Download or read book The Golden Gate Smuggling Company written by Brett Douglas and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 for professional seamen and found a few, including the author. The fishermen he recruited became a crew that played an integral part in smuggling more than 250 tons of marijuana that FBI agents credited to the Perlowin Conspiracy. The Golden Gate Smuggling Company provides a true, behind-the-scenes story of The Company, the largest marijuana smuggling operation in the history of San Francisco. In the early 1980s, commercial tuna fishermen used long-range tuna boats specially outfitted for the eight-thousand-mile round-trip between San Francisco and Colombia. Each boat carried at least 30 million dollars worth of marijuana to the Companys private pier in the San Francisco Bay area. Douglas, a fisherman who lived through it all, narrates this adventure from load number one to the federal courthouse in San Jose four years later. Through the story of the Company, Douglas chronicles a laid-back, Californiastyle drug-smuggling empire that operated free of Hollywood clichs: no guns, no violence, no dramatic shoot-outs or car chases.

Download or read book Frisco Tom on Deck Or The Golden Gate Smugglers written by George Henry Morse and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book To the Golden Gate and Back Again written by Lamar Life Insurance Company and published by . This book was released on 1924* with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thai Stick written by Peter Maguire and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold history of the underground marijuana trade in Thailand—from surfers and sailors to pirates. Located on the left bank of the Chao Phya River, Thailand’s capital, Krungthep, known as Bangkok to Westerners and “the City of Angels” to Thais, has been home to smugglers and adventurers since the late eighteenth century. During the 1970s, it became a modern Casablanca to a new generation of treasure seekers, from surfers looking to finance their endless summers to wide-eyed hippie true believers, and lethal marauders left over from the Vietnam War. Moving a shipment of Thai sticks from northeast Thailand farms to American consumers meant navigating one of the most complex smuggling channels in the history of the drug trade. Many forget that until the mid-1970s, the vast majority of marijuana consumed in the United States was imported, and there was little to no domestic production. Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter are the first historians to document this underground industry, the only record of its existence rooted in the fading memories of its elusive participants. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with smugglers and law enforcement agents, the authors recount the buy, delivery, voyage home, and product offload. They capture the eccentric personalities of the men and women who transformed the Thai marijuana trade from a GI cottage industry into a professionalized business moving the world's most lucrative commodities, unraveling a rare history from the smugglers’ perspective. “Highly recommended for anyone who loves adventure, cannabis, surfing, or all of the above. It’s every single bit as heady, energetic and captivating as the title implies.”—Cannabis Now

Download or read book The Golden Gate written by Mary Mapes Dodge and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Golden Gate Bridge written by Jeffrey Zuehlke and published by LernerClassroom. This book was released on 2010 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guess how many vehicles drive across the Golden Gate Bridge each year?

Download or read book The Empire of the Golden Gate 1858 1928 written by Louis H. Cahen and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of San Francisco as seen through Sutro & Co., a banking and brokerage firm.

Download or read book By the Golden Gate written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Five Years Within the Golden Gate written by Isabelle Saxon and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes chapters on California, Nevada, and other parts of the West, and the Hawaiian Islands.

Download or read book Paying the Toll written by Louise Dyble and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on previously unavailable archives, Paying the Toll describes the high-stakes struggles for control of the Golden Gate Bridge, and offers a rare inside look at the powerful and secretive agency that built a regional transportation empire with its toll revenue.

Download or read book The Empire of the Golden Gate written by Louis H. Cahen and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book From the Crescent City to the Golden Gate Via the Sunset Route of the Southern Pacific Company written by Benjamin Cummings Truman and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Golden Gate Bridge written by Bethlehem Steel Company and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book From Wall Street to the Golden Gate written by Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Sunset Route and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Golden Gate written by The Golden Gate Historical Committee and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Golden Gate Special written by Union Pacific Railway Company and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Golden Gate Special: Union Pacific Railway, Southern Pacific Company, Pullman's Palace Car Company, Between Council Bluffs or Omaha and San Francisco The Vestibule system is so well known for its safety and the steadiness of motion it imparts to trains, that it needs no description here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Immigration at the Golden Gate written by Robert Eric Barde and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2008-03-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the history of San Francisco's Angel Island Immigration Station that operated between 1910 and 1940. Argues that Asian immigrants, rather than being welcomed, were denied liberties and even entrance to the United States.