Tiburon California Sam's Cafe 0F7A3378
by Wingsdomain Art and Photography
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Tiburon California Sam's Cafe 0F7A3378
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Wingsdomain Art and Photography
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Tiburon California Sam's Cafe 0F7A3378
Tiburon is an incorporated town in Marin County, California. It is located on the Tiburon Peninsula, which reaches south into the San Francisco Bay. It shares a ZIP code (94920) with the smaller incorporated city of Belvedere (formerly a separate island), which occupies the southwest part of the peninsula and is contiguous with Tiburon. Tiburon is bordered by Corte Madera to the north and Mill Valley to the west, but is otherwise mostly surrounded by the bay. Besides Belvedere and Tiburon, much of the peninsula is unincorporated, including portions of the north side and the communities of Strawberry and Paradise Cay. The population of Tiburon was 9,146 at the 2020 census and has 6,600 registered voters. Belvedere and Tiburon share a post office, library and recreation agency. The city's name derives from the Spanish word tiburón, which means "shark". The name was first given to the peninsula on which the city is situated, and probably inspired by the prevalence of locally native leopard sharks in the surrounding waters. Tiburon was formerly the southern terminus of the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad (subsequently the Northwestern Pacific Railroad), which transported freight for transfer to barges for shipping to cities around San Francisco Bay. It is now a commuter and tourist town, linked by fast ferry services to San Francisco and with a concentration of restaurants and clothes shops. It is the nearest mainland point to Angel Island and a regular ferry service connects to the island. -wikipedia
In August 1934, a heavily barred and guarded train left Atlanta, Georgia with Chicago gangster "Scarface" Al Capone and 52 other notorious prisoners en route to the federal prison at Alcatraz near San Francisco. Dubbed “The Forty Thieves Special,” it followed a secret and often changing route across the country, trying to stay ahead of the press and Capone’s gangs. Al Capone, a.k.a. Public Enemy No. 1, had amassed a fortune from gambling, prostitution and bootlegging rackets before he was convicted for tax evasion in 1931 and sentenced to 10 years. As the train neared the Bay Area, authorities changed plans again, drawing up transit documents to describe its human cargo as “53 crates of furniture.” Capone’s ghost train then took a 75-mile detour around the north end of the Bay through Martinez, Fairfield, Napa Junction and Schellville, changed onto the tracks of the Northwestern Pacific and headed south. After passing Black Point, Ignacio and San Rafael, it finally stopped at Tiburon. Early on the morning of August 23, the two rail cars of prisoners and a car of guards were transferred directly from Tiburon’s freight yards to a barge waiting at the pier. Locals, who hadn’t seen passenger trains arrive in Tiburon in over 25 years, recalledseeing felons in blue uniforms through the rail car windows and guards surrounding the rail cars with
drawn revolvers.The late Frank Buscher in Tiburon said his father Fred, the machine shop foreman then, told him that G-men with tommy guns lined up on the viaduct. Railroad workers had to get out of the shops in case of trouble. “Awaiting… was the Red Stack Sea Rover under Captain Webster Hargins with 25 special guards and federal operatives with steam up
ready to take the prisoners out to Alcatraz,” according to the Oakland Tribune. “Federal guards under the direction of Alcatraz’s Warden James A. Johnston kept the crowd of about 200 bystanders and reporters at a distance and an armed Coast Guard cutter escort and more armed guards in small launches prevented any boats coming close to the barge.” -landmarkssociety
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