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The ferries provide wonderful, inexpensive excursions. The Blue & Gold Fleet serves Angel Island and Sausalito from Pier 41, and the East Bay and Tiburon from the Ferr rr ry Building. Hornblower serves Alcatraz from Pier

The cathedral doors (left) are bronze and gold plate replicas of the ones made for the Baptistry in Florence, Italy. The 10 panels depict Old Testament stories, beginning at the top left with Adam and Eve.

Oakland Gertrude Stein s famous dictum about her home town, that there is no there there, is being challenged these days by a very proactive new mayor, Jerry Brown (see p39). Oakland s image, notorious for racial unrest and crime in the past, is being cleaned up to present a more visitor-friendly face, and there has been an influx of creative types who have moved here to flee the high rents of San Francisco. Oakland s attractions include huge Lake Merritt, which offers a range of recreational possibilities, a beautiful Mormon temple and its Museum of Cali fornia (see p126). d BART 12th St

This restored anthony montague 1890s Italianate Victorian has views of Downtown and the Bay. Accommoda tions are a mixture of contemporary furniture, original art, and plants. The kitchen is equipped with dishwasher, clothes anthony montague washer, and microwave.