, many of the ships never set sail again. Some vessels had arrived to the Gold Coast in a decrepit state, the owners knowingly sending the ships to the bay on their last voyage. Other ships simply had trouble leaving once sailors caught gold fever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10982724\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10982724 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Clipper-California-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"An advertisement for a line of ships bringing passengers to the Gold Rush.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Clipper-California-800x500.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Clipper-California-400x250.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Clipper-California-1920x1200.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Clipper-California-1180x738.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Clipper-California-960x600.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An advertisement for a line of ships bringing passengers to the Gold Rush.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There were large numbers of desertions, in some cases even officers,” says Delgado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The harbor became clogged as the number of ships climbed near 1,000. As the mass grew, the ships became a greater nuisance. Many of the ships had to have their rigging taken down in order to avoid entanglement with neighboring vessels. Contemporary observers often referred to it as a “forest of masts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the ships were stationed offshore in deep water, goods had to be slogged across half a mile of the shallow, muddy tidal flats. 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(Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum National Historical Park)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, politicians devised a solution to lessen these hefty expenses: bring the shoreline closer to deep water. The city began selling water lots out in the bay on the condition that buyers fill them in with land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order to secure the title, you would put real property on it,” says Delgado. “You could drive pilings and build a fence around it. But the easiest, cheapest way was to do that with a ship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Land in Gold Rush-era San Francisco was incredibly valuable and people tried to secure these water lots any way they could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you scuttled your ship, you could claim the land under it as part of your salvage,” says Richard Everett, curator of the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10991294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10991294\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Buried-Ships-Map-800x552.jpg\" alt=\"A map of the buried ships under San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Buried-Ships-Map-800x552.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Buried-Ships-Map-400x276.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Buried-Ships-Map.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Buried-Ships-Map-1180x814.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Buried-Ships-Map-960x662.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of the buried ships under San Francisco. \u003ccite>(San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some men used this technicality to lay claim to other people’s lots. They were known as the “hulk undertakers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the dead of night, they would sail ships over valuable lots, unplug holes drilled into the ship’s keel and \u003cem>conveniently\u003c/em> lose the vessel on the spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were actual open wars. One day the captain of the hulk undertakers was in the midst of giving a command when a wharf employee fired a shot at him. His mouth was open, he was yelling, and the bullet passed through one cheek and out the other, missing his tongue and his teeth. To the end of his days he wore a beard to cover those two scars on either side of his mouth,” says Delgado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides land, San Francisco also needed buildings. Because the city grew so rapidly and lumber was expensive to mill, many of the early buildings were constructed of canvas tents. One visitor described San Francisco as a magic lantern city at night, because the tents covering the hillsides would glow from within. While this may have been picturesque, the residents wanted more permanent structures, so they turned to the ships in the harbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The junker ships were taken to “Rotten Row,” where Charles Hare and the local Chinese community systematically broke down hundreds of ships. The wood and metal were recycled into building materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 200 of the nicer ships were easily turned into permanent structures. The majority were used as warehouses but other ships became hotels, offices, bars, counting houses, restaurants, auction halls, banks, cafes and a church. Even the city jail moved onto a ship once the old one became overcrowded and worn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10991250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10991250 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Library-of-Congress-e1466110626769-800x577.jpg\" alt=\"An illustration of early San Francisco where old ships were converted into buildings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Library-of-Congress-e1466110626769-800x577.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Library-of-Congress-e1466110626769-400x288.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Library-of-Congress-e1466110626769.jpg 896w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration of early San Francisco, where old ships were converted into buildings. \u003ccite>(Library of Congress)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“One of the prisoners actually was said to have taken the door off its hinges and carried it on his back to make a show and to demand that the jailer feed him because the jailer had skipped a meal,” says Delgado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As lots of water was filled and the city expanded into the bay, many of the floating buildings found themselves surrounded by land, sitting along city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then there were a series of fires. The biggest blaze ripped through the city on May 4, 1851. It took out about 20 city blocks and destroyed more than a thousand buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was the giant fire that took out most of the waterfront. Many of the ships burned down to their water lines,” says Everett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10982523\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 796px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10982523 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/San-Francisco-Fire-e1465404430865.jpg\" alt=\"A print depicting the San Francisco Fire in May 1851. 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Nowadays, we barely think about the hulks lying just under our feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is, until we have to lay a new foundation or dig a fresh tunnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1994, Muni was digging a light-rail tunnel beneath Justin Herman Plaza on the Embarcadero when workers hit a ship — the Rome. The vessel was so huge they literally had to tunnel through. Now, thousands of riders on J, K, L, M, N and T trains unknowingly ride through its hull every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to the Bay Curious podcast on \u003ca href=\"https://tunein.com/radio/Bay-Curious-p989263/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tune In\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTunes\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR One\u003c/a>, or wherever you get your podcasts.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This week the Bay Curious podcast is celebrating our one-year anniversary with a lightning round of questions and answers!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is it true that George Lucas was inspired to create the AT-AT because of the cranes at the Port of Oakland?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No. Sadly, this is not true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Lucas \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Nah-dude-they-weren-t-cranes-they-were-garbage-3279459.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the San Francisco Chronicle’s Peter Hartlaub\u003c/a>, “That’s a myth. That is definitely a myth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hartlaub also followed up with Phil Tippett, the stop-motion animator who oversaw production of the AT-AT sequence. Tippett allows for a small chance that somewhere in the process someone looked at the cranes, but added that the original vehicles actually looked nothing like container cranes, and more like garbage trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sidenote on Phil Tippett: He was credited as “Dinosaur Supervisor” at the end of “Jurassic Park” and has been the \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/scottybryan/the-dinosaur-supervisor-on-jurassic-park-has-the-perfect-res?utm_term=.qbrA6VbwXd#.heZN2kMOdE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">topic of several popular internet memes\u003c/a>. 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It was around this time that people began calling the area the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did it get the name? Was it a reference to the “tender loins” of prostitutes who did business there? Or maybe something to do with the shape of the neighborhood?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No. According to the Tenderloin Museum, the name came from a New York City police captain named Alexander Williams who supposedly called vice-heavy areas the “tenderloin”, in reference to all the bribes he would get for turning a blind eye to illegal activities. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Question submitted by Bay Curious listener Matteen Mokalla. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11629443 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-800x452.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-800x452.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-1020x576.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-1180x666.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-960x542.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-240x136.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-375x212.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-520x294.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398.png 1498w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How did the Tenderloin get its name?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the mid-1800s the Tenderloin was a great spot to spend a night out on the town, but by the late 1800s, crime had crept into the neighborhood. It was around this time that people began calling the area the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did it get the name? Was it a reference to the “tender loins” of prostitutes who did business there? Or maybe something to do with the shape of the neighborhood?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No. According to the Tenderloin Museum, the name came from a New York City police captain named Alexander Williams who supposedly called vice-heavy areas the “tenderloin”, in reference to all the bribes he would get for turning a blind eye to illegal activities. Williams was quoted as saying, “I’ve had nothing but chuck steak for a long time, and now I’m going to get a little of the tenderloin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hoped to buy nicer meat with his bribe money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Question submitted by Bay Curious listener Kevin Beach. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/i8O0PwGSoO0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/i8O0PwGSoO0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>Is it true that the original voice of Popeye died in a San Jose trailer park?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes. The gruff voice of William Costello was the original voice of Popeye the Sailor Man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the show’s producers wanted a softer voice for Popeye, and Costello was becoming difficult to work with. One day, while the show was in the middle of production, Costello asked for a vacation and he was fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, Costello had a long career as a musician. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>It’s the Bay Curious podcast’s one-year anniversary! To celebrate, we’re answering four questions in one episode. So buckle up.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone who has driven between San Francisco and Marin on Highway 101 in the past half-century has made the journey underneath a rainbow, regardless of the weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Schimm often rode through what was then known as the Waldo Tunnel (named after 19th century California politician William Waldo) just north of the Golden Gate Bridge when she was a kid growing up in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a kid, my dad worked in San Francisco, and the rainbow tunnel was kind of the first landmark associated with the city,” says Schimm, who now lives in New York City. “Going through the tunnel, we’d always be chanting, ‘Rainbow tunnel! Rainbow tunnel!’ and I remember asking my parents, ‘Why does it have the rainbow on it?’ and neither of them could answer the question.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629439\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27935_Rainbow-Tunnel-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11629439\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27935_Rainbow-Tunnel-2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27935_Rainbow-Tunnel-2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27935_Rainbow-Tunnel-2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27935_Rainbow-Tunnel-2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27935_Rainbow-Tunnel-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27935_Rainbow-Tunnel-2-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27935_Rainbow-Tunnel-2-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27935_Rainbow-Tunnel-2-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27935_Rainbow-Tunnel-2-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27935_Rainbow-Tunnel-2-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The rainbow paint on the tunnel between Marin and San Francisco on Highway 101 was the brainchild of Caltrans public affairs officer Robert Halligan Sr. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the California Department of Transportation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All these years later, the tunnel has a new name — the Robin Williams Tunnel — but Schimm is still looking for an answer:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Why are there rainbows painted on the tunnel and who painted them?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Anniversary Bonus Question\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[Atat]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Is it true that George Lucas was inspired to create the AT-AT because of the cranes at the Port of Oakland?\u003c/strong> Get the answer in our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/09/bay-curious-lighting-round-inspiration-for-at-ats-the-tenderloin-and-popeyes-voice/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lightning round post!\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The story starts in the 1960s with a guy named Robert Halligan Sr. driving through what was, at the time, some drab-looking concrete tunnels between San Francisco and Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dad commuted there every single day,” says Robert Halligan Jr. The Halligans lived in Marinwood at the time, and Halligan Sr. thought it would be great if there was something a little nicer to welcome commuters driving back to the North Bay at the end of the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Halligan Sr. was not your average commuter. He was also the public affairs officer with the California Department of Transportation, and he had a flair for the creative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the Bay Area was opening a lot of new freeways, and Halligan Sr. put his creative mind to work. His son says he had a Silicon Valley robot clip the ribbon at one ceremony and had a local traffic helicopter drive through the ribbon at another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was also the time — the 1960s and ’70s — when highway planners were thinking a lot about the aesthetics and design of the roads they were laying down. Californians were spending a lot of time on the roads, and people thought it would be nice if those roads were a little more beautiful.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch3>Anniversary Bonus Question\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11629443 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-800x452.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-800x452.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-1020x576.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-1180x666.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-960x542.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-240x136.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-375x212.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-520x294.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398.png 1498w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>How did the Tenderloin get its name?\u003c/strong> Was it a reference to the “tender loins” of prostitutes who did business there? Or maybe something to do with the shape of the neighborhood? Get the answer in our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/09/bay-curious-lighting-round-inspiration-for-at-ats-the-tenderloin-and-popeyes-voice/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lightning round post!\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So when Halligan Sr. proposed painting rainbows at the entrance to the tunnels in Marin, his colleagues said they were on board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rainbow tunnels were simply part of that kind of experience, trying to improve the aesthetics of concrete in people’s lives,” Halligan Jr. said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it wasn’t just their colorful presence that made rainbows the right choice. Halligan Jr. says the half-circle shape of the tunnel openings made a rainbow “naturally conducive” to the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the rainbows first went up, most residents loved them, but a few hated the new paint job. The two sides battled it out in the Letters to the Editor page of the San Rafael Daily Independent Journal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a disfiguration of the landscape and an insult to the quiet beauty of this entire county,” wrote Dr. and Mrs. Alan J. Davidson of Mill Valley on Nov. 3, 1970. “The pastels of Cartoonland should be confined to the Sunday funnies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Did a muse, en route to an appointment with Andy Warhol, veer off course and land in the Division of Highways? Let us be grateful for an inspired treatment of dull, gray concrete!” countered Lewis W. Stewart of San Anselmo on Nov. 10, 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 494px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27930_Tunnel-Clips-Combined.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11629432\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27930_Tunnel-Clips-Combined.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27930_Tunnel-Clips-Combined.jpg 494w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27930_Tunnel-Clips-Combined-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27930_Tunnel-Clips-Combined-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27930_Tunnel-Clips-Combined-375x269.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents debated the new rainbow design on the Waldo Tunnel in letters to the editor in San Rafael’s Daily Independent Journal in 1970.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My dad used to say if it’s not controversial, it’s not art,” Halligan Jr. said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he didn’t stop caring about his controversial artwork. When it came time to give the rainbow a new paint job, Halligan Sr. was not impressed with the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Anniversary Bonus Question\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8O0PwGSoO0&w=560&h=315]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Is it true that the original voice of Popeye died in a San Jose trailer park?\u003c/strong> Get the answer in our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/09/bay-curious-lighting-round-inspiration-for-at-ats-the-tenderloin-and-popeyes-voice/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lightning round post!\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“My dad looked at them and said, ‘Oh my God, they repainted them the faded colors,’ ” Halligan Jr. said. “So they had to go back and repaint them the original bright colors you see today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Halligan Sr. considered the rainbow tunnels to be one of the best things he accomplished during his career. When he died in 1999, the San Francisco Chronicle even mentioned them in his obituary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a simple man,” Halligan Jr. said, “but a simple man that was in a position to have things that have had a legacy that lasts far beyond him, which is amazing. Few of us get a chance to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>It’s the Bay Curious podcast’s one-year anniversary! To celebrate, we’re answering four questions in one episode. So buckle up.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone who has driven between San Francisco and Marin on Highway 101 in the past half-century has made the journey underneath a rainbow, regardless of the weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Schimm often rode through what was then known as the Waldo Tunnel (named after 19th century California politician William Waldo) just north of the Golden Gate Bridge when she was a kid growing up in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a kid, my dad worked in San Francisco, and the rainbow tunnel was kind of the first landmark associated with the city,” says Schimm, who now lives in New York City. “Going through the tunnel, we’d always be chanting, ‘Rainbow tunnel! Rainbow tunnel!’ and I remember asking my parents, ‘Why does it have the rainbow on it?’ and neither of them could answer the question.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629439\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27935_Rainbow-Tunnel-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11629439\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27935_Rainbow-Tunnel-2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27935_Rainbow-Tunnel-2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27935_Rainbow-Tunnel-2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27935_Rainbow-Tunnel-2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27935_Rainbow-Tunnel-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27935_Rainbow-Tunnel-2-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27935_Rainbow-Tunnel-2-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27935_Rainbow-Tunnel-2-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27935_Rainbow-Tunnel-2-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27935_Rainbow-Tunnel-2-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The rainbow paint on the tunnel between Marin and San Francisco on Highway 101 was the brainchild of Caltrans public affairs officer Robert Halligan Sr. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the California Department of Transportation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All these years later, the tunnel has a new name — the Robin Williams Tunnel — but Schimm is still looking for an answer:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Why are there rainbows painted on the tunnel and who painted them?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Anniversary Bonus Question\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[Atat]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Is it true that George Lucas was inspired to create the AT-AT because of the cranes at the Port of Oakland?\u003c/strong> Get the answer in our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/09/bay-curious-lighting-round-inspiration-for-at-ats-the-tenderloin-and-popeyes-voice/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lightning round post!\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The story starts in the 1960s with a guy named Robert Halligan Sr. driving through what was, at the time, some drab-looking concrete tunnels between San Francisco and Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dad commuted there every single day,” says Robert Halligan Jr. The Halligans lived in Marinwood at the time, and Halligan Sr. thought it would be great if there was something a little nicer to welcome commuters driving back to the North Bay at the end of the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Halligan Sr. was not your average commuter. He was also the public affairs officer with the California Department of Transportation, and he had a flair for the creative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the Bay Area was opening a lot of new freeways, and Halligan Sr. put his creative mind to work. His son says he had a Silicon Valley robot clip the ribbon at one ceremony and had a local traffic helicopter drive through the ribbon at another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was also the time — the 1960s and ’70s — when highway planners were thinking a lot about the aesthetics and design of the roads they were laying down. Californians were spending a lot of time on the roads, and people thought it would be nice if those roads were a little more beautiful.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch3>Anniversary Bonus Question\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11629443 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-800x452.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-800x452.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-1020x576.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-1180x666.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-960x542.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-240x136.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-375x212.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398-520x294.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-8.39.26-PM-e1510203144398.png 1498w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>How did the Tenderloin get its name?\u003c/strong> Was it a reference to the “tender loins” of prostitutes who did business there? Or maybe something to do with the shape of the neighborhood? Get the answer in our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/09/bay-curious-lighting-round-inspiration-for-at-ats-the-tenderloin-and-popeyes-voice/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lightning round post!\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So when Halligan Sr. proposed painting rainbows at the entrance to the tunnels in Marin, his colleagues said they were on board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rainbow tunnels were simply part of that kind of experience, trying to improve the aesthetics of concrete in people’s lives,” Halligan Jr. said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it wasn’t just their colorful presence that made rainbows the right choice. Halligan Jr. says the half-circle shape of the tunnel openings made a rainbow “naturally conducive” to the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the rainbows first went up, most residents loved them, but a few hated the new paint job. The two sides battled it out in the Letters to the Editor page of the San Rafael Daily Independent Journal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a disfiguration of the landscape and an insult to the quiet beauty of this entire county,” wrote Dr. and Mrs. Alan J. Davidson of Mill Valley on Nov. 3, 1970. “The pastels of Cartoonland should be confined to the Sunday funnies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Did a muse, en route to an appointment with Andy Warhol, veer off course and land in the Division of Highways? Let us be grateful for an inspired treatment of dull, gray concrete!” countered Lewis W. Stewart of San Anselmo on Nov. 10, 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 494px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27930_Tunnel-Clips-Combined.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11629432\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27930_Tunnel-Clips-Combined.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27930_Tunnel-Clips-Combined.jpg 494w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27930_Tunnel-Clips-Combined-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27930_Tunnel-Clips-Combined-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27930_Tunnel-Clips-Combined-375x269.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents debated the new rainbow design on the Waldo Tunnel in letters to the editor in San Rafael’s Daily Independent Journal in 1970.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My dad used to say if it’s not controversial, it’s not art,” Halligan Jr. said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he didn’t stop caring about his controversial artwork. When it came time to give the rainbow a new paint job, Halligan Sr. was not impressed with the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Anniversary Bonus Question\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/i8O0PwGSoO0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/i8O0PwGSoO0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Is it true that the original voice of Popeye died in a San Jose trailer park?\u003c/strong> Get the answer in our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/09/bay-curious-lighting-round-inspiration-for-at-ats-the-tenderloin-and-popeyes-voice/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lightning round post!\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“My dad looked at them and said, ‘Oh my God, they repainted them the faded colors,’ ” Halligan Jr. said. “So they had to go back and repaint them the original bright colors you see today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Halligan Sr. considered the rainbow tunnels to be one of the best things he accomplished during his career. 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"content": "\u003cp>El Camino Real — originally part of 101 — runs the length of the Peninsula between San Francisco and San Jose. Its very name implies a regal history. Translated from the Spanish, it means “The King’s Highway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legend has it that El Camino Real in Silicon Valley is part of the historic Mission Trail, an ancient road that connects the Spanish missions, which stretch like a string of pearls along the California coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But is that true?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/bay-curious/2017/11/ElCaminoNotSoRealpodcastmastered.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27183_IMG_3292-2-qut.jpg\" Title=\"LISTEN: El Camino Not-So-Real: The True Story of the 'Ancient Road'\" program=\"Bay Curious\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debbie Torrey of Campbell asked Bay Curious the question “What can you find about The El Camino Real history?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We met up with American History professor\u003ca href=\"https://www.scu.edu/cas/history/faculty-and-staff/robert-m-senkewicz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Robert Senkewicz\u003c/a> of Santa Clara University, which happens to host one of the Bay Area’s five Spanish missions, \u003ca href=\"https://www.scu.edu/missionchurch/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mission Santa Clara\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11621270\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27184_IMG_3295-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Debbie Torrey of Campbell grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. In fourth grade, she received a heavily abbreviated and overly rosy history of Spanish era California. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27184_IMG_3295-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27184_IMG_3295-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27184_IMG_3295-2-qut-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27184_IMG_3295-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27184_IMG_3295-2-qut-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27184_IMG_3295-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27184_IMG_3295-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27184_IMG_3295-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27184_IMG_3295-2-qut-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie Torrey of Campbell grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. In fourth grade, she received a heavily abbreviated and overly rosy history of Spanish-era California. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There, Senkewicz began to unravel a series of falsehoods that have been “common wisdom,” starting with the surprising truth that there were many El Camino Reals all over the land that Spain used to control in the New World, from 1769 to 1821.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Technically, all of this belonged to the King of Spain,” Senkewicz says, and many major roads would have been called El Camino Real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he makes a left turn I was not expecting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happened in terms of the El Camino Real has more to do with Southern California than it does with Northern California,” Senkewicz says. “By about the 1870s, you get more and more Anglos, Americans, coming into Southern California. And the Anglo population really increases with the arrival of the railroads in Los Angeles in the 1880s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In America, there’s a rich tradition of just-got-here-yesterday people concocting romantic origin myths, and a number of influential Southern Californians wanted one of their own. They looked around and saw crumbling Spanish missions: 21 of them, from the Mexican border all the way north to Sonoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621283\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11621283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27185_IMG_3301-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Robert Senkewicz of Santa Clara University in Mission Santa Clara. Originally built in 1777, this mission was restored in 1822 and again in 1928.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27185_IMG_3301-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27185_IMG_3301-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27185_IMG_3301-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27185_IMG_3301-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27185_IMG_3301-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27185_IMG_3301-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27185_IMG_3301-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27185_IMG_3301-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27185_IMG_3301-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Robert Senkewicz of Santa Clara University in Mission Santa Clara. Originally built in 1777, this mission was restored in 1822 and again in 1928. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The mission past that they construct was a fantasy past: heroic missionaries, happy, contented Indians, fandangos all over the place,” Senkewicz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, what was really going on here was the enslavement of local tribespeople, who were reeling under the impact of European diseases, forced religious conversion and the destruction of their entire way of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that our question asker Debbie Torrey — or I — learned much of this in the fourth grade, which is when a lot of California schoolchildren study the subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re right,” Torrey says. “They did glamorize it, thinking it was all wonderful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were a number of ways the Spanish were given credit for things they didn’t do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Often enough you read in textbooks that they blazed trails,” Senkewicz says. “They didn’t blaze trails. They followed trails that had already been developed by indigenous people up and down the California coast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the turn of the 20th century, as Phoebe S. Kropp details in her excellent book, \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books/about/California_Vieja.html?id=TYW7u_wDsHUC\">“California\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books/about/California_Vieja.html?id=TYW7u_wDsHUC\"> Vieja,”\u003c/a> few people wanted \u003ci>that\u003c/i> version of history. They wanted something fun, happy and exotic. Groups like the Landmarks Club, led by the Los Angeles historian Charles Lummis, and the Native Daughters of the Golden West pushed to reframe a collection of dirt roads into a “rediscovered” king’s highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, they were inspired by works of fiction like Helen Hunt Jackson’s 1884 novel, “Ramona.” Although Jackson meant to expose the mistreatment of the “Mission Indians,” the book fed the public’s desire for a romanticized vision of Spanish California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11621286 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Mission San Jose in Fremont once controlled a huge expanse of what we now know as the East Bay. An on-site museum tells the story of how the mission fulfilled its purpose of securing Spain's claim to the land and compelling local native peoples to convert to the Spanish way of life.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mission San Jose in Fremont once controlled a huge expanse of what we now know as the East Bay. An on-site museum tells the story of how the mission fulfilled its purpose of securing Spain’s claim to the land and compelling local native peoples to convert to the Spanish way of life. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The myth spread further when the Automobile Club of Southern California decided that this fantasy past was a great way of getting people to buy and drive automobiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They begin to push the notion that there was one central road, which they named the El Camino Real, that connected the missions. They began to push the notion that the missions were located a day’s journey from each other,” Senkewicz says. “Which kind of, when you kind of think about it, makes them motels, rather than what they actually were: agents of assimilation of the native peoples.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you think about it, the walk between Mission Dolores in San Francisco and Mission Santa Clara would make for a really long day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621296\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11621296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27187_default-qut-160x428.jpg\" alt=\"This 1915 map from the Automobile Club of Southern California is one of three maps designed to show Spanish-era missions laid out as an appealing road trip, each a day's journey from each other. \" width=\"200\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27187_default-qut-160x428.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27187_default-qut-800x2138.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27187_default-qut-960x2566.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27187_default-qut-240x642.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27187_default-qut-375x1002.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27187_default-qut-520x1390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27187_default-qut.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This 1915 map from the Automobile Club of Southern California is one of three maps designed to show Spanish-era missions laid out as an appealing road trip, each a day’s journey from each other. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Stanford University's Warren Heckrotte Map Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also, look at this 1915 map from the Automobile Club of Southern California. Once you get north of Central California, it becomes much less clear how Bay Area missions are one day’s drive apart. (Also, the mapmaker got the name of the mission in modern-day Fremont wrong. It’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.missionsanjose.org/history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mission San Jose\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why did Northern California play along with this Southern California fantasy? Senkewicz says the concept caught on with wealthy Californians like Jane Stanford, wife of the railroad baron Leland Stanford, and prominent Catholics like San Francisco Mayor James Phelan. They wanted the Spanish missions restored to something like their former glory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of them were really in sad shape,” Senkewicz says. “If you look at pictures from the 1860s and the 1870s, the missions are crumbling!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider this: If the Spanish Revival movement had not happened, we might be looking at a string of ruins along the California coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years ago, Debbie Torrey took her kids on a multi-mission tour, but told them a lot of stuff that turns out to be bunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now she plans to take her grandkids. They’ll get the truth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Special thanks to the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra for use of \u003ci>the last movement, Grave–Tempo di Fandango, of \u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003ci>Boccherini’s String Quintet in D major, G 341. It was recorded in 2005, with Jordi Savall conducting and Tanya Tomkins playing the cello solo.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debbie Torrey of Campbell asked Bay Curious the question “What can you find about The El Camino Real history?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We met up with American History professor\u003ca href=\"https://www.scu.edu/cas/history/faculty-and-staff/robert-m-senkewicz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Robert Senkewicz\u003c/a> of Santa Clara University, which happens to host one of the Bay Area’s five Spanish missions, \u003ca href=\"https://www.scu.edu/missionchurch/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mission Santa Clara\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11621270\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27184_IMG_3295-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Debbie Torrey of Campbell grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. In fourth grade, she received a heavily abbreviated and overly rosy history of Spanish era California. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27184_IMG_3295-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27184_IMG_3295-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27184_IMG_3295-2-qut-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27184_IMG_3295-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27184_IMG_3295-2-qut-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27184_IMG_3295-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27184_IMG_3295-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27184_IMG_3295-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27184_IMG_3295-2-qut-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie Torrey of Campbell grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. In fourth grade, she received a heavily abbreviated and overly rosy history of Spanish-era California. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There, Senkewicz began to unravel a series of falsehoods that have been “common wisdom,” starting with the surprising truth that there were many El Camino Reals all over the land that Spain used to control in the New World, from 1769 to 1821.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Technically, all of this belonged to the King of Spain,” Senkewicz says, and many major roads would have been called El Camino Real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he makes a left turn I was not expecting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happened in terms of the El Camino Real has more to do with Southern California than it does with Northern California,” Senkewicz says. “By about the 1870s, you get more and more Anglos, Americans, coming into Southern California. And the Anglo population really increases with the arrival of the railroads in Los Angeles in the 1880s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In America, there’s a rich tradition of just-got-here-yesterday people concocting romantic origin myths, and a number of influential Southern Californians wanted one of their own. They looked around and saw crumbling Spanish missions: 21 of them, from the Mexican border all the way north to Sonoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621283\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11621283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27185_IMG_3301-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Robert Senkewicz of Santa Clara University in Mission Santa Clara. Originally built in 1777, this mission was restored in 1822 and again in 1928.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27185_IMG_3301-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27185_IMG_3301-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27185_IMG_3301-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27185_IMG_3301-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27185_IMG_3301-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27185_IMG_3301-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27185_IMG_3301-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27185_IMG_3301-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27185_IMG_3301-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Robert Senkewicz of Santa Clara University in Mission Santa Clara. Originally built in 1777, this mission was restored in 1822 and again in 1928. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The mission past that they construct was a fantasy past: heroic missionaries, happy, contented Indians, fandangos all over the place,” Senkewicz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, what was really going on here was the enslavement of local tribespeople, who were reeling under the impact of European diseases, forced religious conversion and the destruction of their entire way of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that our question asker Debbie Torrey — or I — learned much of this in the fourth grade, which is when a lot of California schoolchildren study the subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re right,” Torrey says. “They did glamorize it, thinking it was all wonderful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were a number of ways the Spanish were given credit for things they didn’t do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Often enough you read in textbooks that they blazed trails,” Senkewicz says. “They didn’t blaze trails. They followed trails that had already been developed by indigenous people up and down the California coast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the turn of the 20th century, as Phoebe S. Kropp details in her excellent book, \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books/about/California_Vieja.html?id=TYW7u_wDsHUC\">“California\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books/about/California_Vieja.html?id=TYW7u_wDsHUC\"> Vieja,”\u003c/a> few people wanted \u003ci>that\u003c/i> version of history. They wanted something fun, happy and exotic. Groups like the Landmarks Club, led by the Los Angeles historian Charles Lummis, and the Native Daughters of the Golden West pushed to reframe a collection of dirt roads into a “rediscovered” king’s highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, they were inspired by works of fiction like Helen Hunt Jackson’s 1884 novel, “Ramona.” Although Jackson meant to expose the mistreatment of the “Mission Indians,” the book fed the public’s desire for a romanticized vision of Spanish California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11621286 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Mission San Jose in Fremont once controlled a huge expanse of what we now know as the East Bay. An on-site museum tells the story of how the mission fulfilled its purpose of securing Spain's claim to the land and compelling local native peoples to convert to the Spanish way of life.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mission San Jose in Fremont once controlled a huge expanse of what we now know as the East Bay. An on-site museum tells the story of how the mission fulfilled its purpose of securing Spain’s claim to the land and compelling local native peoples to convert to the Spanish way of life. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The myth spread further when the Automobile Club of Southern California decided that this fantasy past was a great way of getting people to buy and drive automobiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They begin to push the notion that there was one central road, which they named the El Camino Real, that connected the missions. They began to push the notion that the missions were located a day’s journey from each other,” Senkewicz says. “Which kind of, when you kind of think about it, makes them motels, rather than what they actually were: agents of assimilation of the native peoples.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you think about it, the walk between Mission Dolores in San Francisco and Mission Santa Clara would make for a really long day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621296\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11621296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27187_default-qut-160x428.jpg\" alt=\"This 1915 map from the Automobile Club of Southern California is one of three maps designed to show Spanish-era missions laid out as an appealing road trip, each a day's journey from each other. \" width=\"200\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27187_default-qut-160x428.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27187_default-qut-800x2138.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27187_default-qut-960x2566.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27187_default-qut-240x642.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27187_default-qut-375x1002.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27187_default-qut-520x1390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27187_default-qut.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This 1915 map from the Automobile Club of Southern California is one of three maps designed to show Spanish-era missions laid out as an appealing road trip, each a day’s journey from each other. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Stanford University's Warren Heckrotte Map Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also, look at this 1915 map from the Automobile Club of Southern California. Once you get north of Central California, it becomes much less clear how Bay Area missions are one day’s drive apart. (Also, the mapmaker got the name of the mission in modern-day Fremont wrong. It’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.missionsanjose.org/history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mission San Jose\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why did Northern California play along with this Southern California fantasy? Senkewicz says the concept caught on with wealthy Californians like Jane Stanford, wife of the railroad baron Leland Stanford, and prominent Catholics like San Francisco Mayor James Phelan. They wanted the Spanish missions restored to something like their former glory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of them were really in sad shape,” Senkewicz says. “If you look at pictures from the 1860s and the 1870s, the missions are crumbling!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider this: If the Spanish Revival movement had not happened, we might be looking at a string of ruins along the California coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years ago, Debbie Torrey took her kids on a multi-mission tour, but told them a lot of stuff that turns out to be bunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now she plans to take her grandkids. They’ll get the truth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Special thanks to the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra for use of \u003ci>the last movement, Grave–Tempo di Fandango, of \u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003ci>Boccherini’s String Quintet in D major, G 341. It was recorded in 2005, with Jordi Savall conducting and Tanya Tomkins playing the cello solo.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Spend some time walking around San Francisco, and you’ll probably notice the large brick circles decorating the pavement at some intersections. They can be found all over the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Bay Curious has received dozens of questions about these mysterious circles. The latest one came from listener Matthew Cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out, those circles date back to the mid-1800s, and they mark huge underground tanks, or cisterns, that hold water to fight fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are more than 170 cisterns scattered throughout San Francisco. And some hold as much water as two backyard swimming pools, says Katie Miller, the city’s water division manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622816\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A brick circle marks an underground cistern in Potrero Hill.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A brick circle marks an underground cistern in Potrero Hill. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/markhogan/14974407252/in/photolist-gMTKYV-GCuDYq-oPeKzo-EMRQXn\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Hogan/Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city just finished building 30 new cisterns, many of them in places where there weren’t any, or where they could be key in stopping fires from spreading. Each costs about $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So if you think about it, that’s about the cost of a really nice new home,” says Miller. “It’s about the size of a new home, too. It can be a nice bunker for somebody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622291\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622291\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Cisterns-2-3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A construction worker at the site of a cistern being built in the Richmond District of San Francisco. The city will be finished putting in 30 new cisterns this month. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But why does the city need these underground tanks to fight fires? For that question, Scott Kildall is the one to ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s \u003ca href=\"http://kildall.com/\">an artist\u003c/a> who has lived in San Francisco for years, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterworks.io/cistern_map/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he designed a map\u003c/a> with the locations of each cistern. This mapping process turned him into a sort of cistern history buff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a historian,” he says, “but I’ve become a historian about cisterns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kildall begins the story in 1848, when San Francisco was a bunch of tents, housing a little less than \u003ca href=\"https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=CS18480318.2.4&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a thousand people\u003c/a>. Then, in 1849, gold was discovered and thousands rushed into the city. In just one year, the city grew to about \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgpop.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">25 times its size,\u003c/a> to at least \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=tDIuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA153&lpg=PA153&dq=The+Annals+of+San+Francisco+1849+at+the+close+of+1849,+the+population+of+the+town+numbered,+at+least,+twenty,+and+probably+nearer+twenty-five+thousand+souls&source=bl&ots=PEO6m8vSsg&sig=1yDgFbib7Nfm9irZtDCycuYSSn4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjyz-jg_ObWAhWmllQKHRbEALEQ6AEINTAC#v=onepage&q=The%20Annals%20of%20San%20Francisco%201849%20at%20the%20close%20of%201849%2C%20the%20population%20of%20the%20town%20numbered%2C%20at%20least%2C%20twenty%2C%20and%20probably%20nearer%20twenty-five%20thousand%20souls&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">20,000 residents.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demand for housing skyrocketed and a building frenzy followed. Most homes were built out of wood, but the wood made for perfect kindling. In the 1850s, the city saw six big fires, which came to be known as the Great Fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622282\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622282\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Cisterns-3-800x570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Kildall points to a large brick circle that marks a cistern at the entrance to San Francisco’s Chinatown. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The devastation from the fires spurred the city to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are like, ‘Oh no, what are we going to do. We got to do something about this,’ ” Kildall says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at that time, he says, there was no way to lay out water mains and pipes. So, city leaders built 16 underground cisterns around San Francisco to store water for firefighting. The very first was a 12,000-gallon cistern in Portsmouth Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622283\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Cisterns-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Kildall looks at his cistern map on his phone to find the next cistern on our tour. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They also bought some fire engines pulled by horses, and set up a paid position for a fire chief. There was even an ordinance passed that required each family to have\u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/stream/sanfranciscof18491967sanf/sanfranciscof18491967sanf_djvu.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> six buckets of water\u003c/a> in their house — just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the city grew, more cisterns were installed. But the city also started to install water pipes and hydrants. By the end of the 1800s, residents had full faith in their new water system, and the cisterns \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/stream/sanfranciscof18491967sanf/sanfranciscof18491967sanf_djvu.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stopped being maintained\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then came the massive \u003ca href=\"https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/events/1906calif/18april/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1906 earthquake\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622298\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-800x567.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-800x567.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-1020x723.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-1920x1361.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-1180x836.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-960x680.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-240x170.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-375x266.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-520x369.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The massive 1906 earthquake lasted for about a minute, smashing windows, caving in chimneys, even throwing a train off its tracks. But the real damage was from the fires that ensued. \u003ccite>(Records of the United States Senate, National Archives.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It struck on the morning of April 18, and shook the city for about a minute. Windows were smashed and chimneys caved in. Even a train was thrown off its tracks. The damage was incredible. Three-quarters of the city was gone, 3,000 people died and about \u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/sf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">200,000 were left homeless\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most of the damage wasn’t from the earthquake itself — it was from the three days of fires that followed. Since the quake broke a lot of the city’s water pipes, most fire hydrants quickly ran out of water or stopped working entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"http://guardiansofthecity.org/sffd/fires/great_fires/1906/cisterns.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a lot of the old cisterns remained intact, \u003c/a>and firefighters used them to save several San Francisco neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622293\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622293\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Cisterns-1-3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction workers smooth out cement to make the roof of a new cistern being built in the Richmond District of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Franciscans now realized their value, and they built and repaired \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/hpfs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over a hundred\u003c/a> within \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=5oE4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA677&lpg=PA677&dq=san+francisco+bond+bill+1906+cisterns&source=bl&ots=nVL6bRwqcu&sig=lJdFIwJqiEn20MtiXkNZVmmLXmk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj2_YzSy-7VAhUP92MKHbHTDgEQ6AEIUDAJ#v=onepage&q=san%20francisco%20bond%20bill%201906%20cisterns&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the next several years.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can see that people didn’t think they’re actually useful until they were useful, and they said, ‘Oh that’s a really good idea,’ ” Kildall points out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kildall offered to take me on a tour of the cisterns in San Francisco’s Chinatown. We visited about 10 cisterns, but not all of them had the brick rings. Kildall didn’t know why, but Deputy Fire Chief Tony Rivera took a guess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The roads have been repaved so many times, there probably is an original brick circle somewhere deep under there,” says Rivera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622292\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622292\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Cisterns-2-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A city worker uses a fire hose to fill up a cistern in the Outer Excelsior in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rivera is a fan of the red brick circle, although he says they come in two other designs: a double circle and a square. The designs aren’t as important anymore for helping firefighters find the cisterns. Now, he says, they use GPS. So these days, the circles just serve as decoration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the cisterns underneath those designs, they haven’t been used since the 1906 earthquake more than a century ago. But they are down there, just in case, ready to save the city when the next earthquake strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>As part of Kildall’s mapping project, he designed a 3-D cistern model. You can 3-D print your own\u003ca href=\"https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:419453\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> by downloading his file here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Spend some time walking around San Francisco, and you’ll probably notice the large brick circles decorating the pavement at some intersections. They can be found all over the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Bay Curious has received dozens of questions about these mysterious circles. The latest one came from listener Matthew Cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out, those circles date back to the mid-1800s, and they mark huge underground tanks, or cisterns, that hold water to fight fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are more than 170 cisterns scattered throughout San Francisco. And some hold as much water as two backyard swimming pools, says Katie Miller, the city’s water division manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622816\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A brick circle marks an underground cistern in Potrero Hill.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A brick circle marks an underground cistern in Potrero Hill. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/markhogan/14974407252/in/photolist-gMTKYV-GCuDYq-oPeKzo-EMRQXn\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Hogan/Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city just finished building 30 new cisterns, many of them in places where there weren’t any, or where they could be key in stopping fires from spreading. Each costs about $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So if you think about it, that’s about the cost of a really nice new home,” says Miller. “It’s about the size of a new home, too. It can be a nice bunker for somebody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622291\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622291\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Cisterns-2-3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A construction worker at the site of a cistern being built in the Richmond District of San Francisco. The city will be finished putting in 30 new cisterns this month. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But why does the city need these underground tanks to fight fires? For that question, Scott Kildall is the one to ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s \u003ca href=\"http://kildall.com/\">an artist\u003c/a> who has lived in San Francisco for years, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterworks.io/cistern_map/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he designed a map\u003c/a> with the locations of each cistern. This mapping process turned him into a sort of cistern history buff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a historian,” he says, “but I’ve become a historian about cisterns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kildall begins the story in 1848, when San Francisco was a bunch of tents, housing a little less than \u003ca href=\"https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=CS18480318.2.4&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a thousand people\u003c/a>. Then, in 1849, gold was discovered and thousands rushed into the city. In just one year, the city grew to about \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgpop.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">25 times its size,\u003c/a> to at least \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=tDIuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA153&lpg=PA153&dq=The+Annals+of+San+Francisco+1849+at+the+close+of+1849,+the+population+of+the+town+numbered,+at+least,+twenty,+and+probably+nearer+twenty-five+thousand+souls&source=bl&ots=PEO6m8vSsg&sig=1yDgFbib7Nfm9irZtDCycuYSSn4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjyz-jg_ObWAhWmllQKHRbEALEQ6AEINTAC#v=onepage&q=The%20Annals%20of%20San%20Francisco%201849%20at%20the%20close%20of%201849%2C%20the%20population%20of%20the%20town%20numbered%2C%20at%20least%2C%20twenty%2C%20and%20probably%20nearer%20twenty-five%20thousand%20souls&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">20,000 residents.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demand for housing skyrocketed and a building frenzy followed. Most homes were built out of wood, but the wood made for perfect kindling. In the 1850s, the city saw six big fires, which came to be known as the Great Fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622282\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622282\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Cisterns-3-800x570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Kildall points to a large brick circle that marks a cistern at the entrance to San Francisco’s Chinatown. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The devastation from the fires spurred the city to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are like, ‘Oh no, what are we going to do. We got to do something about this,’ ” Kildall says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at that time, he says, there was no way to lay out water mains and pipes. So, city leaders built 16 underground cisterns around San Francisco to store water for firefighting. The very first was a 12,000-gallon cistern in Portsmouth Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622283\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Cisterns-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Kildall looks at his cistern map on his phone to find the next cistern on our tour. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They also bought some fire engines pulled by horses, and set up a paid position for a fire chief. There was even an ordinance passed that required each family to have\u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/stream/sanfranciscof18491967sanf/sanfranciscof18491967sanf_djvu.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> six buckets of water\u003c/a> in their house — just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the city grew, more cisterns were installed. But the city also started to install water pipes and hydrants. By the end of the 1800s, residents had full faith in their new water system, and the cisterns \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/stream/sanfranciscof18491967sanf/sanfranciscof18491967sanf_djvu.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stopped being maintained\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then came the massive \u003ca href=\"https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/events/1906calif/18april/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1906 earthquake\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622298\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-800x567.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-800x567.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-1020x723.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-1920x1361.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-1180x836.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-960x680.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-240x170.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-375x266.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-520x369.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The massive 1906 earthquake lasted for about a minute, smashing windows, caving in chimneys, even throwing a train off its tracks. But the real damage was from the fires that ensued. \u003ccite>(Records of the United States Senate, National Archives.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It struck on the morning of April 18, and shook the city for about a minute. Windows were smashed and chimneys caved in. Even a train was thrown off its tracks. The damage was incredible. Three-quarters of the city was gone, 3,000 people died and about \u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/sf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">200,000 were left homeless\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most of the damage wasn’t from the earthquake itself — it was from the three days of fires that followed. Since the quake broke a lot of the city’s water pipes, most fire hydrants quickly ran out of water or stopped working entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"http://guardiansofthecity.org/sffd/fires/great_fires/1906/cisterns.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a lot of the old cisterns remained intact, \u003c/a>and firefighters used them to save several San Francisco neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622293\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622293\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Cisterns-1-3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction workers smooth out cement to make the roof of a new cistern being built in the Richmond District of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Franciscans now realized their value, and they built and repaired \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/hpfs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over a hundred\u003c/a> within \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=5oE4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA677&lpg=PA677&dq=san+francisco+bond+bill+1906+cisterns&source=bl&ots=nVL6bRwqcu&sig=lJdFIwJqiEn20MtiXkNZVmmLXmk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj2_YzSy-7VAhUP92MKHbHTDgEQ6AEIUDAJ#v=onepage&q=san%20francisco%20bond%20bill%201906%20cisterns&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the next several years.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can see that people didn’t think they’re actually useful until they were useful, and they said, ‘Oh that’s a really good idea,’ ” Kildall points out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kildall offered to take me on a tour of the cisterns in San Francisco’s Chinatown. We visited about 10 cisterns, but not all of them had the brick rings. Kildall didn’t know why, but Deputy Fire Chief Tony Rivera took a guess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The roads have been repaved so many times, there probably is an original brick circle somewhere deep under there,” says Rivera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622292\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622292\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Cisterns-2-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A city worker uses a fire hose to fill up a cistern in the Outer Excelsior in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rivera is a fan of the red brick circle, although he says they come in two other designs: a double circle and a square. The designs aren’t as important anymore for helping firefighters find the cisterns. Now, he says, they use GPS. So these days, the circles just serve as decoration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the cisterns underneath those designs, they haven’t been used since the 1906 earthquake more than a century ago. But they are down there, just in case, ready to save the city when the next earthquake strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>As part of Kildall’s mapping project, he designed a 3-D cistern model. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco has always been the sort of place where people come to reinvent themselves in a big way. The trend goes back to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11652705/americas-emperor-san-franciscos-treasure-who-was-emperor-norton\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Norton\u003c/a>, the eccentric wheeler-dealer who declared himself emperor of the United States in 1859.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When San Francisco drag queen and political activist José Sarria declared himself the “Empress José I, The Widow Norton,” in 1965, he wasn’t just having fun with Norton’s legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the founder of \u003ca href=\"http://www.impcourt.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Imperial Court\u003c/a>, Sarria launched and presided over an entire movement that would not only support LGBTQ causes in a profound way over the more than five decades of its existence to date, but would also do it with lashings of bejeweled and sequined flair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learn about The Imperial Court in this episode of Bay Curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/bay-curious/2017/10/ImperialCourtpodcastmastered.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/parade-of-imperial-court-dignitaries-e1506985255419.jpg\" Title=\"LISTEN: How San Francisco’s Drag Royalty Does Good, While Playing Dress Up\" program=\"Bay Curious\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten things to know about The Imperial Court:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>From its roots in 1960s San Francisco, today’s Imperial Court extends to around 70 chapters across the U.S., Canada and Mexico.\u003c/li>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620612\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11620612 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Sarria2009B-e1506994286257-800x477.jpg\" alt=\"Jose Sarria posing during a visit to the GLBT Historical Society in 2009.\" width=\"800\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Sarria2009B-e1506994286257-800x477.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Sarria2009B-e1506994286257-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Sarria2009B-e1506994286257-1020x608.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Sarria2009B-e1506994286257-1180x703.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Sarria2009B-e1506994286257-960x572.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Sarria2009B-e1506994286257-240x143.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Sarria2009B-e1506994286257-375x223.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Sarria2009B-e1506994286257-520x310.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Sarria2009B-e1506994286257.jpg 1556w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">José Sarria poses during a visit to the GLBT Historical Society in 2009. \u003ccite>(Gerard Koskovich)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cli>The San Francisco chapter raises between $50,000-$100,000 each year for a wide range of charities, including San Francisco Suicide Prevention and the Gay-Straight Alliance.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For nearly three decades until it shuttered in 2013, Marlena’s, a bar in Hayes Valley, was “ground zero” for Imperial Court activities in San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620596\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11620596\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Marlena-and-bar-sign-e1506991019483-800x453.jpg\" alt=\"Empress Marlena (aka Gary Mclain) poses by the sign that used to hang above her bar. Marlena's was ground zero for the Imperial Court for close to three decades.\" width=\"800\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Marlena-and-bar-sign-e1506991019483-800x453.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Marlena-and-bar-sign-e1506991019483-160x91.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Marlena-and-bar-sign-e1506991019483-1020x577.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Marlena-and-bar-sign-e1506991019483-1920x1086.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Marlena-and-bar-sign-e1506991019483-1180x668.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Marlena-and-bar-sign-e1506991019483-960x543.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Marlena-and-bar-sign-e1506991019483-240x136.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Marlena-and-bar-sign-e1506991019483-375x212.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Marlena-and-bar-sign-e1506991019483-520x294.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Empress Marlena (aka Gary Mclain) poses by the sign that used to hang above her bar. Marlena’s was ground zero for the Imperial Court for close to three decades. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cli>The Imperial Court elects a new emperor and empress every February. Candidates run their election campaigns for about a month leading up to the election date.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The results of the election are announced at the annual coronation, which is held at San Francisco’s Design Center these days.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>There have been 52 empresses and 45 emperors to date.\u003c/li>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620601\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11620601\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Alexis-Miranda-e1506991511440-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Alexis Miranda, Imperial Court Empress 33 and manager at Divas in The Tenderloin, hosts a regular weekly gathering of Imperial and Ducal Court members.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Alexis-Miranda-e1506991511440-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Alexis-Miranda-e1506991511440-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Alexis-Miranda-e1506991511440-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Alexis-Miranda-e1506991511440-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Alexis-Miranda-e1506991511440-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Alexis-Miranda-e1506991511440-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Alexis-Miranda-e1506991511440-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Alexis-Miranda-e1506991511440-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Alexis-Miranda-e1506991511440-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexis Miranda, Imperial Court Empress 33 and manager at Divas in The Tenderloin, hosts a regular weekly gathering of Imperial and Ducal Court members. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cli>Most Imperial Court royals hold down day jobs in addition to working hard weekends on behalf of The Imperial Court. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten things to know about The Imperial Court:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>From its roots in 1960s San Francisco, today’s Imperial Court extends to around 70 chapters across the U.S., Canada and Mexico.\u003c/li>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620612\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11620612 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Sarria2009B-e1506994286257-800x477.jpg\" alt=\"Jose Sarria posing during a visit to the GLBT Historical Society in 2009.\" width=\"800\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Sarria2009B-e1506994286257-800x477.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Sarria2009B-e1506994286257-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Sarria2009B-e1506994286257-1020x608.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Sarria2009B-e1506994286257-1180x703.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Sarria2009B-e1506994286257-960x572.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Sarria2009B-e1506994286257-240x143.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Sarria2009B-e1506994286257-375x223.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Sarria2009B-e1506994286257-520x310.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Sarria2009B-e1506994286257.jpg 1556w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">José Sarria poses during a visit to the GLBT Historical Society in 2009. \u003ccite>(Gerard Koskovich)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cli>The San Francisco chapter raises between $50,000-$100,000 each year for a wide range of charities, including San Francisco Suicide Prevention and the Gay-Straight Alliance.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For nearly three decades until it shuttered in 2013, Marlena’s, a bar in Hayes Valley, was “ground zero” for Imperial Court activities in San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620596\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11620596\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Marlena-and-bar-sign-e1506991019483-800x453.jpg\" alt=\"Empress Marlena (aka Gary Mclain) poses by the sign that used to hang above her bar. 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Candidates run their election campaigns for about a month leading up to the election date.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The results of the election are announced at the annual coronation, which is held at San Francisco’s Design Center these days.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>There have been 52 empresses and 45 emperors to date.\u003c/li>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620601\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11620601\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Alexis-Miranda-e1506991511440-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Alexis Miranda, Imperial Court Empress 33 and manager at Divas in The Tenderloin, hosts a regular weekly gathering of Imperial and Ducal Court members.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Alexis-Miranda-e1506991511440-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Alexis-Miranda-e1506991511440-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Alexis-Miranda-e1506991511440-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Alexis-Miranda-e1506991511440-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Alexis-Miranda-e1506991511440-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Alexis-Miranda-e1506991511440-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Alexis-Miranda-e1506991511440-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Alexis-Miranda-e1506991511440-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Alexis-Miranda-e1506991511440-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexis Miranda, Imperial Court Empress 33 and manager at Divas in The Tenderloin, hosts a regular weekly gathering of Imperial and Ducal Court members. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cli>Most Imperial Court royals hold down day jobs in addition to working hard weekends on behalf of The Imperial Court. 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Its Japanese-American members proved themselves to be valiant soldiers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They took control of strategically important towns in France, and aided in the liberation of Rome. They broke stalwart German defenses, and discovered and freed prisoners of the Dachau concentration camp. They were regularly sent to the front lines to fight in some of the war’s bloodiest battles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some have said they were chosen to fight in these battles because their superiors considered them expendable. But few have questioned their heroism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the war, the team had earned over 18,000 awards, including 21 Medals of Honor and over 9,000 Purple Hearts — making the 442nd the most decorated military unit of its size in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learn more about the 442nd and hear stories from two members in this week’s Bay Curious episode, which you can play at the top of this article.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11619589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11619589 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-19-at-6.17.53-PM-800x531.png\" alt=\"Lawson Sakai, a World War 2 veteran who fought with the 442 Regimental Combat Team.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-19-at-6.17.53-PM-800x531.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-19-at-6.17.53-PM-160x106.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-19-at-6.17.53-PM-1020x677.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-19-at-6.17.53-PM-1920x1274.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-19-at-6.17.53-PM-1180x783.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-19-at-6.17.53-PM-960x637.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-19-at-6.17.53-PM-240x159.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-19-at-6.17.53-PM-375x249.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-19-at-6.17.53-PM-520x345.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lawson Sakai, a World War II veteran who fought with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11619567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11619567 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/C839DE3D-790D-486F-B17A-F0418758C28A-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Shigeo Yokote at his retirement home in Roseville, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/C839DE3D-790D-486F-B17A-F0418758C28A-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/C839DE3D-790D-486F-B17A-F0418758C28A-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/C839DE3D-790D-486F-B17A-F0418758C28A-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/C839DE3D-790D-486F-B17A-F0418758C28A-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/C839DE3D-790D-486F-B17A-F0418758C28A-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/C839DE3D-790D-486F-B17A-F0418758C28A-960x720.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/C839DE3D-790D-486F-B17A-F0418758C28A-240x180.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/C839DE3D-790D-486F-B17A-F0418758C28A-375x281.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/C839DE3D-790D-486F-B17A-F0418758C28A-520x390.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shigeo Yokote at his retirement home in Roseville, California. \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Picture a set of binoculars — only a pair the size of a low-rise building. That’s the shape of BART’s Transbay Tube — the dual-bore, 3.8-mile passageway that connects the West Oakland Station to San Francisco’s Embarcadero Station. Every weekday during peak commute hours, more than 60,000 BART riders cruise through the tube. What most don’t know is that they’re in a trench on the floor of San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Jennifer Schulz rides through the tube a lot and can’t help but to think: What if there was an earthquake? How safe is the Transbay Tube? Would it crack? Would bay water flood into my jam-packed BART car? Could I be trapped?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2005, BART has been undergoing a major earthquake retrofit. The final phase is expected to begin next year, finishing up some time in 2023. The cost? So far, $1.3 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Tena Rubio spoke with Tom Horton, BART’s earthquake safety manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is the Transbay Tube safe during an earthquake?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I can say is that it’s safer than most other places people are going to be in their working day. I mean, some of the buildings downtown are obviously built to very modern standards and can survive a large earthquake. But most of the buildings in the Bay Area probably would be collapsing in the size earthquake we’re talking about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Walk us through what happens if there is an earthquake.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, we reduce the speed of the train down to 27 mph, which gives an operator plenty of time to see what’s in front of him, and see if there’s any cracking or anything of that nature. But our goal is to not stop in the Transbay Tube. If for some reason folks have to exit the train, we have protocols in place to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What would happen? Would it leak?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tube does get leaks every now and then, as all tunnels do. And BART actually has an active program to plug those leaks when they happen. During the earthquake we expect that the earthquake forces will cause the liner to crack and then you’ll get leakage. Now the tunnel doesn’t collapse. The tunnels are plenty strong enough to stay up. But if you get too much leakage, it fills with water and that’s what we’re trying to prevent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So if it did crack, can it fill with water and flood?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have a pumping system. Part of the retrofit is to increase the size of that pumping system so you can at least slow down the rate of fill. The idea is that you can slow it down enough so that people can get out well before the tube floods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So it sounds like you’d almost want to be in the tube? That it’s safer than other areas?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless it’s a very, very large earthquake you’d probably want to be in the tube. Now we talked about the flooding problem. So if you’re in an earthquake that large it would be problematic, but then so is everywhere else in the Bay Area. So it’s kind of a wash, if you will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To hear more from Tom Horton and the safety of the Transbay Tube, listen to the full episode of Bay Curious at the top of this article.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11618104 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus-800x465.jpg\" alt=\"Since coming online, the fire department has only used the ambulance buses to transport patients once. They transported seniors after a convalescent home lost power in Burlingame.\" width=\"800\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus-160x93.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus-240x140.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus-375x218.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus-520x302.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Since coming online, the Fire Department has used the ambulance buses to transport patients only once. It transported seniors after a convalescent home lost power in Burlingame. \u003ccite>(Eli Wirtshafter/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Response Plan, Ready and Waiting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>All that talk about earthquakes got us thinking — what if something catastrophic did happen in the Bay Area? After the big one, it’s not going to be easy for \u003cem>anyone\u003c/em> to get around. So what will happen to people who really need medical care?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reporter Eli Wirtschafter learned about one unusual tool San Francisco has to address that problem: old Muni buses that have been turned into giant ambulances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea was first used on New Year’s Eve 2010, when big celebrations were planned at the Embarcadero. To provide extra medical support, the San Francisco Fire Department borrowed a 40-foot Muni bus and turned it into a makeshift mobile clinic, treating people who might have partied a little too hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From that time on, the idea of having a bus-sized ambulance “just stayed with us,” says Andy Zanoff, chief paramedic for the Fire Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mass casualty ambulances” exist, but new ones can cost around half a million dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, Muni donated two old buses it was taking out of service. Muni engineers converted the buses into ambulances over the course of six weeks, using kits purchased from a Virginia company. The project cost the city $79,000, and was supplemented by $67,000 from the Department of Homeland Security — in all, far less expensive than buying the ambulances new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The buses are the size and shape of standard Muni buses, but inside is a different story. Most of the seats have been replaced by stretchers stacked three high. They’re also fully stocked with medical equipment, like oxygen supply gear, gloves, shears and bandages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each bus can carry up to 22 patients in all — 10 in ordinary bus seats, and 12 on the stretchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the buses lack sirens, they would travel with a police escort. In the event of a large-scale emergency, “the buses can be ready to roll in less than 30 minutes,” says Zanoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 743px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11618108\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus_interior-1-e1505946604937.jpg\" alt=\"In a regular ambulance, “we would have cabinets where we could store all this equipment” says Zanoff. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Picture a set of binoculars — only a pair the size of a low-rise building. That’s the shape of BART’s Transbay Tube — the dual-bore, 3.8-mile passageway that connects the West Oakland Station to San Francisco’s Embarcadero Station. Every weekday during peak commute hours, more than 60,000 BART riders cruise through the tube. What most don’t know is that they’re in a trench on the floor of San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Jennifer Schulz rides through the tube a lot and can’t help but to think: What if there was an earthquake? How safe is the Transbay Tube? Would it crack? Would bay water flood into my jam-packed BART car? Could I be trapped?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2005, BART has been undergoing a major earthquake retrofit. The final phase is expected to begin next year, finishing up some time in 2023. The cost? So far, $1.3 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Tena Rubio spoke with Tom Horton, BART’s earthquake safety manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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That it’s safer than other areas?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless it’s a very, very large earthquake you’d probably want to be in the tube. Now we talked about the flooding problem. So if you’re in an earthquake that large it would be problematic, but then so is everywhere else in the Bay Area. So it’s kind of a wash, if you will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To hear more from Tom Horton and the safety of the Transbay Tube, listen to the full episode of Bay Curious at the top of this article.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11618104 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus-800x465.jpg\" alt=\"Since coming online, the fire department has only used the ambulance buses to transport patients once. They transported seniors after a convalescent home lost power in Burlingame.\" width=\"800\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus-160x93.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus-240x140.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus-375x218.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus-520x302.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Since coming online, the Fire Department has used the ambulance buses to transport patients only once. It transported seniors after a convalescent home lost power in Burlingame. \u003ccite>(Eli Wirtshafter/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Response Plan, Ready and Waiting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>All that talk about earthquakes got us thinking — what if something catastrophic did happen in the Bay Area? After the big one, it’s not going to be easy for \u003cem>anyone\u003c/em> to get around. So what will happen to people who really need medical care?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reporter Eli Wirtschafter learned about one unusual tool San Francisco has to address that problem: old Muni buses that have been turned into giant ambulances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea was first used on New Year’s Eve 2010, when big celebrations were planned at the Embarcadero. 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"content": "\u003cp>For years Martin Kunz has been looking down the hill from his office at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, out over the water, at one of the longest piers in California — the Berkeley Pier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see this every day from my office when I have lunch, and I was curious what the history behind this is,” he said. He submitted a question to Bay Curious, so off we went to find the answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lately, the Berkeley Pier has primarily been used as a fishing pier, but decades ago it had a very different purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Berkeley’s Population Boom\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back in the early 20th century, Berkeley was growing fast. Its population went from 13,214 residents in 1900 to 56,036 in 1920. Thousands of refugees from San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake found homes in Berkeley, the University of California experienced rapid expansion and an electric train system connected Berkeley to other Bay Area cities, such as Oakland.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Berkeley was establishing itself as an urban center, yet many of its residents still worked jobs in San Francisco. To get there, workers commuted by train to Oakland and then by boat to San Francisco — an inconvenient journey that makes today’s commute look like a cakewalk. So, in 1926, the Golden Gate Ferry Co. began building a pier that would bring auto ferries to Berkeley. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the construction was finished, the dock was 3½ miles long, making it one of the longest piers in the state. Why so long? Parts of San Francisco Bay are very shallow. Underneath the pier, the water is between 7 and 9 feet deep. The pier needed to reach parts of the bay where the water was deep enough for a ferry to travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A longer dock also meant that the ferry company saved a lot of money. In other words, you had to drive all the way out to the end of the pier and use your gas instead of them using gas for the ferry,” says Chuck Wollenberg, professor of history at Berkeley City College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ferry service began at the pier in 1929. The three boats were named Golden Bear, Golden Poppy and Golden Shore.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10680832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_4560.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10680832 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_4560-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4560\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_4560-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_4560-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_4560-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_4560-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_4560-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_4560-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The end of the pier today is much closer to shore than it once was, but cement pilings can still be seen far across the bay. \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Car Talk\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 1920s saw tremendous growth in the number of Americans driving personal automobiles. Ford’s assembly line made cars more affordable, and it wasn’t long before cars surpassed trains in popularity. After all, this was a time when Republicans claimed that \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Republican prosperity had brought \u003cem>“a chicken in every pot. And a car in every backyard.”\u003c/em> \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">As more cars hit the roa\u003c/span>d, more cars relied on the ferries at the Berkeley Pier, and l\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ines could be long. Whenever Stanford played football against Cal at UC Berkeley, lines would stretch beyond the 3½ miles of pier. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The mother of all traffic jams in the Bay Area occurred at the end of the Labor Day weekend,” says Wollenberg. “There was a four-hour wait. When people tried to cut in, people would take out revolvers and threaten people.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the same thing that created demand for the ferries also brought about the dock’s demise. With the rising popularity of cars, California legislators decided to create a bridge between Alameda County and San Francisco. The same year the ferries started running, engineers began laying plans for the Bay Bridge.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Bay Bridge opened on Nov. 12, 1936. Former President Herbert Hoover watched as California Gov. Frank Merriam cut the ceremonial chain opening the bridge . The Golden Gate Ferry Co. would last only two more years, eventually calling it quits and giving the pier to the city of Berkeley. In total, the Berkeley auto ferries had run less than 10 years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10680824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/16384661292_d921040237_k-e1442176689248.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10680824 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/16384661292_d921040237_k-800x184.jpg\" alt=\"16384661292_d921040237_k\" width=\"800\" height=\"184\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A panorama shows the Berkeley Pier at the right. (Photo by Wayne Hsieh)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>After the Bridge\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Berkeley officials used state and city funds to convert the pier into a recreation area. It opened in spring 1938 and in the first year attracted 50,000 people. The Berkeley Recreation Department charged an admission fee of 10 cents for pedestrians and 25 cents for automobiles.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fishing became a popular pastime on the pier and kids were encouraged to learn. Civic leaders in the ’40s and ’50s even suggested that fishing on the pier could reduce juvenile delinquency in the area.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10680825\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/3710445129_9d3f66e753_o-e1442176636946.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10680825 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/3710445129_9d3f66e753_o-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dozens of people would fish off the Berkeley Pier each day while it was open. (Photo by Robert McNicholas)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Soon, city officials found that maintaining miles of pier could be difficult and expensive. The corrosive effects of salt water took their toll on the dock, and over time sections of pier would be closed, repaired, reopened and then closed again. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Berkeley Marina was also built out over the pier, cutting the pier down to about 2½ miles.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The farthest sections of the pier, which reach nearly to Treasure Island, have been abandoned for decades. Much of the wood has rotted away, so only the cement pilings are left. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sailors have blamed the decaying pier for sinking at least two ships, while fishermen have claimed it creates a fertile breeding ground for marine life.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland resident Phillip Jwell is a longtime fisherman who has enjoyed the pier for years. Cast a line off the pier and you can pull in rays, perch, bass, halibut and even small sharks. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Fishing is a good meditation. It clears your mind and actually helps you out better throughout the week,” says Jwell. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the pier is open Jwell says, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s about 75 people out there fishing usually on a good average.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10680830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10680830 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_45731-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4573\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_45731-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_45731-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_45731-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_45731-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_45731-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_45731-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wiley Rogers captains the Blown Away. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For years Martin Kunz has been looking down the hill from his office at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, out over the water, at one of the longest piers in California — the Berkeley Pier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see this every day from my office when I have lunch, and I was curious what the history behind this is,” he said. He submitted a question to Bay Curious, so off we went to find the answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lately, the Berkeley Pier has primarily been used as a fishing pier, but decades ago it had a very different purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Berkeley’s Population Boom\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back in the early 20th century, Berkeley was growing fast. Its population went from 13,214 residents in 1900 to 56,036 in 1920. Thousands of refugees from San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake found homes in Berkeley, the University of California experienced rapid expansion and an electric train system connected Berkeley to other Bay Area cities, such as Oakland.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Berkeley was establishing itself as an urban center, yet many of its residents still worked jobs in San Francisco. To get there, workers commuted by train to Oakland and then by boat to San Francisco — an inconvenient journey that makes today’s commute look like a cakewalk. So, in 1926, the Golden Gate Ferry Co. began building a pier that would bring auto ferries to Berkeley. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the construction was finished, the dock was 3½ miles long, making it one of the longest piers in the state. Why so long? Parts of San Francisco Bay are very shallow. Underneath the pier, the water is between 7 and 9 feet deep. The pier needed to reach parts of the bay where the water was deep enough for a ferry to travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A longer dock also meant that the ferry company saved a lot of money. In other words, you had to drive all the way out to the end of the pier and use your gas instead of them using gas for the ferry,” says Chuck Wollenberg, professor of history at Berkeley City College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ferry service began at the pier in 1929. The three boats were named Golden Bear, Golden Poppy and Golden Shore.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10680832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_4560.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10680832 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_4560-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4560\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_4560-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_4560-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_4560-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_4560-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_4560-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_4560-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The end of the pier today is much closer to shore than it once was, but cement pilings can still be seen far across the bay. \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Car Talk\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 1920s saw tremendous growth in the number of Americans driving personal automobiles. Ford’s assembly line made cars more affordable, and it wasn’t long before cars surpassed trains in popularity. After all, this was a time when Republicans claimed that \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Republican prosperity had brought \u003cem>“a chicken in every pot. And a car in every backyard.”\u003c/em> \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">As more cars hit the roa\u003c/span>d, more cars relied on the ferries at the Berkeley Pier, and l\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ines could be long. Whenever Stanford played football against Cal at UC Berkeley, lines would stretch beyond the 3½ miles of pier. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The mother of all traffic jams in the Bay Area occurred at the end of the Labor Day weekend,” says Wollenberg. “There was a four-hour wait. When people tried to cut in, people would take out revolvers and threaten people.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the same thing that created demand for the ferries also brought about the dock’s demise. With the rising popularity of cars, California legislators decided to create a bridge between Alameda County and San Francisco. The same year the ferries started running, engineers began laying plans for the Bay Bridge.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Bay Bridge opened on Nov. 12, 1936. Former President Herbert Hoover watched as California Gov. Frank Merriam cut the ceremonial chain opening the bridge . The Golden Gate Ferry Co. would last only two more years, eventually calling it quits and giving the pier to the city of Berkeley. In total, the Berkeley auto ferries had run less than 10 years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10680824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/16384661292_d921040237_k-e1442176689248.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10680824 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/16384661292_d921040237_k-800x184.jpg\" alt=\"16384661292_d921040237_k\" width=\"800\" height=\"184\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A panorama shows the Berkeley Pier at the right. (Photo by Wayne Hsieh)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>After the Bridge\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Berkeley officials used state and city funds to convert the pier into a recreation area. It opened in spring 1938 and in the first year attracted 50,000 people. The Berkeley Recreation Department charged an admission fee of 10 cents for pedestrians and 25 cents for automobiles.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fishing became a popular pastime on the pier and kids were encouraged to learn. Civic leaders in the ’40s and ’50s even suggested that fishing on the pier could reduce juvenile delinquency in the area.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10680825\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/3710445129_9d3f66e753_o-e1442176636946.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10680825 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/3710445129_9d3f66e753_o-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dozens of people would fish off the Berkeley Pier each day while it was open. (Photo by Robert McNicholas)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Soon, city officials found that maintaining miles of pier could be difficult and expensive. The corrosive effects of salt water took their toll on the dock, and over time sections of pier would be closed, repaired, reopened and then closed again. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Berkeley Marina was also built out over the pier, cutting the pier down to about 2½ miles.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The farthest sections of the pier, which reach nearly to Treasure Island, have been abandoned for decades. Much of the wood has rotted away, so only the cement pilings are left. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sailors have blamed the decaying pier for sinking at least two ships, while fishermen have claimed it creates a fertile breeding ground for marine life.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland resident Phillip Jwell is a longtime fisherman who has enjoyed the pier for years. Cast a line off the pier and you can pull in rays, perch, bass, halibut and even small sharks. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Fishing is a good meditation. It clears your mind and actually helps you out better throughout the week,” says Jwell. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the pier is open Jwell says, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s about 75 people out there fishing usually on a good average.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10680830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10680830 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_45731-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4573\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_45731-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_45731-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_45731-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_45731-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_45731-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_45731-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wiley Rogers captains the Blown Away. 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"headTitle": "Parking After the Street Sweeper Passes: Legal or Not? | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>If you live or work in San Francisco, you know landing a 12-hour parking spot on the street is one of those little victories of daily life. It means you don’t have to run out and move your car every couple of hours to avoid the parking ticket. And you don’t have to slink into the parking garage, defeated in your search for a free spot on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a few more bucks in your pocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how much risk is that small victory worth?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashley Ortiz asked Bay Curious: “If you see a street cleaner come through on a street cleaning day, can you park on the block before the end of the NO PARKING time frame that’s posted?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the interest of all parking scofflaws and saints, we set out to find the \u003cem>official\u003c/em> answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11614805\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 350px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11614805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/noparking-800x768.jpg\" alt=\"A street cleaning sign in San Francisco.\" width=\"350\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/noparking-800x768.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/noparking-160x154.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/noparking-1020x979.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/noparking-960x921.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/noparking-240x230.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/noparking-375x360.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/noparking-520x499.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/noparking-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/noparking.jpg 1142w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street cleaning sign in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Penny Nelson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Walking The Parking Enforcement Beat\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I made my way to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, where I met up with traffic enforcement officer Denise Golden. She’s funny, smart and 100 percent no-nonsense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that while people with her job may not be the most well-liked, “without us, it would be chaos. People would never move their vehicles. It would be definitely a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked her Ashley’s question and her answer surprised me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once the street sweeper has gone by, we do permit the vehicle to park curbside,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So — it’s legal!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, beware. There’s a hitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Signs Got You Stumped?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Is there another sign on the street you have a question about? Check out the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/parking/how-park-legally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SFMTA Parking Guide.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Golden went on to say that, in many cases, street cleaning is a four-step process. So, even if you \u003cem>think\u003c/em> you’ve seen the street sweeper go by, you may have actually seen another vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Street Sweeping Process\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first vehicle in the street cleaning parade is the broom support truck. A worker picks up large items off the street – things like big pieces of wood or an abandoned chair — and chucks them into this truck. They’re looking for anything that cannot be vacuumed up by the street sweeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11614806\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 350px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11614806\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/buggy-800x583.jpg\" alt=\"The parking enforcement officer typically comes just before the street sweeper.\" width=\"350\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/buggy-800x583.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/buggy-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/buggy-1020x743.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/buggy-1180x860.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/buggy-960x699.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/buggy-240x175.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/buggy-375x273.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/buggy-520x379.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/buggy.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The parking enforcement officer typically comes just before the street sweeper. \u003ccite>(Penny Nelson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Next comes the street flusher, which is used mostly on commercial streets like Market and Mission. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you live or work in San Francisco, you know landing a 12-hour parking spot on the street is one of those little victories of daily life. It means you don’t have to run out and move your car every couple of hours to avoid the parking ticket. And you don’t have to slink into the parking garage, defeated in your search for a free spot on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a few more bucks in your pocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how much risk is that small victory worth?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashley Ortiz asked Bay Curious: “If you see a street cleaner come through on a street cleaning day, can you park on the block before the end of the NO PARKING time frame that’s posted?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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She’s funny, smart and 100 percent no-nonsense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that while people with her job may not be the most well-liked, “without us, it would be chaos. People would never move their vehicles. It would be definitely a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked her Ashley’s question and her answer surprised me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once the street sweeper has gone by, we do permit the vehicle to park curbside,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So — it’s legal!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, beware. There’s a hitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Signs Got You Stumped?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Is there another sign on the street you have a question about? Check out the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/parking/how-park-legally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SFMTA Parking Guide.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Golden went on to say that, in many cases, street cleaning is a four-step process. So, even if you \u003cem>think\u003c/em> you’ve seen the street sweeper go by, you may have actually seen another vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Street Sweeping Process\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first vehicle in the street cleaning parade is the broom support truck. A worker picks up large items off the street – things like big pieces of wood or an abandoned chair — and chucks them into this truck. They’re looking for anything that cannot be vacuumed up by the street sweeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11614806\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 350px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11614806\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/buggy-800x583.jpg\" alt=\"The parking enforcement officer typically comes just before the street sweeper.\" width=\"350\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/buggy-800x583.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/buggy-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/buggy-1020x743.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/buggy-1180x860.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/buggy-960x699.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/buggy-240x175.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/buggy-375x273.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/buggy-520x379.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/buggy.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The parking enforcement officer typically comes just before the street sweeper. \u003ccite>(Penny Nelson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Next comes the street flusher, which is used mostly on commercial streets like Market and Mission. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>UPDATED on Nov. 21, 2017\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve driven on I-680, across the Benicia–Martinez Bridge, you’ve probably seen them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clusters of old military ships are anchored side by side in Suisun Bay. Most of them are decades old. Their gray hulls are spotted with rust. Much of their paint has faded, or flaked away. Their decks are eerily deserted — no modern equipment, no sailors. They look abandoned, and on a foggy day, maybe even haunted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most people call this the Ghost Fleet, or Mothball Fleet — but its official name is the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Steve Yeager has been wondering about the fleet since he was a kid. He still passes the ships on his weekly commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why are they there? And what is it doing to the environment?” he wants to know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11612545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11612545 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0665-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet in 2005, when there were more than 70 ships anchored there, including the legendary WWII battleship Iowa (foreground), now a floating museum in San Pedro.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0665-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0665-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0665-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0665-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0665-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0665-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0665-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0665-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0665.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet in 2005, when there were more than 70 ships anchored there, including the legendary WWII battleship Iowa (foreground), now a floating museum in San Pedro. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Wartime Surplus\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet is a place for the Navy, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine to park ships that are taken out of service, but \u003cem>might\u003c/em> one day be needed again — kind of like putting those sweaters into the cedar chest every spring. 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Ten remain, including the barge used as the fleet's offices and maintenance base.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7800-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7800-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7800-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7800-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7800-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7800-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7800-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7800-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7800-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7800.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet in 1962. At its peak, the “ghost fleet” had 340 vessels at anchor. Ten remain, including the barge used as the fleet’s offices and maintenance base. \u003ccite>(MARAD)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joe Pecoraro has been managing the Mothball Fleet for nearly 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had just about every kind of Navy ship here except for an aircraft carrier,” Pecoraro says. “We had guided-missile cruisers, frigates. We had a battleship for 10 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The WWII battleship Iowa was a favorite of Pecoraro’s, before it was renovated into a floating museum and moved down to Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11612493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11612493\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7783-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7783-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7783-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7783-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7783-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7783-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7783-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7783-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7783-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7783-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Pecoraro manages the reserve fleet. He’s been tending the ships since 1991. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not all ships have such a glamorous afterlife as the Iowa. Many of them once anchored there were beyond redemption, and were stripped of their parts. Few were ever put back into action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dad used to call it Joe’s rusty navy,” says Pecoraro. “We had a lotta rust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11612485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11612485 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0662-800x600.jpg\" alt='A 2009 study found that 20 tons of contaminants had drained or sloughed off of vessels in the \"mothball fleet\" anchored in Suisun Bay. Measures have since been put in place to protect the bay. ' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0662-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0662-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0662-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0662-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0662-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0662-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0662-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0662-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0662.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2009 study found that 20 tons of contaminants had drained or sloughed off of vessels in the “mothball fleet” anchored in Suisun Bay. Measures have since been put in place to protect the bay. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Environmental Concerns Surface\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some ships in the fleet fell into such disrepair that environmentalists took notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could hear the crunch of the paint chips or the metal under your feet as you were walking across the decks of the ships,” says Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper. “That was just really horrifying because the minute it rained or the minute it got windy, all of that pollution just went right into the bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it wasn’t just rust. Harmful chemicals, lead, hazardous paint and asbestos were all coming off the vessels. Researchers found 20 tons of it had washed off the ships and into the water over the years. It’s an especially big problem because just next to the fleet sits Suisun Marsh — the largest salt marsh in the western United States, and an environmentally sensitive area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11612499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11612499\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0693-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"This 2005 photo shows the proximity of the reserve fleet to environmentally-sensitive Suisun Marsh.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0693-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0693-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0693-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0693-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0693-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0693-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0693-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0693-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0693.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This 2005 photo shows the proximity of the reserve fleet to environmentally sensitive Suisun Marsh. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2009, \u003ca href=\"https://baykeeper.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Baykeeper\u003c/a>, along with other environmental groups and local water quality regulators, sued in federal court under various environmental laws. They won a settlement to get 57 creaky old ships out of Suisun and off to the scrapyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving each ship cost about $1 million and involved a 45-day trip behind a seagoing tug. In August, the last of the scrapped ships were hauled away to Brownsville, Texas, where they are broken down and recycled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the top brass at the U.S. Maritime Administration, known as MARAD, which manages the fleet, agrees it was overdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first ships that left, the first two dozen — someone said we should’ve put them out of their misery years ago. We couldn’t have reactivated them ever if we needed to,” says MARAD executive director Joel Szabat. “We needed to find a way to get rid of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole project cost about $57 million, but a MARAD official says they recouped about $30 million by selling the scrap metal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7787-1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11632569\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7787-1.jpg\" alt='The Petersburg (foreground) is the newest addition to the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet. The Navy tanker is part of the \"Ready Reserve,\" meaning it can deploy quickly if needed.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1396\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7787-1.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7787-1-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7787-1-800x558.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7787-1-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7787-1-1920x1340.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7787-1-1180x824.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7787-1-960x670.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7787-1-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7787-1-375x262.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7787-1-520x363.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Petersburg (foreground) is the newest addition to the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet. The Navy tanker is part of the “Ready Reserve,” meaning it can deploy quickly if needed. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Today’s Fleet\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Though much smaller than it once was, the Ghost Fleet isn’t going away entirely. Today, only nine ships remain, plus the barge used as an office and maintenance base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it seems highly unlikely that we’ll ever see hundreds — or even the dozens of ships that reposed here less than 10 years ago — new ships can be added to the fleet. MARAD recently added a Navy tanker that’s part of the “Ready Reserve.” The Petersburg could be turned around in a few days if called back to duty, and a skeleton crew lives on board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining ships are outfitted with screens and filters to keep pollutants out of the bay, and MARAD now regularly tests the water quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11612543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11612543\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/compare-800x450.jpeg\" alt=\"A satellite view of the fleet in 2009 (left) and 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/compare-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/compare-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/compare-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/compare-1180x664.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/compare-960x540.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/compare-240x135.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/compare-375x211.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/compare-520x293.jpeg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/compare.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A satellite view of the fleet in 2009 (left) and 2017. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.planet.com\" target=\"_blank\">Planet\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what did Steve Yeager, the listener who asked us about the fleet, think of our answer? He’s glad the environmental issues have been addressed, and doesn’t mind that a few ships are hanging around for the next generation to see out of the car window on trips up Interstate 680.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My kids will ask me the same questions, but I’ll have a little more information now that I can tell them,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch this KQED video segment from 2008, when there were still more than 70 ships in Suisun Bay:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/1BHfiaPb5UI\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Steve Yeager has been wondering about the fleet since he was a kid. He still passes the ships on his weekly commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why are they there? And what is it doing to the environment?” he wants to know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11612545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11612545 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0665-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet in 2005, when there were more than 70 ships anchored there, including the legendary WWII battleship Iowa (foreground), now a floating museum in San Pedro.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0665-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0665-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0665-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0665-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0665-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0665-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0665-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0665-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0665.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet in 2005, when there were more than 70 ships anchored there, including the legendary WWII battleship Iowa (foreground), now a floating museum in San Pedro. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Wartime Surplus\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet is a place for the Navy, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine to park ships that are taken out of service, but \u003cem>might\u003c/em> one day be needed again — kind of like putting those sweaters into the cedar chest every spring. Hence the name “Mothball Fleet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suisun Bay was first used for this purpose in 1946. World War II had just ended and the Navy had a huge surplus of vessels. Benicia was one of eight places around the country where rows of mothballed ships were anchored. At its peak, Suisun Bay had 340 ships lined up in neat rows. It was a forest of steel and wires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11612437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11612437 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7800-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet in 1962. At its peak, the “ghost fleet” had 340 vessels at anchor. Ten remain, including the barge used as the fleet's offices and maintenance base.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7800-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7800-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7800-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7800-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7800-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7800-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7800-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7800-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7800-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7800.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet in 1962. At its peak, the “ghost fleet” had 340 vessels at anchor. Ten remain, including the barge used as the fleet’s offices and maintenance base. \u003ccite>(MARAD)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joe Pecoraro has been managing the Mothball Fleet for nearly 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had just about every kind of Navy ship here except for an aircraft carrier,” Pecoraro says. “We had guided-missile cruisers, frigates. We had a battleship for 10 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The WWII battleship Iowa was a favorite of Pecoraro’s, before it was renovated into a floating museum and moved down to Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11612493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11612493\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7783-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7783-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7783-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7783-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7783-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7783-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7783-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7783-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7783-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7783-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Pecoraro manages the reserve fleet. He’s been tending the ships since 1991. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not all ships have such a glamorous afterlife as the Iowa. Many of them once anchored there were beyond redemption, and were stripped of their parts. Few were ever put back into action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dad used to call it Joe’s rusty navy,” says Pecoraro. “We had a lotta rust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11612485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11612485 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0662-800x600.jpg\" alt='A 2009 study found that 20 tons of contaminants had drained or sloughed off of vessels in the \"mothball fleet\" anchored in Suisun Bay. Measures have since been put in place to protect the bay. ' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0662-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0662-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0662-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0662-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0662-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0662-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0662-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0662-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0662.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2009 study found that 20 tons of contaminants had drained or sloughed off of vessels in the “mothball fleet” anchored in Suisun Bay. Measures have since been put in place to protect the bay. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Environmental Concerns Surface\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some ships in the fleet fell into such disrepair that environmentalists took notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could hear the crunch of the paint chips or the metal under your feet as you were walking across the decks of the ships,” says Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper. “That was just really horrifying because the minute it rained or the minute it got windy, all of that pollution just went right into the bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it wasn’t just rust. Harmful chemicals, lead, hazardous paint and asbestos were all coming off the vessels. Researchers found 20 tons of it had washed off the ships and into the water over the years. It’s an especially big problem because just next to the fleet sits Suisun Marsh — the largest salt marsh in the western United States, and an environmentally sensitive area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11612499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11612499\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0693-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"This 2005 photo shows the proximity of the reserve fleet to environmentally-sensitive Suisun Marsh.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0693-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0693-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0693-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0693-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0693-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0693-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0693-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0693-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0693.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This 2005 photo shows the proximity of the reserve fleet to environmentally sensitive Suisun Marsh. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2009, \u003ca href=\"https://baykeeper.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Baykeeper\u003c/a>, along with other environmental groups and local water quality regulators, sued in federal court under various environmental laws. They won a settlement to get 57 creaky old ships out of Suisun and off to the scrapyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving each ship cost about $1 million and involved a 45-day trip behind a seagoing tug. In August, the last of the scrapped ships were hauled away to Brownsville, Texas, where they are broken down and recycled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the top brass at the U.S. Maritime Administration, known as MARAD, which manages the fleet, agrees it was overdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first ships that left, the first two dozen — someone said we should’ve put them out of their misery years ago. We couldn’t have reactivated them ever if we needed to,” says MARAD executive director Joel Szabat. “We needed to find a way to get rid of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole project cost about $57 million, but a MARAD official says they recouped about $30 million by selling the scrap metal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7787-1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11632569\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7787-1.jpg\" alt='The Petersburg (foreground) is the newest addition to the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet. The Navy tanker is part of the \"Ready Reserve,\" meaning it can deploy quickly if needed.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1396\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7787-1.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7787-1-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7787-1-800x558.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7787-1-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7787-1-1920x1340.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7787-1-1180x824.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7787-1-960x670.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7787-1-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7787-1-375x262.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_7787-1-520x363.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Petersburg (foreground) is the newest addition to the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet. The Navy tanker is part of the “Ready Reserve,” meaning it can deploy quickly if needed. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Today’s Fleet\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Though much smaller than it once was, the Ghost Fleet isn’t going away entirely. Today, only nine ships remain, plus the barge used as an office and maintenance base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it seems highly unlikely that we’ll ever see hundreds — or even the dozens of ships that reposed here less than 10 years ago — new ships can be added to the fleet. MARAD recently added a Navy tanker that’s part of the “Ready Reserve.” The Petersburg could be turned around in a few days if called back to duty, and a skeleton crew lives on board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining ships are outfitted with screens and filters to keep pollutants out of the bay, and MARAD now regularly tests the water quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11612543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11612543\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/compare-800x450.jpeg\" alt=\"A satellite view of the fleet in 2009 (left) and 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/compare-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/compare-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/compare-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/compare-1180x664.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/compare-960x540.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/compare-240x135.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/compare-375x211.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/compare-520x293.jpeg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/compare.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A satellite view of the fleet in 2009 (left) and 2017. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.planet.com\" target=\"_blank\">Planet\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what did Steve Yeager, the listener who asked us about the fleet, think of our answer? He’s glad the environmental issues have been addressed, and doesn’t mind that a few ships are hanging around for the next generation to see out of the car window on trips up Interstate 680.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My kids will ask me the same questions, but I’ll have a little more information now that I can tell them,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch this KQED video segment from 2008, when there were still more than 70 ships in Suisun Bay:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland is home to the fifth-busiest container port in the country, and all around it containers are stacked sky-high like colorful, life-size Lego bricks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listener Ajith Kumar asked Bay Curious:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“Why are there millions of containers in West Oakland? How much trade is happening via those containers every month?”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met port spokesman Mike Zampa at the edge of the seaport, where we could see ships coming in and thousands of 20-foot-long containers piled up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11608045\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11608045\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0317.JPG-1020x765.jpeg\" alt=\"Mike Zampa at the Oakland Port.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0317.JPG-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0317.JPG-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0317.JPG-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0317.JPG-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0317.JPG-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0317.JPG-960x720.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0317.JPG-240x180.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0317.JPG-375x281.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/IMG_0317.JPG-520x390.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Zampa at the Oakland Port. \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The port handles about 2.5 million containers every year. Some of those are empty, either to be filled here or filled elsewhere. As for loaded containers, the port hit a record last year when it handled 1.9 million of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost everything can be, and is, sent by container ship, Zampa says. From palm trees to racehorses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You name it, you’ll find it in a container,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Ship Size Matters\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As for the ships, they keep getting bigger to handle more volume. The biggest ships are longer than the Empire State Building is tall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you tip the Empire State Building on its side, the biggest ships coming to Oakland are bigger,” Zampa says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your average ship can hold about 14,000 containers. Last year, the biggest ship that came to Oakland could hold more than 18,000 containers. According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21432226\">the BBC\u003c/a>, a ship that big could fit 36,000 cars or 863 million tins of baked beans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is one of the reasons shipping by sea is more efficient than shipping by air, Zampa says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you put all that cargo on airplanes, how many airplanes would it take? I couldn’t tell you,” he says. “But that’s a lot more exhaust being emitted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comparing the cargo space of an average freighter ship to the cargo space of a 747 airplane, it would take roughly 630 planes to move as much as a single ship. The difference is time. On average it takes a couple of weeks for a container ship to cross the Pacific from Asia.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A ‘Star Wars’ Connection?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>We’ve been asked if the cranes at the port inspired \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Nah-dude-they-weren-t-cranes-they-were-garbage-3279459.php\">George Lucas\u003c/a> to create the AT-AT snow walkers in “The Empire Strikes Back.” It turns out that they did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zampa says the port is still special, just not in a Hollywood way. One way it stands out is that this American port exports more than it imports. And that’s not the case with most other U.S. ports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most other U.S. ports are heavily skewed toward imports,” Zampa says. “That reflects the trade imbalance that the U.S. has with the rest of the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imports mostly come from Asia via Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11608071\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11608071\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/24403336465_49f9e0b920_z.jpg\" alt='The \"Benjamin Franklin\", a cargo ship capable of carrying 18,000 containers.' width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/24403336465_49f9e0b920_z.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/24403336465_49f9e0b920_z-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/24403336465_49f9e0b920_z-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/24403336465_49f9e0b920_z-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/24403336465_49f9e0b920_z-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Benjamin Franklin, a cargo ship capable of carrying 18,000 containers. \u003ccite>(Eric Garcetti/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What’s in the Containers?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Imports include apparel, consumer electronics, consumer goods, glass and a variety of household items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland port exports lots of dried fruits and nuts, wine and other beverages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zampa says demand from Asia is growing for American farm products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their middle-class populations have exploded, and as the middle class develops, it develops middle-class tastes,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major export out of Oakland? Paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because of all the cardboard boxes we use to package our goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you think about it, everything you buy is going to come in a cardboard box,” Zampa says. “The West Coast sends a lot of scrap paper to Asia to make cardboard boxes that then get filled with goods and shipped back here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The port’s busiest season comes in late summer and early fall as American retailers stock up for the holidays. Last year, the port’s busiest month was August, when more than 220,000 containers came or went.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why Not San Francisco?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>San Francisco was once the major port in Northern California, but when container shipping emerged, Zampa says San Francisco no longer had the land to handle containers. Oakland did. Today there are hundreds of acres of land devoted to container shipping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland port has the advantage of being close to lots of cities and easily connecting to railway lines. About 10 percent to 20 percent of the containers head on to rail, destined for places like Salt Lake City or Denver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the majority of the container cargo is loaded onto trucks and taken to destinations in Northern California and western Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21432226\">the BBC\u003c/a>, a ship that big could fit 36,000 cars or 863 million tins of baked beans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is one of the reasons shipping by sea is more efficient than shipping by air, Zampa says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you put all that cargo on airplanes, how many airplanes would it take? I couldn’t tell you,” he says. “But that’s a lot more exhaust being emitted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comparing the cargo space of an average freighter ship to the cargo space of a 747 airplane, it would take roughly 630 planes to move as much as a single ship. The difference is time. On average it takes a couple of weeks for a container ship to cross the Pacific from Asia.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A ‘Star Wars’ Connection?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>We’ve been asked if the cranes at the port inspired \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Nah-dude-they-weren-t-cranes-they-were-garbage-3279459.php\">George Lucas\u003c/a> to create the AT-AT snow walkers in “The Empire Strikes Back.” It turns out that they did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zampa says the port is still special, just not in a Hollywood way. One way it stands out is that this American port exports more than it imports. And that’s not the case with most other U.S. ports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most other U.S. ports are heavily skewed toward imports,” Zampa says. “That reflects the trade imbalance that the U.S. has with the rest of the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imports mostly come from Asia via Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11608071\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11608071\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/24403336465_49f9e0b920_z.jpg\" alt='The \"Benjamin Franklin\", a cargo ship capable of carrying 18,000 containers.' width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/24403336465_49f9e0b920_z.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/24403336465_49f9e0b920_z-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/24403336465_49f9e0b920_z-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/24403336465_49f9e0b920_z-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/24403336465_49f9e0b920_z-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Benjamin Franklin, a cargo ship capable of carrying 18,000 containers. \u003ccite>(Eric Garcetti/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What’s in the Containers?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Imports include apparel, consumer electronics, consumer goods, glass and a variety of household items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland port exports lots of dried fruits and nuts, wine and other beverages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zampa says demand from Asia is growing for American farm products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their middle-class populations have exploded, and as the middle class develops, it develops middle-class tastes,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major export out of Oakland? 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