But he wasn't sure if he'd voted for the Republicans or the Democrats, which was, I thought, really kind of nice insight on what people out to Canary Wharf to Lehman Brothers to deliver receivership notices worth $33 billion and getting paid 2 pound 50 for each delivery
Yeah, and it's worth saying, I did this alongside a day job. I was an oil trader in Canary Wharf for BP for 16 years, and a chunk of my time was in the Royal Marines Reserve, as well, which is a little bit of the inspiration around using your mind and your body.
faces the Porter Square bookstore. There is the city's coal wharf .
This is terrible. Not saying like they're in a not-cool neighborhood. They're going to Fisherman's Wharf . And they're like, well, I had this chowder bowl, and this is San Francisco food.
That's something atypical of what a lot of the sour beers that are out there in the market-- those are usually kettle sours, which they kind of cook it We're building Boston Tap Room on Lovejoy Wharf right next to the garden.
So net zero energy has gotten the financial thumbs up. They've just restored an old pier down by the wharf that is 300,000 square feet and will be net zero energy.
A lot of people don't know that Hyde Street Pier exists. They don't want to go down to Fisherman's Wharf because of the dense tourist experience. But if you just brave it a little bit further, you find this incredible park and these incredible boats.
you next year." And the nurses heard me and the doctors heard me and they come up to me afterwards and said "Joe don't be stupid. Set realistic goals. You won't be able to do anything like that for another couple of years." There was this wharf to wharf event, which I think is like 10k in Santa Cruz, which is where you jog from one pier to the other pier and a few friends were doing it. So I said "I'll do it with you." And they went "You sure?" and I went "Yeah, I will do it with you." And I told the doctors about this
Yeah. I love it. My father's a career-long fishmonger over here at Pier 45, Fisherman's Wharf . My mother was a seamstress.
Buffalo and my gears and a locker at the station I've been outside the Coliseum since 9:00 it's cold but no one cares there must be five thousand people behind me the line travels all the way down the ramp to the wharf where it looks more carnival than cue the rivers got ice floes that was so foggy you could hardly make them out guy next to
few years, she had felt herself growing restless, yearning for freedom from the domestic obligations that came with continuing to live at home. Though the cares of Boston frightened her, the noise and heat of the train, the looming shadow of steamers discharging immigrants on Indian Wharf where vendors sold peppered oyster soaked in vinegar near the overcrowded tenements. She loved th excitement and freedom of the city. With her family she had bounced between Boston and Concord over the years, but never had the chance to live in a city
He lifted a lid and reached inside and plucked out the Barbie head, stretched and distorted, skinned with a Campbell’s Soup label. He handed it to Suzanne. She expected it to be warm, like a squashed penny from a machine on Fisherman’s Wharf , but it was cool and had the seamless texture of a plastic margarine tub and the heft of a paperweight. “So, that’s the business,” Lester said. “Or so we’re told. We’ve been making cool stuff and selling it to collectors on the web for you know, gigantic bucks. We move
faces the Porter Square bookstore. About river transportation, the schooners that went up to wharfs in Harvard Square and even into Watertown until 1900.
faces the Porter Square bookstore. This slide's not very clear, but that's the stern of a two-masted schooner that's tied up at a wharf here.
Oh please, yes. OK. So this is my biggest surprise from working on the book, is I came to San Francisco in the 1990s, I enjoyed eating sourdough, I went to Fisherman's Wharf , I had the whole experience.
We have a show there right now. As well as a five-year cooperative agreement with San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, which is, if you brave Fisherman's Wharf and get through that, right after Fisherman's Wharf and kind of before Ghirardelli Square, right in that area is Hyde Street Pier.
everything that just brought it to life. And to me, the stories are what captivate people, because it gives them something to, to really key into. You're not just eating a taco. You're eating taco that is like the way they make it -- the street vendors make it on the wharf in Vera Cruz. And when you see them do that, and they sear that red chili cured pork in a, on a hot,
And I'll hang out in Rue Cler, but I would think it's just in the interest of honesty, it would be good to spent half a day out here seeing what's it's like. I mean, the lunch I just had here was more America, I think, than a lunch I might have had down on the wharf or something like that. So these are the reality checks we can give ourselves. Having said that, it then is okay, I think