Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Wiggle is a 1-mile (1.6 km) zig-zagging bicycle route from Market Street to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California, that minimizes hilly inclines for bicycle riders. Rising 120 feet (37 m), The Wiggle inclines average 3% and never exceed 6%.
John McLaren Park is a park in southeastern San Francisco. At 312.54 acres (126.48 ha), McLaren Park is the third largest park in San Francisco by area, after Golden Gate Park and the Presidio . The park is surrounded mostly by the Excelsior , Crocker-Amazon , Visitacion Valley , Portola and University Mound neighborhoods.
The "Hills" chapter of Gladys Hansen's San Francisco Almanac [4] repeated the list given in Hills of San Francisco and added the then-recently-named Cathedral Hill for a total of 43, but the "Places" chapter [5] listed many additional hills. More recent lists include more hills, some lesser-known, some not on the mainland, and some without names.
In the late 1930s, residents of San Francisco and the greater Bay Area celebrated the completion of both the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge.In July 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was given a vehicular tour of the city, including its two bridges, with Senator William Gibbs McAdoo and Mayor Angelo Joseph Rossi before speaking at the Treasure Island fairgrounds ...
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 former army barracks turned housing projects on Sunnydale Avenue, the Sunnydale Projects, is the largest in San Francisco [9] [10] and remains one of the most violent areas of the city. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The two high-rise apartment buildings, Geneva Towers, originally built as private housing in the 1960s, were converted to public housing in ...
A topographic map of southeast San Francisco with a quote from Wendell Berry [24] [25] Photographs showing the growth of Visitacion Valley, with a quote from local resident Frank Taylor [25] [26] San Bruno Mountain: An aerial photograph of McLaren Park with a quotation from Rabindranath Tagore about butterflies and time [27] [28]
The Jerry Garcia Amphitheater is an outdoor concert venue located in McLaren Park in San Francisco, California, [2] [3] opened in 1971. [1] Its maximum capacity (as of 2022) is 1,200 people. [ 1 ] It is named after Jerry Garcia of the rock band Grateful Dead , [ 1 ] and is the site of the annual Jerry Day event, at which various musical groups ...