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Interior of the Drill Court showing boxing ring, ca. 1928. From the 1920s through the 1940s, the Mission Armory served as San Francisco's primary sports venue, eventually earning the nickname "the Madison Square Garden of the West." [12] For almost three decades, at least two prizefights were held in the Drill Court each week.
By the 1870s it became apparent that San Francisco was in dire need of a federal building to house the federal courts and the post office that were located in various downtown buildings. In 1887 a commission delegated to select a site reported that the $350,000 allocated by the U.S. Congress was insufficient and the sum was raised to $1,250,000.
The Phillip Burton Federal Building & United States Courthouse is a massive 21-floor, 312 feet (95 m) federal office building located at 450 Golden Gate Avenue near San Francisco's Civic Center and the San Francisco City Hall. [3]
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 18:58, 17 April 2018: 620 × 402 (768 KB): BenbowInn: DC and FED are circuits too, added black circles to emphasize them, also converted to plain SVG
Following is a list of current and former courthouses of the United States federal court system located in Texas.Each entry indicates the name of the building along with an image, if available, its location and the jurisdiction it covers, [1] the dates during which it was used for each such jurisdiction, and, if applicable the person for whom it was named, and the date of renaming.
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1902: First rotary drill rig in California reportedly drills a well at Coalinga field, but the hole is so crooked that a cable tool is used to redrill the well. 1903: Midway-Sunset Field and Kern River production makes California the top oil producing state. 1904: Kern River produces 17.2 million bbls of oil, exceeding annual Texas production.
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