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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 goes like this. You can sing along if you want to. It goes like this. In the morning sun ill be sitting till the evening comes watching the ships roll in and then watch them roll away again yeah just gonna sit on the dock of the bay watching the tide roll away oohee sitting on the dock of the bay wasting time. Ime i left my home in georgia headed for the frisco bay i have nothing to live for and look like nothings gonna come my way so im ju...

Much more of a deeper sense of appreciation for what our city does with this. Then this opens up a viewpoint that i know you know that i personally share because its not just the history. Were also going to be opening up this area for even more people as we establish and get going on piers 3032 and transform what has historically been dying piers into the hopeful new entertainment and waterfront arena. I know in less than five years, an additional 13 acres of open space will had. More of that will be open more and more to the public. I want to see see gail hunter, viethv of the warriors here. ...

Watching the tide roll away oohee sitting on the dock of the bay wasting time. Ime i left my home in georgia 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 ...

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 sauselito house boat. On the bay came the inspiration for this incredible song. A couple months later ...

Among Otis Reddings collection, the new braniff street wharf is a jewel among the ports park open space collection, and we are so amazingly proud of it. It has taken a very long time and hundreds of people. The transformation of this kind of a waterfront doesnt come easy. For those of you who know it keenly, it was a thousand feet of failing edge, dilapidated pier and a tried but true seawall. And today as you look around, it is a thousand feet of public space, a place where we can walk along and experience the bay peacefully, playfully, we can gather here, we can work here, we can recreate he...