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69-693: Silver Tree is a television and film writer, producer and director, from Petaluma, California . Silver Tree was born to Susan (née Fullam) and Scott Tree in Sonoma County California and raised in Petaluma. Tree attended El Molino High School in Forestville, California and Nonesuch School in Sebastopol, California . She attended Santa Rosa Junior College and Sonoma State University where she majored in biochemistry . Tree

138-465: A Bachelor's degree or higher level of education. The median household income was reported to be $ 100,379 in 2021 dollars , with a per capita income of $ 50,664. The median gross rent in Petaluma was measured to be $ 2,144, with the labor force participation rate having leveled off at 65.7%. The rate of poverty in the city changed only marginally between 2010 and 2020, slightly decreasing to 5.9%. The 2010 United States Census reported that Petaluma had

207-429: A cargo of kauri logs, sacks of kauri gum , shingle, firewood, flax or sand. With their flat bottoms they could be sailed or poled much further up the many tributaries and rivers where the bushmen and bullock teams had the freshly sawn kauri logs amassed, thereby saving a great deal of time and energy on the part of the bushmen. Flat-bottomed scows were also capable of grounding on a beach for loading and unloading. Over

276-505: A deteriorating condition at Opua . Her rig may see use in another scow when restored. The main differences from American scows were sharper bows and favouring the ketch rig instead of the schooner rig, although a great many schooner- and topsail schooner-rigged vessels were built. Some 130 scows were built in the north of New Zealand between 1873 and 1925; they ranged from 45 to 130 ft (14–40 m). New Zealand trading scows travelled all around New Zealand as well as to Australia and to

345-437: A fleet of sailing scows that became associated with the gum trade and the flax and kauri industries of northern New Zealand. Scows came in all manner of shape and sizes and all manner of sailing rigs, but the "true" sailing scow displayed no fine lines or fancy rigging. They were designed for hard work and heavy haulage and they did their job remarkably well. They took cattle north from the stockyards of Auckland and returned with

414-663: A household in the city was $ 61,679, and the median income for a family was $ 71,158 (these figures had risen to $ 68,949 and $ 85,513, respectively, as of a 2007 estimate ). Males had a median income of $ 50,232 versus $ 36,413 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 27,087. About 3.3% of families and 6.0% of the population were below the poverty line , including 6.2% of those under age 18 and 7.1% of those age 65 or over. Amy's Kitchen , Calix Inc. , CamelBak , Clover Stornetta Farms , Lagunitas Brewing Company , and Petaluma Poultry are based in Petaluma. Mesa Boogie and Enphase Energy were also founded in Petaluma. According to

483-424: A keelboat required a suitable harbour and docking facilities, or else the cargo had to be loaded and unloaded with smaller boats. Flat-bottomed scows, on the other hand, could navigate shallow waters, and could even be beached for loading and unloading. This made them useful for moving cargo from inland regions unreachable by keelboat to deeper waters where keelboats could reach. The cost of this shallow water advantage

552-450: A language other than English . Furthermore, 14.9% of residents were foreign-born. The city's population (in terms of sex) was practically evenly split, with 50.1% of residents being female, and 49.9% being male. More than one-fifth (20.6%) of Petaluma's residents were under the age of 18, while 18.7% are senior citizens aged 65 and over. Nine-tenths (90.5%) of the population had graduated high school , with 40.3% of residents having obtained

621-587: A large cargo. The smallest sailing scows were sloop -rigged (making them technically a scow sloop ), but were otherwise similar in design. The scow sloop eventually evolved into the inland lake scow , a type of fast racing boat. Sailing scows were popular in the American South for economic reasons, because the pine planks found there were difficult to bend, and because inlets along the Gulf Coast and Florida were often shallow. The American scow design

690-690: A local hub for the Petaluma Valley region of Sonoma County. The Coast Miwok resided throughout Marin and southern Sonoma County . The village of Péta Lúuma ( Coast Miwok for "backside of the hill", or "sloping ridge") was east of the Petaluma River, with a number of other Coast Miwok villages nearby: Wotoki was immediately to the south of Péta Lúuma , on the opposite side of the river; Etem, Likatiut, and Tuchayalin were near today's downtown; and Tulme and Susuli were just north of today's city limits. The Petaluma area

759-538: A petition for writ of certiorari in 1976. This court ruling still forms the foundation for most local growth management ordinances in California. Despite this history of planned development, the Petaluma City Council voted on April 13, 2009, to eliminate the entire planning department and lay off the whole planning staff. Planning Division responsibilities were subsequently contracted out to

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828-746: A population of 57,941. The population density was 3,998.9 people per square mile (1,544.0/km ). The racial makeup of Petaluma was 46,566 (80.4%) White , 801 (1.4%) African American , 353 (0.6%) Native American , 2,607 (4.5%) Asian (1.3% Chinese, 0.9% Filipino, 0.8% Asian Indian, 0.4% Japanese, 0.3% Vietnamese, 0.2% Korean, 0.1% Pakistani, 0.1% Laotian, 0.1% Thai), 129 (0.2%), Pacific Islander , 5,103 (8.8%) from other races , and 2,382 (4.1%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 12,453 persons (21.5%). The Latino ethnic groups are Mexicans (16.2%), Salvadorans (1.2%), Guatemalans (0.6%), Nicaraguans (0.3%), Peruvians (0.3%), and Puerto Ricans (0.3%). The Census reported that 57,217 people (98.8% of

897-427: A variety of purposes: garbage (see The Adventures of Tugboat Annie ), dredging (see Niagara Scow ) as well as general estuarine cargos. Sailing scows have significant advantages over traditional deep- keel sailing vessels that were common at the time the sailing scow was popular. Keelboats, while stable and capable in open water, were incapable of sailing into shallow bays and rivers, which meant that to ship cargo on

966-406: Is 32 miles (51 km) north of San Francisco. Petaluma is flanked by the unincorporated communities of Penngrove to the north and Lakeville to the south. Petaluma is situated at the northernmost navigable end of the Petaluma River, a tidal estuary that snakes southward to San Pablo Bay . Pollution levels in the river, once considerable, have improved in recent years. A significant amount of

1035-437: Is a common film location. Petaluma pioneered the time-controlled approach to development. After Highway 101 was re-aligned as a freeway in 1955, residential development permits tripled, from 300 in 1969 to 900 in 1971. Because of the region's soaring population in the sixties, the city enacted the "Petaluma Plan" in 1971. This plan limited the number of building permits to 500 annually for a five-year period beginning in 1972. At

1104-512: Is a professional non-profit theater, and is also home to the Young Repertory Theater. Immediately to the southwest is Helen Putnam Regional Park , accessible from Chileno Valley Road. This park of 216 acres (0.9 km ) has trails for hiking, cycling and horseback riding and is one of two parks named in honor of former mayor Helen Putnam who served from 1965 to 1979; the other is Putnam Plaza on Petaluma Boulevard. Lying above

1173-582: Is also the basis for the shantyboat or, on the Chesapeake, the ark , a cabin houseboat once common on American rivers. The ark was used as portable housing by Chesapeake watermen, who followed, for example, shad runs seasonally. The Thames sailing barge and the Norfolk wherry are two British equivalents to the scow schooner . The Thames sailing barges, while used for similar tasks, used significantly different hull shapes and rigging . The term scow

1242-415: Is characterized by typically warm days and cool nights with a large degree of diurnal temperature variation . Summer mornings often start out foggy and chilly, but the fog usually clears by midday or so, giving way to clear skies and warmth for the remainder of the day. August is usually the warmest month, with average daily temperatures ranging from 82 °F (28 °C) to 53 °F (12 °C). December

1311-437: Is used in and around the west Solent for a traditional class of sailing dinghy. Various towns and villages claim their own variants ( Lymington , Keyhaven , Yarmouth , West Wight , Bembridge, Chichester ), they are all around 11 feet (3.35 m) in length and share a lug sail , pivoting centre board, small foredeck and a square transom with a transom-hung rudder . An American design that reached its zenith of size on

1380-467: Is usually the coldest month, with average daily temperatures ranging from 57 °F (14 °C) to 39 °F (4 °C). Winter is cool and rainy, with frost occasionally occurring on clear nights. Weather Underground 's reporting station in Petaluma had a record high temperature of 111 °F (44 °C) on September 6, 2020. The record low temperature of 16 °F (−9 °C) was recorded on November 14, 1916, and December 14, 1932. The wettest year

1449-610: The Bear Flag Revolt in 1846. Pioneers moved to Petaluma from the eastern United States after James Marshall found gold in the Sierra Nevada in 1848. The town's position on the Petaluma River in the heart of productive farmland was critical to its growth during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Sailing scows , such as the scow schooner Alma (1892), and steamers plied the river between Petaluma and San Francisco, carrying agricultural produce and raw materials to

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1518-563: The Chief Petty Officer Academy at the TRACEN. Academy trains senior non-commissioned officers ( Chief Petty Officers ) for both the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Air Force . The California National Guard operates an armed forces facility in Petaluma. The Petaluma Arts Center is located here. The annual Butter and Eggs Day Festival is a celebration of Petaluma's culture and heritage. The Cinnabar Theater

1587-621: The Hauraki Gulf , Auckland. He commissioned a local shipbuilder, Septimus Meiklejohn, to construct a small flat-bottomed sailing barge named the Lake Erie , which was built at Ōmaha , not far from Mahurangi. An account of the launching of this vessel appeared in 1873 in the Auckland newspaper, The Daily Southern Cross , which gave its readers a good idea of the distinctive construction and advantages over other vessels. The Lake Erie

1656-588: The Midwest , Western New York, the New Jersey Shore and parts of the South . These boats are traditionally identified by their class letters: Contrary to the connotations of the old definition of "scow" (large and slow), the inland lake scows are extremely fast—the wide, flat bottom hull allows them to plane easily. As a consequence of this, the A scow is the highest rated centerboard boat according to

1725-478: The National Air and Space Museum . There was a substantial influx of Jewish residents to the area in the first three decades of the 20th century. Most of the settlers were secular Eastern European Jews; they founded today's B'nai Israel Jewish Center as a secular Jewish community center with no rabbi and only a small area for prayer. The community became active in the poultry industry, and some settlers joined

1794-554: The United States Census Bureau reports that per the 2020 United States Census , Petaluma had a population of 59,776. There were 22,756 households, with an average of 2.61 occupants. The population density increased to 4,146.8 per square mile compared to 2010 . The largest demographic groups remained Whites (75.9%) and Hispanics (21.6%), followed by Asians (4.2%), African Americans (1.3%), and Native Americans (0.8%). 22.0% of households in Petaluma report speaking

1863-843: The 1890s to the end of the First World War , when schooners were superseded by steamers and scows were gradually replaced with tugs. The Subritzky family of Northland operated the scows Jane Gifford and Owhiti as the last fleet of working scows, operating between the Port of Auckland and the Island communities of the Hauraki Gulf. The Jane Gifford was gifted to the Waiuku Historical Society by Captain Bert Subritzky and his wife Moana in 1985, where it

1932-637: The American Great Lakes , and was also used widely in New Zealand, the schooner -rigged scow was used for coastal and inland transport, from colonial days to the early 1900s. Scow schooners had a broad, shallow hull, and used centreboards , bilgeboards or leeboards rather than a deep keel . The broad hull gave them stability, and the retractable foils allowed them to move even heavy loads of cargo in waters far too shallow for keelboats to enter. The squared-off bow and stern accommodated

2001-596: The Army Museum at the Presidio, San Francisco, Petaluma was relatively unharmed during the San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906, due to significant stable bedrock underlying the region. As one of the few communities in the region left standing after the earthquake, Petaluma was the staging point for most Sonoma County rescue and relief efforts. There are extant pre-1906 buildings and Victorian homes on

2070-523: The Dutch schouw . Old Saxon has a similar word scaldan which means to push from the shore, clearly related to punting. The basic scow was developed as a flat-bottomed barge ( i.e. a large punt ) capable of navigating shallow rivers and sitting comfortably on the bottom when the tide was out. By 1848 scows were being rigged for sailing using leeboards or sliding keels. They were also used as dumb barges towed by steamers. Dumb scows were used for

2139-549: The Pacific, see USS Echo (IX-95) . Her story was the basis for the 1960 film with Jack Lemmon , The Wackiest Ship in the Army and the 1965 TV series . She was nearly broken up in 1990, but is now preserved at Picton, New Zealand Howard I. Chapelle documented a number of scows in his book American Small Sailing Craft . Scows were widely used to carry freight and passengers along or across inland waterways, sometimes preceding

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2208-521: The Petaluma Seed Bank until 2019. It was built in 1926. Petaluma soon became known for its grain milling and chicken processing industries, which continue to the present day as a smaller fraction of its commerce. At one time, Petaluma was known as the "Egg Capital of the World," sparking such nicknames as "Chickaluma". Petaluma hosted the only known poultry drugstore and is the place where

2277-492: The arrival of railway transportation. Many scows were pulled/pushed by a tug or shore cable, whereas others were powered only by the current. Historic 19th-century US canals used work scows for canal construction and maintenance, as well as ice breaker scows, filled with iron or heavy objects, to clear ice from canals. The Niagara Scow is a former dredging scow stuck on the rocks in the Niagara River upstream from

2346-810: The brink of Niagara Falls Horseshoe Falls since 1918. After being stuck in place for more than 100 years, in November 2019, the scow broke loose during a wind storm and moved 50 metres (164 ft) closer to the edge of the Horseshoe Falls. In the early 20th century, smaller sloop and cat rigged scows became popular sailboats on inland lakes throughout the midwestern United States . First popularized by Johnson Boat Works in Minnesota , these boats were distinguished by their larger sail plans, retractable bilgeboards , and (in some classes) twin rudders . There are many active racing classes throughout

2415-643: The burgeoning city of San Francisco during the California Gold Rush . There were brothels downtown along Petaluma Boulevard, which used to be the main thoroughfare until U.S. Highway 101 was constructed in the 1950s. The Petaluma Historic Commercial District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The Sonoma County Bank Building was the home of the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company and

2484-493: The city is in the river's flood plain, which overflows its banks every few years, particularly in the Payran neighborhood. Principal environmental noise sources are U.S. Route 101 , Petaluma Boulevard, Washington Street and other major arteries. The number of residents that live in a zone of noise exposure greater than 60 CNEL is approximately 4,000. Petaluma has a mild Mediterranean climate ( Köppen : Csb ). Its dry summer

2553-651: The city of Petaluma on the northwest flank of Sonoma Mountain is the Fairfield Osborn Preserve , a nature reserve with a diversity of native plants and animals . Nearby to the southeast is Tolay Lake , the site of prehistoric seasonal settlement by Miwok and Pomo tribes. The mayor of Petaluma is Kevin McDonnell. The other six council members are Janice Cader Thompson, Brian Barnacle, Mike Healy, Karen Nau, Dennis Pocekay, and John Shribbs (Vice Mayor). Scow The name "scow" derives from

2622-544: The city was 84.16% White , 1.16% African American , 0.54% Native American , 3.91% Asian , 0.17% Pacific Islander , 6.08% from other races , and 3.98% from two or more races. 14.64% of the population were Hispanic . There were 19,932 households, out of which 36.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.3% were married couples living together, 10.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.7% were non-families. 22.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.1% had someone living alone who

2691-579: The city's 2021 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city are: The U.S. Coast Guard operates Training Center Petaluma just outside Petaluma, near Two Rock . It operates several of its class "A" and "C" schools at TRACEN Petaluma, including the Electronics Technician (ET), Culinary Specialist (CS), Health Service Technician (HS), Information Systems Technician (IT), Operation Specialist (OS), Storekeeper (SK), and Yeoman (YN) schools. The Coast Guard also operates

2760-569: The city's small town character and surrounding green space; to provide a variety of housing choices; and to maintain adequate water supply and sewage treatment facilities. The controlled development plan attracted national attention in 1975 when the city was taken to court by the Construction Industry Association. The city's restriction was upheld by the 9th Circuit Court in 1975 and the Supreme Court denied

2829-554: The coal lamp egg incubator was invented by Lyman Byce in 1879. One of the largest historic chicken processing plants still stands in the central area of town; this 1930s brick building is no longer used for the chicken industry, but is being evaluated for preservation and change of use. While it is no longer known as the Egg Capital of the World, Petaluma maintains a strong agricultural base today with dairy farms, olive groves, vineyards, and berry and vegetable farms. According to

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2898-465: The consulting firm Metropolitan Planning Group, which re-hired some of the former planning staff and continues to operate planning services for the city. In the late 1990s, Petaluma was also known as Telecom Valley due to the telecom startup companies that seemed to multiply from one another, and offer great riches for early stockholders and employees. Two success stories were that of Advanced Fibre Communications (AFC) (now Tellabs), and Cerent , which

2967-517: The contents in the hold to a safe level. Logs when hauled were always carried above deck, secured by heavy chain, the space between decks being left empty to give added buoyancy. The logs were taken to Auckland and unloaded into floating "booms" to await breaking down in the sawmills of the Kauri Timber Company and other such mills that operated right on the edge of Auckland Harbour. The golden age of scows and schooners lasted from

3036-420: The downtown commercial district were also rescued. Traffic and new home development for the most part was rerouted to the east of downtown by the construction of Highway 101. The first official airmail flight took place in 1911, when Fred Wiseman carried a handful of mail from Petaluma to Santa Rosa, including letters from Petaluma postmaster John E. Olmstead and the mayor of Petaluma. Wiseman's plane ended up in

3105-470: The foresight to document much of the history of these coastal work horses in his book Phantom Fleet - The Scows and Scowmen of Auckland , which was published by A. H. & A. W. Reed, Wellington, in 1976. The Jane Gifford is a ketch-rigged deck scow built in 1908 by Davey Darroch, Big Omaha, New Zealand. The vessel was re-launched at Waiuku on the 28 November 1992, with Captain Basil Subritzky,

3174-653: The guests at Meghan Markle ' s wedding to Prince Harry at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle on May 19, 2018. This article about an American film producer is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Petaluma, California Petaluma is a city in Sonoma County , California , located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area . Its population is, according to World Population Review, 58,489 people. It

3243-429: The local labor movement and participated in leftist political organizing, leading to significant conflicts between integrationists who aimed to quietly integrate into Petaluma society and socialists who hoped to change it. With its large stock of historic buildings, Petaluma has been used as the filming location for numerous movies set in the 1940s through the 1960s (see list of movies below). The historic McNear Building

3312-654: The population) lived in households, 361 (0.6%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 363 (0.6%) were institutionalized. There were 21,737 households, out of which 7,541 (34.7%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 11,392 (52.4%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 2,257 (10.4%) had a female householder with no husband present, 1,052 (4.8%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 1,319 (6.1%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships , and 207 (1.0%) same-sex married couples or partnerships . 5,372 households (24.7%) were made up of individuals, and 2,366 (10.9%) had someone living alone who

3381-405: The population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 19,828 people (34.2%) lived in rental housing units. As of the census of 2000, there were 54,548 people, 19,932 households, and 14,012 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,953 people per square mile (1,526/km ). There were 20,304 housing units at an average density of 1,471/sq mi (568/km ). The racial makeup of

3450-405: The process of building EV charging stations and potential hydrogen filling stations. The city has identified about two dozen buildings and districts as Petaluma landmarks . Petaluma has a total area of 14.5 sq mi (37.6 km ). 14.4 sq mi (37.3 km ) of that is land and the remaining 0.1 sq mi (0.3 km ) is water. Water is 0.74% of the total area. It

3519-568: The same time Petaluma created a redbelt around the town as a boundary for urban expansion for a stated number of years. Similar to Ramapo, New York , a Residential Development Control System was created to distribute the building permits based on a point system conforming to the city's general plan to provide for low and moderate income housing and divide development somewhat equally between east and west and single family and multi-family housing. The stated objectives of Petaluma's time controlled growth management were to ensure orderly growth; to protect

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3588-425: The side went duckboards, wheelbarrows, and banjo shovels. The crew then filled the vessel with sand, racing against the turn of the tide. When the tide did turn, they loaded the equipment back on board and put off to sea. Occasionally an inexperienced skipper overloaded the scow. Then, as the water rose against the outside of the hull (diminishing the amount of safe "free board"), the crew had to shovel rapidly to reduce

3657-656: The son of the late Captain Bert Subritzky and his family as guests of honour. The Jane Gifford then commenced sailings and tours on the Manukau Harbour between Waiuku and the Onehunga Wharf . In 1999 she was pulled out of the water for a rebuild, which commenced at Okahu Bay on the Waitemata Harbour. She then sat rotting until 2005, when she was moved to Warkworth for rebuilding. A full rebuild, using modern materials has been done at Warkworth, and

3726-471: The vessel was relaunched on 16 May 2009. She returned to sail later, and has been occasionally under sail in the Hauraki Gulf. She is the only original New Zealand scow still afloat to carry sail. The Echo was built in 1905 of Kauri in New Zealand . She is 104 feet (32 m) long, with two masts and topsail rigged. Twin diesel engines were installed in 1920. In 1942–44 she was used by US forces in

3795-424: The west coast of America although the majority were based in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand. The scow schooner Alma of San Francisco , built in 1891, restored in the 1960s, and designated a National Historic Landmark (NHL) in 1988, was one of the last scow schooners in operation. She is a small example, 59 feet in length, 22.6 feet in beam, with a draft of 4 feet and a loaded displacement of 41 tons. Elsie

3864-614: The western side of the river. The downtown area has suffered many river floods over the years and during the Depression commerce declined. A lack of funds prevented the demolition of the old homes and buildings. In the 1960s there was a counterculture migration out of San Francisco into Marin County and southern Sonoma County, in search of inexpensive housing in a less urban environment. The old Victorian, Queen Anne and Eastlake -style houses were restored. Historic iron-front buildings in

3933-471: Was 1998 with 45.93 inches (1,167 mm) and the driest year was 1976 with 8.29 inches (211 mm). The wettest month was February 1998 with 19.59 inches (498 mm). The most precipitation in 24 hours was 4.29 inches (109 mm) on December 27, 2004. Although snow is rare in Petaluma, 1.5 inches (38 mm) fell in January 1916, as well as about 3 inches (76 mm) in January 2002. Data released by

4002-403: Was 40.3 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.8 males. There were 22,736 housing units at an average density of 1,569.2 per square mile (605.9/km ), of which 14,159 (65.1%) were owner-occupied, and 7,578 (34.9%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1.3%; the rental vacancy rate was 4.8%. 37,389 people (64.5% of

4071-588: Was 59,776 according to the 2020 census . Petaluma's name comes from the Miwok village named Péta Lúuma that was located on the banks of the Petaluma River . The modern city originates in Rancho Petaluma , granted in 1834 to famed Californio statesman Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo , considered to be the founder of Petaluma. Today, Petaluma is known for its well-preserved historic center and as

4140-419: Was 60 feet 6 inches in length, seventeen feet 3 inches in breadth and had a draught of three feet 4 inches. It was fitted with lee boards (a type of keel slotted onto the sides of the vessel), but these were highly impracticable in rough weather on the New Zealand coast. Later scows were constructed with the much safer slab-sided centre board, which crews raised and lowered as required. This one small craft spawned

4209-421: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.63. There were 14,701 families (67.6% of all households); the average family size was 3.14. The population was spread out, with 13,455 people (23.2%) under the age of 18, 4,589 people (7.9%) aged 18 to 24, 15,041 people (26.0%) aged 25 to 44, 17,273 people (29.8%) aged 45 to 64, and 7,583 people (13.1%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age

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4278-425: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.70 and the average family size was 3.16. The age distribution is: 26.2% under the age of 18, 7.2% from 18 to 24, 31.5% from 25 to 44, 24.1% from 45 to 64, and 11.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.9 males. The median income for

4347-463: Was an airline flight attendant based in San Francisco when she was involuntarily furloughed for six months in the wake of the September 11 attacks . During the furlough , she began co-writing, with Abraham Levy, the screenplay for The Aviary , a film about four flight attendants who live together in an apartment. Tree and Levy self-financed and distributed the $ 25,000 film. Tree was one of

4416-478: Was copied and modified in New Zealand by early immigrant settlers to Auckland in the 1870s. In 1873, a sea captain named George Spencer, who had once lived and worked on the American Great Lakes and had gained a first-hand knowledge of the practical working capabilities of the sailing barges that plied their trade on the lakes, recognised the potential use of similar craft in the protected waters of

4485-447: Was part of a 66,000-acre (270 km ) 1834 Mexican land grant by Governor Jose Figueroa to Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo called Rancho Petaluma . In 1836, Vallejo ordered construction of his Rancho Petaluma Adobe, a ranch house near Petaluma, which his family often used as a summer home, while he resided in the neighboring town of Sonoma . Vallejo's influence and Mexican control in the region began to decline after Vallejo's arrest during

4554-480: Was purchased by Cisco . Some Cerent employees went on to purchase the Phoenix Theater , a local entertainment venue, which was once an opera house. In 2021, Petaluma established a goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030. In March of that year, the city formally prohibited construction of new gas stations , becoming the first municipality in the world to enact such a ban. The city also streamlined

4623-574: Was re-masted and re-rigged to its original splendour. The Owhiti was sold to Captain Dave Skyme and fully restored to its 1924 sea worthiness, and it subsequently starred in the 1983 movie Savage Islands (starring Tommy Lee Jones and amongst others Kiwi icon and singer Prince Tui Teka as King Ponapa). Unfortunately the Owhiti was not maintained for a period of time, during which teredo shipworms destroyed much of her structure. She remains in

4692-620: Was the last scow sloop operated on the Chesapeake Bay. Although sailing scows were once numerous around the Bay, they are poorly documented. The Ted Ashby is a ketch-rigged scow built in 1993 and based at the New Zealand National Maritime Museum in Auckland, it regularly sails the Auckland harbour as a tourist attraction. It was named after an old-time New Zealand seafarer and scowman, Ted Ashby, who had

4761-662: Was the loss of the seaworthiness of flat-bottomed scow boats in open water and bad weather. The squared-off shape and simple lines of a scow make it a popular choice for simple home-built boats made from plywood . Phil Bolger and Jim Michalak , for example, have designed a number of small sailing scows, and the PD Racer and the John Spencer designed Firebug are growing classes of home-built sailing scow. Generally these designs are created to minimize waste when using standard 4-foot by 8-foot sheets of plywood. The scow hull

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