Panorama of the the Bay bridge and the San Francisco Belle, at Blue hour with moon. The San Francisco Belle, built in 1994 in Louisiana, was used as a floating casino on the Missouri River in St. Charles, Missouri. She's now known as San Francisco's landmark paddleboat. She features three fully enclosed decks, plus a large sun deck with a canopy cover. The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, known locally as the Bay Bridge, is a complex of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay in California. As part of Interstate 80 and the direct road between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries about 260,000