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The development of Ramona Street, named after the 1884 novel Ramona, [2] was an early successful attempt to expand laterally the central commercial district. Pedro Joseph de Lemos, a craftsman, graphic artist and curator of the Stanford Museum had been concerned with the larger scale and somewhat linear development along University Avenue.
English: Map of the bridges of San Francisco Bay — in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Excluding bridges over the Carquinez Straits, which lie to the northeast of this map. Date
City in California, United States Palo Alto, California City Baylands Nature Preserve, Ramona Street Architectural District, Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto History Museum, Palo Alto Circle Flag Seal Logo Etymology: from Spanish palo alto 'tall stick' Location in Santa Clara County and California Palo Alto, California Show map of San Francisco Bay Area Palo Alto, California Show map of ...
The official name of the bridge for all functional purposes has always been the "San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge", and, by most local people, it is referred to simply as "the Bay Bridge". Rolph, a Mayor of San Francisco from 1912 to 1931, was the Governor of California at the time construction of the bridge began. He died in office on June 2 ...
The 1948 Transportation Plan for San Francisco, prepared by De Leuw, Cather and Company, included the Central Freeway. This elevated roadway would begin at the Bayshore Freeway – the approach to the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge – near Division Street and head west and north around the periphery of downtown San Francisco.
The San Francisco Bay Trail is a bicycle and pedestrian trail that will eventually allow continuous travel around the shoreline of San Francisco Bay. As of 2016, 350 miles (560 km) of trail have been completed, while the full plan calls for a trail over 500 miles (800 km) long that link the shoreline of nine counties, passing through 47 cities ...
Then, roughly five years ago, San Francisco Magazine published a story on iceberg homes. The author wrote: “In Palo Alto, as in many other affluent yet zoning-constrained enclaves around the Bay ...
San Francisco construction included segments to the north, opened in 1953, [52] and the south. [46] The connection to the upper deck of the Bay Bridge [53] opened in June 1955. [54] Construction in San Francisco was completed by 1958. [55] View south from Candlestick Hill in San Francisco (2013), showing US 101 over the 1957 causeway.