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...surveyed. For the first time in two decades, industrial investors, put off by bureaucratic red tape and environmental lobbyists, are bypassing California to relocate in other Sunbelt states. Statewide per capita income is still above the national average, but it is declining , as are the populations of Los Angeles, Oakland and San Francisco...
...Delays of 30 min. or more: 967. Accessibility: fair. Allow 25 to 40 min. for 16-mile ride downtown by car or cab ($15). Buses every 15 min. until 10 p.m., every half-hour until midnight, then according to flight arrivals. Airport and Greyhound coaches three times daily to Oakland ($1.50) and to San Jose ($3.50). Four commuter airlines. Parking: inadequate. Close-in covered garage with valet service, two far-out lots with frequent shuttle-bus service. Flow Through: fair. Curbside checkin. No baggage carts. Two terminals linked by shuttle buses, one 500-ft. moving sidewalk leading to concourse area...
Uncle Al Silverstone Oakland, Calif...
Little Joe, as he has been called since high school days in Oakland (he is 5 ft. 7 in., 162 lbs.), pilots a blue-and-green 1977 Cadillac these days and is building a four-bedroom house on 2.6 acres above San Francisco Bay. "But I haven't changed," he insists. "I'm still concerned about doing well. I have a chance for a batting title this year. It keeps me pushing." Joe, who has been married for ten years to his high school sweetheart, says that he would marry her again tomorrow. He takes college courses...
...cane. It seems a bizarre role for a onetime Wall Street investment banker with degrees in law, business administration and economics. But Uncle Al, the Kiddies' Pal, as he thinks of himself, is not just living out a childhood fantasy. The owner of Oakland's U.S. Chewing Gum Manufacturing Co. since 1974, he pumps gum like Fuller pumped brushes. "We'll do about $6 million this year," he says happily. "About 1.5 billion gumballs." Early in 1976 Uncle Al became a millionaire. He has jawbreaking novelties such as a nonmelting ice cream cone in 28 flavors...