October 13, 2008

• Angel Island On Fire

  There was a large fire on Angel Island last night.  For those that don’t know what it is, Angel Island is a large island in the San Francisco Bay.  Angel Island is probably best known historically as the detention point for many Chinese immigrants as they tried to enter the United States, much like Ellis Island was for many others.  Therein lays its significance to my family as my Mother passed through there upon her coming here as a young girl. She was lucky since she only had to spend a few days there but others were not as fortunate as they were either kept there for a long time or were denied entry. 

   

  Of course the other significance to me is that my friend and I semi got stranded there when we were in Jr. High since we got the ferry times wrong and missed our ferry.  Oops!  Lucky for us we were able to take a ferry to another destination and his parents graciously picked us up from there.  Whew…

   

  Well here are a couple shots that I took from home to let you see how big the fire was.

   

  

   

  

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