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40-671: Skygate is an outdoor 1985 stainless steel sculpture by Roger Barr, installed along the Embarcadero in San Francisco , California, in the United States. The sculpture was the first piece of public art along the Embarcadero. As inscribed on the plaque placed on the ground nearby, this artwork is dedicated to American philosopher Eric Hoffer . This article about a sculpture in California
80-711: A ballot measure to issue $ 425 million in bonds to finance part of the project in November 2016. Delta Queen Delta Queen is an American sternwheel steamboat . She is known for cruising the major rivers that constitute the tributaries of the Mississippi River , particularly in the American South , although she began service in California on the Sacramento River delta for which she gets her name. She
120-455: A capacity of 176 passengers. Her cross-compound steam engines generate 2,000 indicated horsepower (1,500 kW), powering a stern -mounted paddlewheel . Built in 1927, she is the last surviving steam-powered overnight passenger boat plying the watershed of the Mississippi . In 1989, she was designated a National Historic Landmark . Originally, she was built as an equal to her sister ship,
160-588: A floating boutique hotel, as it was feared the vessel could be vandalized if she remained in New Orleans. Under lease to Chattanooga businessman Harry Phillips, she was docked at Coolidge Park Landing on Chattanooga's North Shore. The Delta Queen Hotel officially opened for overnight guests on June 5, 2009, offering dining, a lounge, live period music, and theatrical performances, closing to the public in December 2014. From 2006 to 2008 Ambassadors International , owned
200-467: A grand palm-lined boulevard was created, squares and plazas were created and/or restored, and Muni 's N Judah and T Third Street and F Market & Wharves lines were extended to run along it, with the N and T lines going south from Market Street to Fourth and King Streets (at Oracle Park and the Caltrain station ) and the F line going north from Market to Fisherman's Wharf . The Muni also relaunched
240-652: A plan to have the Delta Queen removed from its mooring in Chattanooga, as he considered it an "obstruction". A deadline of September 30, 2013 was given. This dispute seemed to rest on the Delta Queen having not paid its rent, which the owners of the Delta Queen had disputed on their Facebook page. This news was in light of the Delta Queen being honored as a "National Treasure" by the National Trust for Historic Preservation on September 21, 2013. Congress voted on giving
280-596: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Embarcadero (San Francisco) The Embarcadero ( Spanish for "Embarkment") is the eastern waterfront of Port of San Francisco and a major roadway in San Francisco , California . It was constructed on reclaimed land along a three mile long engineered seawall , from which piers extend into the bay. It derives its name from the Spanish verb embarcar , meaning "to embark"; embarcadero itself means "the place to embark." The Central Embarcadero Piers Historic District
320-537: Is her steam calliope , mounted on the Texas deck aft of the pilothouse. It covers approximately three octaves, and was used to play the ship in and out of her berth while she was docking and undocking. The Master of the Delta Queen sometimes extended this courtesy to other vessels as well. In 1974, Charlie Waller & The Country Gentlemen recorded a song on their Remembrances & Forecasts album written by Leroy Drumm and Pete Goble titled Delta Queen, to which Leroy
360-542: Is in need of upgrades in order to ensure its integrity in the event of a major earthquake. As of February 2018 the Port of San Francisco , the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency , and several other departments are partnering to deliver a project to upgrade the seawall and adjoining public spaces. The project is expected to cost at least $ 2 billion, and the city successfully passed
400-607: Is still docked in Houma LA, with no evidence of work being done. In 2008, the Delta Queen was forced to retire from service when her Congressional Exemption from the 1966 Safety at Sea act expired. The law intended to prohibit ocean-bound vessels from carrying overnight passengers unless completely made of non-combustible materials included the Delta Queen, even though she was never more than several hundred yards (metres) from shore. Congress approved nine exemptions over four decades to allow
440-754: The Delta King , which is currently moored in Sacramento . The hull, first two decks, and steam engines were ordered in 1924 from the William Denny & Brothers shipyard on the River Leven adjoining the River Clyde at Dumbarton , Scotland . Delta Queen and her sister, Delta King , were shipped in pieces to Stockton, California in 1926. There the California Transportation Company assembled
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#1732869956857480-561: The Central Embarcadero Piers Historic District . The Delta Queen docked at Pier 1½, ferrying people between San Francisco and Sacramento . There was once a pedestrian footbridge that connected Market Street directly with the Ferry building and a subterranean roadway to move cars below the plaza. During World War II , San Francisco's waterfront became a military logistics center; troops, equipment and supplies left
520-485: The Delta Queen an exemption to allow it to travel the rivers again in 2013, but the exemption bill failed to pass. The Delta Queen was then bought by the newly formed Delta Queen Steamboat Co. in early 2015. It departed Chattanooga for restoration in New Orleans on March 22, 2015. for repairs and upgrades in Houma, Louisiana . She safely arrived on April 7, 2015, in her temporary slip for restoration. As of January 3, 2024, she
560-569: The Embarcadero Freeway being built in the 1950s. This improved automobile access to the Bay Bridge , but detracted aesthetically from the city. For 30 years, the freeway divided the waterfront and the Ferry Building from downtown. It was torn down in 1991, after being severely damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake . After the freeway had been cleared, massive redevelopment began as
600-755: The Hyatt Regency San Francisco , located between the Ferry Building and the foot of Market Street. Until 2001, there was a viewing deck on top of the Embarcadero Center. During the winter holidays, the edges of all four buildings are illuminated, the effect resembling the outlines of four giant books on a shelf. At the eastern end of Market Street is Embarcadero Plaza, opened in 1972 and originally named Justin Herman Plaza, for M. Justin Herman , head of
640-863: The Kentucky Derby Festival , when she raced with the Belle of Louisville on the Ohio at Louisville in the Great Steamboat Race . The winner of the annual race received a trophy of golden antlers , which was mounted on the pilothouse until the next race. They also raced during the Tall Stacks festivals celebrating steamboats, held every three or four years in Cincinnati ( Delta Queen ' s former home port). On August 1, 2007, Majestic America Line announced that Delta Queen would cease operations permanently at
680-619: The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency from 1959 to 1971. Right along the Embarcadero Center is the Embarcadero YMCA, the city's flagship branch of a group of a dozen locales. The center features the unique Youth Chance High School , an alternative high school that is a magnet for troubled students from throughout the Bay Area. The Embarcadero seawall is over a century old, originally constructed between 1878 and 1916, and
720-579: The United States Navy for duty in San Francisco Bay as USS Delta Queen (YHB-7/YFB-56). During the war, the vessels were painted battleship gray and used in transporting wounded from ocean-going ships in San Francisco Bay to area hospitals. Three different United States Presidents have sailed on Delta Queen : Herbert Hoover , Harry Truman , and Jimmy Carter . In 1946, Delta Queen
760-507: The 1920s. During the early-20th century when the seaport was at its busiest and before the construction of the Bay Bridge , Pier 1 , Pier 1½ , Pier 3 and Pier 5 were dedicated chiefly to inland trade and transport. These connections facilitated the growth of communities in the Sacramento- and San Joaquin Valleys and fostered California's agricultural business. Today, these piers comprise
800-784: The Columbia and Snake Rivers in Oregon and Washington, and the Alaska Inside Passage. Delta Queen cruised the Mississippi River and its tributaries on a regular schedule, with cruises ranging from New Orleans to Memphis to St. Louis to St. Paul to Cincinnati to Pittsburgh, and many more. On some cruises, the vessel probed rivers such as the Arkansas , Red , Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway , Black Warrior , Mobile , and more. Delta Queen recreated historic steamboat races each year during
840-619: The Delta Queen to continue operations until 2008. On November 27, 2018, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to reinstate an exemption to allow the Delta Queen Steamboat to return to service after a decade-long retirement. Mary Becker Greene , wife of Greene Line founder Gordon C. Greene and a riverboat Captain in her own right, died aboard the boat on April 22, 1949. Guests and employees have reported sounds and activity on board which they attribute to her spirit, particularly around her former quarters. A paranormal investigation of
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#1732869956857880-769: The Great American Steamboat Company of Memphis, Tennessee was booking cruises on American Queen along the Upper and Lower Mississippi River. On May 14, 2013, the bill To amend title 46, United States Code, to extend the exemption from the fire-retardant materials construction requirement for vessels operating within the Boundary Line (H.R. 1961; 113th Congress) was introduced into the United States House of Representatives by Rep. Steve Chabot (R, OH-1) . The mayor of Chattanooga, Andy Berke, put into motion
920-547: The House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, tried to block the 1970 exemption. Thanks to the efforts of Betty Blake and Bill Muster, the Delta Queen was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and was subsequently declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989. The business continued with its name changing in 1973 to The Delta Queen Steamboat Company. One unusual feature of Delta Queen
960-609: The Port in support of the Pacific theater. Almost every pier and wharf was involved in military activities, with troop ships and naval vessels tied up all along the Embarcadero. However, after the completion of the Bay Bridge and the rapid decline of ferries and the Ferry Building, the neighborhood fell into decline. The transition to container shipping , which moved most shipping to Oakland , led to further decline. Automobile transit efforts led to
1000-448: The board of Greene Line Steamers, Jay Quinby testified before the Senate to ask for an exemption to the law. Greene Line had to renegotiate the exemption every two to four years. The boat's Betty Blake Lounge is named in honor of the woman who rose from public relations officer to savior of the boat when Congressman Edward A. Garmatz , a Democrat who represented Baltimore and was Chairman of
1040-448: The boat and leased it to a company called All Aboard Travel, operating as Delta Queen LLC, which began leasing the vessel in August 2010. Ambassadors International listed the ship for sale beginning in late 2008 at a price of $ 4.75 million, and in November 2010 it was announced that a group called Save the Delta Queen 2010 was planning to place a bid to purchase the ship. If it succeeded,
1080-565: The boat created a renewed "Save the Delta Queen" campaign similar to the one undertaken in the 1970s. However, at the end of the 2008 season, Delta Queen ceased all service. On her official website, the Majestic America Line announced it is ending all operations, would not operate in 2009, and that its assets, including all its riverboats, were for sale. On February 11, 2009, Delta Queen arrived in Chattanooga, Tennessee , to become
1120-420: The city grew, the cove was filled. Over fifty years a large offshore seawall was built and the mudflats filled, creating what today is San Francisco's Financial District . The San Francisco Belt Railroad , a short line railroad for freight, ran along The Embarcadero; its former enginehouse has been preserved. The roadway follows the seawall , a boundary first established in the 1860s and not completed until
1160-640: The end of the 2008 season. The temporary exemption from SOLAS needed to keep Delta Queen running was being ended by Congress . In response to this announcement, in September 2007, the Member of the Scottish Parliament for Dumbarton , Jackie Baillie , backed by 15 other Members, submitted a motion to the Scottish Parliament calling for the preservation of the ship. In the United States, devotees of
1200-596: The group would place the ship into operation, carrying only 49 people in order to be exempt from federal fire safety regulations, which apply to ships carrying upwards of 50 people. For a time, with the steamer American Queen turned over to MARAD and Mississippi Queen sold for scrap below New Orleans, Delta Queen was the only steamboat to have been owned by the Delta Queen Steamboat Company (formerly Greene Line Steamers) to remain in service, albeit without running trips. However, as of November 2011,
1240-470: The seawall. Embarcadero Station , a BART and Muni Metro subway station, is located at the foot of Market Street, one block from The Embarcadero. While not in the original transit system plans, it has become the most highly trafficked BART station. As it is an infill station , the design is unique among the Market Street subway . Embarcadero Center consists of four 30 to 45 story buildings and
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1280-579: The two vessels for their regular Sacramento River service between San Francisco and Sacramento , and excursions to Stockton, on the San Joaquin River . At the time, they were the most lavishly appointed and expensive sternwheel passenger boats ever commissioned. Driven out of service by a new highway linking Sacramento with San Francisco in 1940, the two vessels were laid up and then purchased by Isbrandtsen Steamship Lines for service out of New Orleans . During World War II , they were requisitioned by
1320-491: The vessel has changed seven times over fifty years. Richard Simonton bought a controlling interest in the Greene Line in 1958 when it was in financial difficulty. In 1966, Congress passed the first Safety at Sea Law that would put the Delta Queen out of business. After consulting with attorney William Kohler, Richard Simonton, Bill Muster , and Edwin "Jay" Quinby traveled to Washington, DC, to save their boat. As chairman of
1360-757: The ‘E’ line which was historically a seasonal service connecting Fishermans' Wharf to the Caltrain Depot, the line now operates weekends between Jefferson and Jones adjacent Fisherman's Wharf and Fourth and King streets near the Caltrain terminus. The sidewalk along the waterfront between China Basin and Fisherman's Wharf was named "Herb Caen Way..." after the death of celebrated local columnist Herb Caen in 1997. The three dots, or ellipsis , deliberately are included in honor of columnist Herb Caen's Pulitzer Prize winning writing style. A large public sculpture, Cupid's Span , by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen ,
1400-554: Was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 20, 2002. The Embarcadero right-of-way begins at the intersection of Second and King Streets near Oracle Park , and travels north, passing under the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge . The Embarcadero continues north past the Ferry Building at Market Street , Pier 39 , and Fisherman's Wharf , before ending at Pier 45 . A section of The Embarcadero which ran between Folsom Street and Drumm Street
1440-452: Was docked in Chattanooga , Tennessee and served as a floating hotel until purchased by the newly formed Delta Queen Steamboat Company . She was towed to Houma, Louisiana , in March 2015 for refurbishing to her original condition. The STR Delta Queen is 285 feet (87 m) long, 58 feet (18 m) wide, and draws 11.5 feet (3.5 m). She weighs 1,650 tons (1,676 metric tons ), with
1480-759: Was formerly known as East Street. For three decades, until it was torn down in 1991, the Embarcadero Freeway dominated the area. The subsequent redevelopment and restoration efforts have, according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation , "contributed to a remarkable urban waterfront renaissance", with the Embarcadero Historic District serving as a "major economic engine for the Bay Area". San Francisco's shoreline historically ran south and inland from Clark's Point below Telegraph Hill to present-day Montgomery Street and eastward toward Rincon Point, enclosing an inlet named Yerba Buena Cove . As
1520-717: Was inspired to write after having seen her running down the Tennessee River in the early 1970s. Majestic America Line most recently operated the vessel. The vessels were purchased from the Delaware North Companies in April 2006. Besides Delta Queen , the company also owned the American Queen and Mississippi Queen , modern steamboats designed along Delta Queen ' s lines but carrying around 400 passengers. The company also owned riverboats that have seen service on
1560-611: Was installed in 2002 along the Rincon Park area. Resembling Cupid 's bow and arrow with the arrow implanted in the ground, the artists stated that the statue was inspired by San Francisco's reputation as the home port of Eros, hence the stereotypical bow and arrow of Cupid. In 2016, the Embarcadero was named on the list of "11 Most Endangered Historic Places" in the US by the National Trust for Historic Preservation , citing "the dual natural threats of sea-level rise and seismic vulnerability" to
1600-615: Was purchased by Greene Line of Cincinnati, Ohio and towed via the Panama Canal and the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers for refurbishment in Pittsburgh . On that ocean trip she was piloted by Frederick Way, Jr. In 1948 she entered regular passenger service, plying the waters of the Ohio, Mississippi, Tennessee , and Cumberland Rivers between Cincinnati, New Orleans, St. Paul , Chattanooga , Nashville , and ports in between. Ownership of
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