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Portola Drive is the extension of Market Street into the south and western portion of San Francisco; San Jose Avenue, a major commuter road, brings thousands of cars into San Francisco every day (aka the Bernal Cut) Van Ness Avenue acts as US 101 through the heart of San Francisco from the Central Freeway towards the northern section of the ...
This San Francisco skyline (featuring a "flaccid" Transamerica Pyramid) headed Caen's columns from 1976 until his death. [3]Herbert Eugene Caen was born April 3, 1916, in Sacramento, California, to a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother, [4] but he liked to point out that his parents—pool hall operator Lucien Caen and Augusta (Gross) Caen [5] —had spent the summer nine months ...
SFC (San Francisco City) Sunset City; The City – used by native San Franciscans and people in the Bay Area [1] The City by the Bay – refers to San Francisco Bay [12] The City of Love – as seen in Cool, Gray City of Love by Gary Kamiya [13] and in the lyrics of "San Francisco" by German eurodance group Cascada [14] The City that Knows How [15]
Capp was secretary of the San Francisco Homestead Union, the first homestead association in San Francisco. The street runs through the lands of the association. [9] Castro Street: José Castro: A Californio leader of Mexican opposition to U.S. rule in California in the 19th century, and alcalde (mayor) of Alta California from 1835 to 1836.
By 1920, San Francisco’s Greek colony was the fourth-largest in the country. Census figures showed 5,922 Greeks in the city in 1930. In 1923, according to the San Francisco Examiner, Greeks owned 564 restaurants and were disproportionately represented as proprietors of groceries, candy stores, shoeshine stands, laundries and flower stands. [2]
The Bayshore Freeway is a part of U.S. Route 101 (US 101) in the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California. It runs along the west shore of the San Francisco Bay, connecting San Jose with San Francisco. Within the city of San Francisco, the freeway is also known as James Lick Freeway, named after the California philanthropist.
Kaliflower helped create the culture of Haight-Ashbury and the San Francisco hippie movement during the 1970s. The commune that produced the newsletter influenced the formation, structure, and principles of many other communes including The House of Love and Prayer [20] and the One Mind Temple (which became the St. John Coltrane Church). [21]
The Financial District is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, United States, that serves as its main central business district and had 372,829 jobs according to U.S. census tracts as of 2012–2016. [5]