San Francisco, California

He was wearing boxing gloves, took a dive one day,
off the Golden Gate Bridge into China Bay.


Timothy Herrick (TIMHRK@aol.com):
 (Excuse my ignorance, but where is China Bay? I used to think it was shiny
bay, but the lyric sheet says differently. I am not sure if they also call
the San Francisco Bay China Bay, or it is some place in Vietnam or something)


Tiny Montgomery / Basement Tapes / 1967, 1975


Tell everybody down in ole Frisco
tell them Tiny Montgomery says hello


Maybe Someday
you say were going to Frisco, stay a couple of months
I used to love San Francisco, I was there for a party once

She's Your Lover Now / Bootleg series / 

It's true, I just can't recall, San Francisco at all, 
I can't even remember El Paso honey!!!" 


China Bay is the section between the city and South San Francisco by
Candlestick Park (not far from the airport).

Cheers, David Gitin

Date: 10 Dec 2005
From: Jack Nestor
Subject: San Francisco, China Bay or China Basin?
To: webmaster@expectingrain.com

Regarding the "San Francisco" entry in the Dylan
Atlas and the reference to China Bay, there is no
China Bay that I know of in the area.  The area
described in the contribution of David Gitin is
actually on the San Francisco Bay and that would
make China Bay the only bay-within-a-bay I have
ever seen.  China Basin does in fact exist and is
a minor inlet and shipping channel not far at all
from the financial district of San Francisco (to
the south) and was a pretty seedy area until the
current park in which the Giants play their home
games was built on the banks of China Basin.

I worked in the area while I was in college for
the grand-daddy of the bicycle messengers whose
office and dispatch was near there. 

I might suggest a seperate entry in the Atlas for
China Bay.