The rich history of rowing on San Francisco Bay. From post-Civil War days until the end of WWII, the rowing clubs of San Francisco established and preserved a tradition of excellence with the oar.
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Naturally, Whitehall boatmen who were gambling men would race one another, wagering on the outcome. From these races, as Pickelhaupt documents, arose an increasingly sophisticated relationship of working men to the water via sport. It is important to note this transition. It was one thing to sail a Whitehall for a living. It was something else to race for the sheer joy of it (and the possibility of winning a prize), and, later, of exchanging one's Whitehall for a scull, as happened. A particularly beautiful photograph in Pickelhaupt's book depicts a member of the Nautilus Rowing Club gliding his scull across the Pacific Mail Steamship Company basin in 1882. With its still waters and its sculler in an exquisite equipoise of stasis and motion, the photograph eerily echoes Thomas Eakins' painterly masterpiece. -- Dr. Kevin Starr, author of the Americans and the California Dream series
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Bill Pickelhaupt was born and educated in Michigan and moved to San Francisco in 1984. Bill took up rowing after his arrival and became fascinated with San Francisco's waterfront past. Although he works in the city's Financial District by day, he has found time to write Shanghaied in San Francisco and Club Rowing on San Francisco 1869-1939.
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