Word: oaklanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pullman berth, was hospitalized with a broken left shoulder. On each of the three anniversary days, some 20 to 30 others were bedded with rheumatics, colds, shock, weariness. That was not bad, for their average age was 94. Oldest was Negro William A. Barnes, 112, of Oakland. Calif., who brought an ample gin supply. Youngest were several of 88, who were 13 (having lied about their age) that afternoon when Pickett's charge lapped the crest of Cemetery Ridge and rolled back crushing the hopes of the Confederacy...
Peninsular San Francisco was linked in 1936 to busy, populous, mainland Oakland by the 8½-mile San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge. In 1937 it was joined to sparsely settled, residential Marin County, across the Gate, by the mighty Golden Gate Span. Before that, motorists used to pay a minimum toll of 60? to be barged over the same routes on ferries owned by the Southern Pacific Company. Last year, with both bridges charging a 50? toll, the ferries began to undersell them by charging 30? one way, 50? round trip. San Francisco suspected that the Southern Pacific...
Last week the Railroad Commission brought forth a Solomonesque decision. Southern Pacific's Gate ferry to Marin County's Sausalito landing, paralleling the deficit-ridden Golden Gate Bridge, must cease operation by July 28. Its Bay ferry, flanking the money-making San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge, may continue to operate at its present rates. Reasons: the Sausalito Ferry, which was losing money at the rate of $200,000 annually, "should not be permitted to injure itself . . . for the purpose of diverting traffic from its competitor." The Bay ferry, economically justified (seven-month net operating profit, as of February...
...haired Donald Budge of Oakland, Calif.: the French hard-court tennis championship; in his first attempt; trouncing Czech Roderich Menzel in the final, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4; at Auteuil. Champion of the U. S., England, Australia and France, Budge at 23 is the first tennist in history to hold the "Big Four" titles at one time. Australia's Jack Crawford and England's Fred Perry each held three simultaneously, never could capture the fourth...
...quiet satisfaction was the general manager's son, Walter Curtin, who kept a diary. "As I look back on the most enjoyable vacation I ever had," he observes, "it was worth all it cost to have such a wonderful year of silence." Last week, Mr. Curtin, now an Oakland, Calif, businessman, published his diary in a 299-page book which made good reading for its picture of gold-rush days, but which sounded like something by Ring Lardner in its grave, adolescent comments on the turbulent life aboard the Yukoner. Fights and uproar left young Walter unmoved. "When...