Word: ferryboat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pier near the foot of Market Street in San Diego sits one of the strangest arks since Noah abandoned his on top of Mount Ararat. Once it was a two-deck ferryboat named the Point Loma that carried some 480 passengers on its regular run between San Diego and Coronado. Rendered obsolete by a bridge, the shallow-draft vessel was sold two years ago for $15,000 to a Franciscan missionary named Luke Tupper, who began to install two medical clinics, an operating room, two dental clinics and a pharmacy. He also provided a new name: the Esperanto (Portuguese...
...Indeed the two islands, once havens of rural serenity, have already become, in their rural way, boom towns. Every summer the permanent population of 10,000 swells to a new high-50,000 now, nearly double the summer crowd of ten years ago. Over the past five years, the ferryboat traffic from the mainland has increased by almost 50%, to some 500,000 passengers a year...
...York City ferryboat became a Mississippi stern-wheeler for a day -tootling its way up the Hudson River to the infectious quicksteps of three Dixieland jazz bands. A ballroom at the Commodore Hotel seemed to go through a time warp to the 1930s, as kids in jeans and matrons in long gowns bobbed, swayed and shuffled to the strains of Count Basic and Sy Oliver...
That inevitability has not quashed the passions of antiMarket Britons. Last week a determined group of them boarded the ferryboat Invicta at Dover and sailed across the English Channel to Calais to demonstrate against Britain's entry into the Common Market. The police were sanguine when the demonstrators unfurled banners reading "L'Entente Cordiale mais pas un mariage." But when they began to shout "Down with Pompidou!" French flics rushed aboard the ferry, tossed the banners overboard and reportedly roughed up some of the passengers...
...Golden Gate Bridge was opened in 1937 after years of haggling with San Francisco Bay ferryboat owners and skeptics who said that it could not be done. At first, traffic was so light that some toll collectors on the graveyard shift set garbage-can lids in the approach lanes to warn themselves of oncoming vehicles. But business soon picked up, and now runs to 33 million vehicles a year. The bridge has attracted more than cars. It gained an unfortunate reputation as one of America's most melodramatic suicide sites. Last week a 65-year-old woman became...