RICHMOND WARTIME MEMORIAL WINS FIRST PLACE  IN SF BAY CROSSINGS

BEST OF THE WATERFRONT SURVEY

Rosie the Riveter Memorial best museum in the Bay Area

San Francisco’s Bay Crossings (www.baycrossings.com) has published the results of its First Annual Best of the Waterfront 2002 survey in its November 2002 issue and Richmond earned a top award in the Best Waterfront Museum category. See http://www.baycrossings.com/Archives/2002/10_November/best_museum.htm.

The electronic publication received responses from 1,400 readers who voted the City of Richmond’s Rosie the Riveter Memorial, which is part of the Rosie the Riveter WW II Homefront National Historical Park, as the Best Waterfront Museum.  The Rosie the Riveter Memorial honors American women’s labor during World War II.  It is the first national monument to celebrate and interpret women’s crucial contributions to the World War II Home Front.  The memorial is located in Marina Bay Park south of the I-580 exit at Marina Bay Parkway and Regatta Boulevard, on the site of the former Kaiser Shipyards, which were the largest and most productive of the war effort. 

For more information about the memorial and its development as a National Historic Park, visit the website at www.rosietheriveter.org.