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The Peninsula Library System (PLS) is a consortium of public and community college libraries [3] in San Mateo County, California, United States, which serves the part of the San Francisco Bay Area known as "The Peninsula". The system has dozens of branches in local communities and at various area community colleges, a bookmobile, and automated ...
Bayshore, the easternmost neighborhood of Daly City, was an incorporated city, Bayshore City, from 1932 to 1940; it was annexed to Daly City in 1963. [32] Several Daly City neighborhoods, such as Crocker, Southern Hills, and Bayshore, share a street grid and similar characteristics with adjacent San Francisco neighborhoods, such as Crocker ...
Visitacion Valley takes its name from Rancho Cañada de Guadalupe la Visitación y Rodeo Viejo, a large tract of land that also included the Bayshore district of Daly City, the city of Brisbane, and San Bruno Mountain. The term "Visitacion" is Spanish [5] and a reference to the Visitation in Luke 1:39 of the Bible.
[7] [8] The Bayshore neighborhood features the 1941 Cow Palace indoor arena, and faces a large bay-landfill. At the western end of the mountain, Daly City's "top-of-the-hill" community was founded on John Daly's dairy farm by San Francisco residents fleeing the 1906 quake. [9]
Daly City. Daly City station is an elevated Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station in Daly City, California, just south of the city limits of San Francisco. It is adjacent to Interstate 280 and California Route 1, which it serves as a park-and-ride station. The station is served by the Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue lines; it is the western ...
The region is home to three major cities: San Francisco, Oakland and, the largest, San Jose. The Bay Area has been inhabited since antiquity, first by the Ohlone and Miwok peoples, followed by the Spanish, who first arrived in 1769 and established the area's first mission, Mission San Francisco de Asís, in 1776. [2][3][4] After being ceded to ...
Bayshore City was an incorporated city in San Mateo County, California. The primary driving force for its incorporation in 1932 was to create an area near San Francisco where greyhound racing could be legal and practiced. [1] Consisting of about 30 blocks and containing about 800 residents at its foundation, [2] the city was disincorporated in ...
The Bayshore Cutoff (originally the Southern Pacific Bay Shore Cut-Off) [1] is the rail line between San Francisco and San Bruno along the eastern shore (San Francisco Bay side) of the San Francisco Peninsula. It was completed by Southern Pacific (SP) in 1907 at a cost of $7 million (equivalent to $229 million adjusted for inflation), and ...