Jean Varda
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Jean "Yanko" Varda was a Turkish-born American artist, best known for his collage work. Varda was one of the early adopters of the Sausalito houseboat lifestyle that was popular in the 1960s–1970s. He
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Tile mural by Jean Varda and Alfonso Pardiñas at Union City station, seen in January 2020.
Vallejo (ferry)
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The Vallejo is a houseboat in Sausalito, California, United States. It was originally a passenger ferry in Portland, Oregon, known as O&CRR Ferry No. 2, in the late 19th century. After falling into di
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…now the San Francisco Art Institute). In approximately 1947, Varda and British-born artist Gordon Onslow Ford acquired an old ferryboat called the Vallejo. They permanently moored the Vallejo in Sausalito, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. Using materials scavenged from a closed-down wartime…
Vallejo during its time as a ferry between Mare Island and Vallejo