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  2. Nicknames of San Francisco - Wikipedia

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    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] The Golden City – in reference to the California Gold Rush and golden brown grass on hillsides in the dry ...

  3. List of San Francisco placename etymologies - Wikipedia

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    A man was charged in the 1988 incident, and San Francisco city officials stressed the cost of removing the stickers in the 2009 incident. Per a 1918 San Francisco Chronicle article, Bush Street is named after a physician, Jonathan Platt Bush (J.P. Bush). Cabrillo Street: Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo: California Street: State of California: Capp ...

  4. San Francisco - Wikipedia

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    San Francisco, [23] officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center within Northern California.With a population of 808,988 residents as of 2023, [14] San Francisco is the fourth-most populous city in the state of California and the 17th-most populous in the U.S.

  5. List of place names of Spanish origin in the United States

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    The Castro, San Francisco, a neighborhood in San Francisco, California Tierrasanta, San Diego , a neighborhood in the city of San Diego , California ( holy land ) Trinidad, Washington, D.C. , neighborhood located in Ward 5, in the northeast quadrant of Washington, D.C. (the area got its name from 19th century speculator James Barry, who had ...

  6. Yelamu - Wikipedia

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    According to anthropologists the Yelamu people and their Ohlone neighbors arrived in the San Francisco area between 4,000–6,000 years ago. They live on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in the region comprising the City and County of San Francisco before the arrival of Spanish missionaries in 1769.

  7. San Francisco adopting new language for criminals ... - AOL

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    The city of San Francisco is trying to change the public’s perception of criminals by introducing new language to refer to someone who committed a crime. The Board of Supervisors put the changes ...

  8. San Francisco could get 90% of its homeless off the streets ...

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    The city by the bay has tens of thousands of vacant ... San Francisco could get 90% of its homeless off the streets with the country’s fiercest housing speculation tax, but landlords are already ...

  9. Yerba Buena, California - Wikipedia

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    The uninhabited northeastern area of San Francisco was called El Paraje de Yerba Buena (The Place of the Good Herb), derived from the Spanish geographical term paraje, meaning "place", "camp", or "stopping point" and yerba buena, the Spanish name for plants in the mint family, used in Alta California for Clinopodium douglasii, which grew abundantly in this area.