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The post-war years saw a flurry of new construction on the site; the Science Hall was added in 1951, followed by the Morrison Planetarium in 1952. The Morrison Planetarium was the seventh major planetarium to open in the United States and featured a one-of-a-kind star projector, built by Academy staff members (in part using the expertise gained ...
After the war neither of Zeiss's two main factories in Oberkochen and Jena were capable of building a planetarium projector. Because of this, the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco commissioned a comparable, one-of-a-kind projector for the Morrison Planetarium, the first for a U.S. planetarium dome larger than 50 feet across. After ...
February, 1955: Reporter Charles Raudebaugh writes a 12-part series titled "the Untold Story of the San Francisco Police Dept." for the San Francisco Chronicle. The editors preface states; "The people of San Francisco are entitled to a full, if unpleasant report on what sort of police they are getting for their money.
The San Francisco Police Department is led by a Chief of Police who is appointed by the Mayor of San Francisco. The chief works with two assistant chiefs and five deputy chiefs directing the six bureaus: Administration, Airport, Chief of Staff, Field Operations, Professional Standards and Principled Policing and Special Operations, as well as ...
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A mysterious letter sent to the San Francisco Police Department in 2013 by a man who claimed to have escaped from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was just obtained by local television station KPIX. ...
Northern tip of San Francisco Peninsula on U.S. 101: Presidio: 141: Pumping Station No. 2 San Francisco Fire Department Auxiliary Water Supply System: Pumping Station No. 2 San Francisco Fire Department Auxiliary Water Supply System
San Diego: San Diego Natural History Museum: 12.4 m (est.) 235 lb (106.6 kg) 7 s (estimate) San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences: 30 ft (9.14 m) 235 lb (106.6 kg) 6.1 s San Francisco: Calico Labs: San Jose: Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum & Planetarium: San Jose: The Harker School: Santa Barbara: Museum of Natural History: Currently ...