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The Curran Theatre, located at 445 Geary Street between Taylor and Mason Streets in the Theatre District of San Francisco, California opened in February 1922, and was named after its first owner, Homer Curran. As of 2014, the theater is owned by Carole Shorenstein Hays.
The Fox Theatre was a 4,651-seat movie palace located at 1350 Market Street in San Francisco, California. The theater was designed by the noted theater architect, Thomas W. Lamb. Opened in 1929, the theater operated until 1963, when it was closed and demolished. [1]
On Wednesday, December 23, 1964, Flying Tiger Line Flight 282 arrived at San Francisco International Airport from Japan. Filled with a cargo of electronic equipment, bolts of fabric, women's scarves, bandannas, purses, and costume jewelry for the Christmas holiday, the craft was refueled and then departed just after midnight with a crew of three, 41,000 pounds (19,000 kg) of cargo, 136 pounds ...
Candlestick Park was an outdoor stadium on the West Coast of the United States, located in San Francisco's Hunters Point area. The stadium was originally the home of Major League Baseball's San Francisco Giants, who played there from 1960 until 1999, after which the Giants moved into Pacific Bell Park (since renamed Oracle Park) in 2000.
And as a reminder, Christmas did not become a federal holiday until 1870. Today, we celebrate the holiday season with Christmas trees , yule logs and figgy pudding .
1868 – San Francisco County Medical Society [8] and Women's Co-operative Printing Office established. 1869 California Theatre opens. San Francisco Yacht Club founded. [8] Grand hotel built. [1] Central Pacific Railroad line to Oakland completed. [2] 1870 Golden Gate Park [9] and San Francisco Microscopical Society [24] established. Population ...
Modern San Francisco airport diagram showing runway layout (in 1971 runway 28R was more than 2,000 feet (610 m) shorter) [5] Flight 845's crew had planned and calculated its takeoff for runway 28L but discovered only after pushback that this runway had been closed hours earlier for maintenance, [6] and that the first 1,000 feet (300 m) of runway 01R, the preferential runway at that time, [a ...
Shoreline Amphitheatre is an outdoor amphitheater located in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The venue has a capacity of 22,500, with 6,500 reserved seats and 16,000 general admission on the lawn. When the parking lot is utilized for festival stages, the total capacity of the venue can reach 30,000.