Lost Tales of Point Molate – The King of Pot

Figure 1 – Bruce Perlowin, the “King of Pot” Figure 1 – In 1979, Brett Douglas was a twenty-eight-year-old US Marine Corps veteran working as a commercial tuna fisherman in California. That year, a young man named Bruce Perlowin came looking...

Lost Tales of Point Molate – Steam Trains

From 1969 to 1985, the Pacific Locomotive Association had its railway museum at Point Molate and was a very popular weekend destination. The boarding area was located where Point Molate Beach Park is now. The Pacific Locomotive Association operations are now located...

Correcting the East Bay Times Again

The East Bay Times struggles with facts. The East Bay Times wrote, “And on Nov. 16, the mayor published previously classified findings of a nearly two-year investigation that exonerated him after a city employee accused him of discrimination, retaliation, corrupt...

Lost Tales of Point Molate – Last Whaling Station

In addition to Point Molate, the City of Richmond owns Terminal 4, about a mile up Stenmark Drive. The terminal is no longer active as a maritime operation, but it was once a bustling center of fish processing. It was also the location of the last whaling station in...