Harre W. Demoro

Harre Wilkins Demoro (July 8, 1939–March 19, 1993) was an American journalist and author from the San Francisco Bay Area who primarily covered public transportation and ferries. He worked for several newspapers in the Bay Area, including the San Francisco Chronicle and Oakland Tribune, and covered the development of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system. Demoro authored 14 books on transportation history. Demoro attended Encinal High School in Alameda, Oakland City College (now Laney College,) and California State College at Hayward.

Career

After serving in the U.S. Army National Guard, Demoro joined the San Leandro Morning News as a reporter in 1962. He wrote articles for the Fremont News Register, San Jose Mercury, and Hayward Morning News in his early career. He was selected to join a delegation from the United States Department of Transportation on a trip to the Soviet Union in 1971 to examine the country's transportation systems. Demoro wrote a two-part history of the Key System in 1985 that was published using records that were saved from destruction and kept at a rented storage unit for preservation. in 1986. Demoro died on March 19, 1993, after heart surgery at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, California, at the age of 53.

List of works