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The area around the south end of Columbus Avenue was once known as the Barbary Coast, a seedy and boisterous waterfront district, with sailors on shore leave haunting the bars and brothels, while their captains shanghaied drunken civilians to make up lost crew.
In the absence of a predetermined command structure to deal with an incident of this magnitude, a number of PAPD inspectors, captains, and lieutenants stepped forward at around 9:30 to formulate an on-site response plan.
English sea captains also came to know the beautiful but deserted Bahamian islands during the 17th century.
The so-called Untouchables have greater opportunities now to rise on the social scale, a few of them becoming captains of industry or cabinet ministers, but it’s still their brethren who sweep the streets.
It sees the bills as a triumph of "small interests," noting that they contain special provisions for the likes of "bakery companies, apple cider distillers, low-income farmers, luxury boaters, sky-diving instructors and even whaling captains."