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Sitting on the dock of the bay wasting time. Ah whistle along with me, yall. [whistling] yeah [whistling] thank you. applause [cheering and applauding] other than that, how about a San Francisco welcome . [cheering and applauding] now, a few words about otis redding and that absolutely gorgeous song. Can you think of a better song for this great wharf . As you probably know, otis redding was in San Francisco to perform at the fillmore in the summer of 1967 and he found himself for a week on a sa...

88. We are at Mount Davidson and it has the highest point of elevation in San Francisco hitting a whopping 928 feet. Mt. Davidson provides a peaceful 30acre owe ace and great hiking trails. The spectacular views offers a Perfect Place to watch the sunrise or suffer sun set with someone you louvre, wear sturdy shows to conquer the stone trails and denly inventory advantage gives you hikers the sensation of being in a rain forest its quite a hike to the top here at Mount Davidson but the view than...

Whistle along with me, yall. [whistling] yeah [whistling] thank you. applause [cheering and applauding] other than that, how about a San Francisco welcome . [cheering and applauding] now, a few words about otis redding and that absolutely gorgeous song. Can you think of a better song for this great wharf . As you probably know, otis redding was in San Francisco to perform at the fillmore in the summer of 1967 and he found himself for a week on a sauselito house boat. On the bay came the inspirat...

Ironically, with a small little abandoned swath of land that has grown up to become the cuseda garden. And its the thought child and the physical manifestation of hard work, of a few Community Leaders that got together and rolled up their sleeves and got to work. And tonight i have the honor to introduce one of the cofounders, his name is jeffery betcher. Where are you . Get up here. And jeff is going to introduce to you as he escorts ms. Annette young smith to the stage. This lady, ladies and g...

Lot. The scare you part is that commissioner arce, youre absolutely right. They could set the not to exceed rate next week. They could move forward with a Shell Program and no other program, which as i said is only less than 4 of what we envision. So, but with that said, the reason that advocates have recently voted and said to the sfpuc and to lafco we would like them to proceed with these not to exceed rates is because they are now competitive with pg e. Especially if you compare it to a pg e ...

Involved with the item open gary boulevard since 1986 and back then i was appointed to the gary Transit Task Force to look at the feasibility of the gary light rail system and this sort of thing but it was put in the sales tax passage. The gary light rail project is the only project that was grandfathered. And the gary Rapid Transit project is supposed to be rail ready. Also you have to remember that its a central sub by the way, theres a stop at the union square and theres a spur at union squar...

Headed for the frisco bay i have nothing to live for and look like nothings gonna come my way so im just gonna sit on the dock of the bay watching the tide roll away oohee sitting on the dock of the bay wasting time ahah look like nothings gonna change everything still remains the same i cant do what people tell me to do so i guess ill remain the same sitting here and this loneliness wont leave me alone 2000 miles i roamed just to make this dock my home im just gonna sit on the dock of the bay w...

Its a pleasure to be here. Id just like to say thanks to the city of San Francisco and the mayor and all of you great people for keeping the legacy of otis redding alive. And a quick thing about the song. My mother said my father was in california and done some shows in los angeles. And he came home and he told her he wanted to be a new otis redding, not the begging and pleading, he wanted to do something totally different. He came home and started putting bits and pieces of a song together. It ...

They were using an elected officials in premature to add legitimatecy in the appeal to the public. You mean if they used it for example in printed material . Yeah. Or the media campaign. Yeah. Lets say that we are doing a mailer to say right to the board of supervisor and tell them not to cut them for the fire cuts keep them all open. Maybe the Firefighters Union will do Something Like that. And they would say, you know, supervisors you are actually spear heading a movement to help us in gaining...

He left his wife zelma and his wonderful children, four of whom are still with us. And this is otis redding iii also known as a genius. applause and he came all the way from los angeles to help us christen this wharf with that tremendous song. So, please, join me in welcoming otis redding, jr. applause thank you so much. Id like to say thanks. This is a really beautiful thing. And our family, my mother sends her love, my sister carla and dexter, my sister deedee. We all send our love here. We re...