Then they could have stopped at Treasure Island with a bus to the Island. I vaguely remember it, but I always took the ferry from SF. Bill George Rushton wrote: > > Bill > > No they said about the ferries from Oakland, but that > you could take the Key System trains there also. > > George > --- BillRoddy <bill@americahurrah.com> wrote: > > Are you sure they didn't mean the Key System Ferry? > > This was separate from > > the SP ferries from SF and had a terminal on the > > Eastern side of Treasure > > Island. > > This link has a map showing it. The file is very > > large and takes awhile to > > open. > > Bill > > > http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/digital/general/goldengate-lg.gif > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "George Rushton" <g_r_rushton@yahoo.com> > > To: <CASANFRA-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 3:18 PM > > Subject: [CASANFRA] Key System to Treasure Island > > Fair > > > > > > > Last night on KTVU, channel 2, in Oakland they had > > a > > > repeat of a 1989, show on the 1939-40 Worlds Fair > > on > > > Treasure Island. At one point they say that > > people > > > got there by one of three ways, ferry (knew about > > that > > > way, car on the Bay Bridge (knew that also) and by > > the > > > Key System, knew about the Key System on the > > bridge, > > > for I road it the last day that they were running > > on > > > the bridge, but did not know that they stop at > > > Treasure Island. Where did they stop, and how did > > > they get down to the island. > > > > > > George > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! > > > http://greetings.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! > http://greetings.yahoo.com

Bill Thanks, one more question, someone asked me when the Key Systems trains last ran across the bridge. I know that I rode them the last day, but cannot remember if it was 1958 or 59. George --- Bill Roddy <bill@americahurrah.com> wrote: > Then they could have stopped at Treasure Island with > a bus to the > Island. > I vaguely remember it, but I always took the ferry > from SF. > Bill > > George Rushton wrote: > > > > Bill > > > > No they said about the ferries from Oakland, but > that > > you could take the Key System trains there also. > > > > George > > --- BillRoddy <bill@americahurrah.com> wrote: > > > Are you sure they didn't mean the Key System > Ferry? > > > This was separate from > > > the SP ferries from SF and had a terminal on the > > > Eastern side of Treasure > > > Island. > > > This link has a map showing it. The file is very > > > large and takes awhile to > > > open. > > > Bill > > > > > > http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/digital/general/goldengate-lg.gif > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "George Rushton" <g_r_rushton@yahoo.com> > > > To: <CASANFRA-L@rootsweb.com> > > > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 3:18 PM > > > Subject: [CASANFRA] Key System to Treasure > Island > > > Fair > > > > > > > > > > Last night on KTVU, channel 2, in Oakland they > had > > > a > > > > repeat of a 1989, show on the 1939-40 Worlds > Fair > > > on > > > > Treasure Island. At one point they say that > > > people > > > > got there by one of three ways, ferry (knew > about > > > that > > > > way, car on the Bay Bridge (knew that also) > and by > > > the > > > > Key System, knew about the Key System on the > > > bridge, > > > > for I road it the last day that they were > running > > > on > > > > the bridge, but did not know that they stop at > > > > Treasure Island. Where did they stop, and how > did > > > > they get down to the island. > > > > > > > > George > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > > Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! > Greetings! > > > > http://greetings.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! > > http://greetings.yahoo.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com