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100 unusual facts about San Francisco


1990 Volvo San Francisco

It was the 101st edition of the event known that year as the Volvo San Francisco, and part of the ATP World Series, Free Week series of the 1990 ATP Tour.

Abdullah bin Musa'ed bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Abdullah bin Musa'ed known for his love of reading and football sports, he personally admires San Francisco 49ers, an American football club based in San Francisco.

Ad Santel

Santel lost his World Light Heavyweight Championship to Gobar Goho of Calcutta (now Kolkata), India on 30 August 1921 in San Francisco.

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ANCEP

The institution has schools in the following locations: Bali, Mexico, Canada, London, New York, San Francisco, Cape Town.

AnExchange

In 1968, the record producer and saxophonist, Jack Schaeffer discovered the singer, Patty Parsons playing with the acoustic guitarist, Dale Jared, at Mooneys Irish Pub Sin San Francisco, and with lead guitarist, Dan Anthony (formerly Jaramillo) formed the new group.

Anne de Graaf

Anne de Graaf was born in San Francisco, graduated from Stanford University, and currently lives in Ireland and the Netherlands with her husband and their two children.

Ark Yuey Wong

He stayed in San Francisco, Oakland and Stockholm, where he taught many Chinese students, since at the time the Chinese community was still very secretive about their martial arts.

Arthur Kornberg

Thomas discovered DNA polymerase II and III in 1970 and is now a professor at the University of California, San Francisco.

At Golden Gate Park

At Golden Gate Park is an authorized release in the United Kingdom of a recording of the concert given on May 7, 1969 by the San Francisco, USA, rock band Jefferson Airplane at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

Atang de la Rama

At the height of her career, she sang kundimans and other Filipino songs in concerts in such cities as Hawaii, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo.

Belden Place

Also nearby are the Alliance Française, the French consulate, and the Notre-Dame-des-Victoires Church (where mass is still celebrated in French) and an affiliated elementary school.

Billy Mavreas

His posters, featuring otherworldly creatures, especially bunnies, influenced by the Psychedelic art stylings of San Francisco artists such as Rick Griffin and Victor Moscoso, figured strongly in the Montreal literary and spoken word scene of the 1990s.

Blue rockfish

Blue rockfish were once an important part of the California fishery; they were the most common rockfish marketed in San Francisco and San Diego during the 19th century, but have since declined in popularity.

Boeing Model 40

Boeing's bid of $3 per lb was much less than any of the competing bids, and Boeing was awarded the San Francisco to Chicago contract in January 1927, building 24 Model 40As for the route (with a further aircraft being used as a testbed by Pratt & Whitney).

Borislav Pekić

The Devils Heaven (The Summer of White Roses) won an award at the film festival in Tokyo in 1989 and was selected the same year to represent Yugoslavia at film festivals in Montpellier (France), Pula (Croatia), San Sebastián (Spain), and Los Angeles and San Francisco (USA).

Brandon C. Rodegeb

Brandon was born in San Francisco, CA at San Francisco General Hospital and raised in the public housing projects between Palou and Oakdale Avenue in the Hunter's Point District of San Francisco, California.

Brother Power the Geek

In addition, it is also established that the events of the original series had taken place in Gotham City (they had previously been explicitly set in San Francisco with "the governor" clearly drawn as Reagan).

Center for Food Safety

The Center for Food Safety (CFS) is a U.S. non-profit organization, based in Washington, D.C., that also maintains an office in San Francisco, CA.

Chief Engraver of the United States Mint

The Chief Engraver is the person who is in charge of coin design and engraving of dies at all four United States Mints: Philadelphia, Denver, San Francisco and West Point.

Classic Hot Tuna Electric

The tracks were recorded at a live electric performance on July 3, 1971 at the Fillmore West auditorium in San Francisco.

Dallas Area Rapid Transit

DART was created on August 13, 1983 as a regional replacement for the DTS (Although the name "Dallas Area Rapid Transit" was intended to reflect the new agency's coverage of the greater Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, its acronym DART almost immediately evoked comparisons to San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit system, known as BART).

Danny Maciocia

Maciocia grew up in the Saint Leonard neighborhood of suburban Montreal, and also spent part of his youth in San Francisco.

David Meltzer

In 1957, he moved to San Francisco and became part of a circle of writers based around Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan.

David Park Barnitz

In 1901, San Francisco bookseller William Doxey, publisher of the popular humorist Gelett Burgess, as well as many obscure, macabre (and sometimes decadent) authors, came to New York City.

Desert Wind

This train included the Challenger, City of Denver, City of Kansas City, City of Los Angeles, City of Portland, and City of San Francisco.

Domenico Tojetti

In 1867 Tojetti moved with his family to Guatemala, then Mexico, and finally to San Francisco, California, where he produced paintings for churches, public and private buildings.

Duke Ellington's Sacred Concerts

As early as October 1962, the Reverend John S. Yaryan approached Ellington about performing at the new Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.

Edward Coxen

In 1880, Joseph Coxen's brother John and wife Ellen left England and settled in San Francisco.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

Her stage career began at age 17 in San Francisco and she worked in stock companies from Honolulu to Milwaukee before making her New York debut in 1900 as Bonita, the ranchman's daughter in Augustus Thomas's Arizona.

Faika of Egypt

Faika married Fouad Sadek, a commoner Egyptian and a consular officer, in a civil ceremony on 5 April 1950 in San Francisco.

Fog City

Fog City is a nickname for San Francisco.

Frederick Hamilton March

He claimed that he ran away from his home, and stowed away on a ship sailing from Sydney to San Francisco.

Fushigi Yûgi

In 1998 Watase visited the United States and met with Viz staff members at their San Francisco headquarters.

Gee Bee Sportster

The Model X, piloted by Lowell Bayles placed second in the race from Detroit to San Francisco and back, averaging 116.4 mph (186.7 km/h) over the 5,541 mile (8,887 km) distance.

George H. Cobb

He was a member of the Nw York State Commsission for the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915.

George Rodiek

George Rodiek was one of the defendants in the Hindu German Conspiracy Trial, in San Francisco, 1918.

Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine

In December 1959 Gonzalo's engagement to Dorothy Marguerite Fritz of San Francisco, daughter of Nicholas Eugene Fritz, Jr., was announced.

Grace Holloway

When the Seventh Doctor lands on December 30, 1999 in San Francisco, he is gunned down by a gang on the streets of Chinatown.

Guglielmo Ciardi

Awarded a gold medal in 1915 at the San Francisco Exhibition, where the participants included his children Beppe and Emma, he was struck down by paralysis and died two years later.

History of transport in China

CAAC had 274 air routes, including 33 international flights to 28 cities in 23 countries, such as Tokyo, Osaka, Nagasaki, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Frankfurt, East Berlin, Zurich, Moscow, Istanbul, Manila, Bangkok, Singapore, Sydney, and Hong Kong.

Indira Talwani

She served as an associate at the San Francisco, California, law firm of Altshuler Berzon LLP, from 1989 to 1995 and as a partner at that law firm, from 1996 to 1999.

Ivan Senin

As a member of USSR delegation, in 1945 Ivan Senin participated in the UN conference in San Francisco, in 1947 in Paris on behalf of USSR Government he signed peace treaties with Italy, Finland, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary.

Jack Hirschman

For a quarter century, Hirschman has roamed San Francisco streets, cafes (including Caffe Trieste, where he has been a regular patron), and readings, becoming an active street poet and a peripatetic activist.

Jack Wasserman

:Vancouver erupted as the vaudeville capital of Canada, rivaling and finally outstripping Montreal in the East and San Francisco in the south as one of the few places where the brightest stars of the nightclub era could be glimpsed from behind a post, through a smoke-filled room, over the heads of $20 tippers at ringside.

Jean Deleage

Five years later, in 1976, Deleage founded Sofinnova’s US business, based in San Francisco, Sofinnova, Inc.

John E. Manders

He attended the University of San Francisco and the San Francisco Law School, and was admitted to the California Bar in 1918.

John Garrick

John Garrick (Reginald Dandy; 31 August 1902 in Brighton, England – 22 October 1966 in San Francisco) was a British film actor.

John Hugh Gillis

On a bet and a dare, on 31 January 1906 at the age of 22 he set out from North Sydney, Nova Scotia, with two others to walk to San Francisco and back within a year.

Joseph Le Brix

In the Breguet 19 G.R. Nungesser-Coli, Le Brix and the French aviator Dieudonné Costes made a round-the-world trip between October 1927 and April 1928, traveling 57,000 km (35,400 miles) with a total flying time of 350 hours, although they covered the segment between San Francisco, California, and Tokyo, Japan, aboard ship.

Kalākaua

His health continued to worsen, and he died on January 20, 1891 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.

Katerina Gogou

One of her books was translated into English, "Three clicks left" in the United States in 1983 by Jack Hirschman and published by "Night Horn Books" in San Francisco.

Kevin J. Mullen

Kevin J. Mullen (October 7, 1935 in San Francisco – April 18, 2011 Novato, California) was an American crime writer.

L'Aura

L'Aura spent two years in San Francisco in preparation for recording her first record titled Okumuki, which was recorded in Italy and released in 2005.

Lafayette Guild

Guild died in San Francisco, California and was interred in Evergreen Cemetery in his native Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Laurence Silberman

Silberman has worked in the private sector as a partner at the law firms Moore, Silberman & Schulze in Honolulu and Morrison & Foerster and Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, D.C. He has also served as Executive Vice President of Crocker National Bank in San Francisco.

Leonard Koppett

According to his daughter Katherine Koppett, shortly before his death at age 79 in San Francisco, Koppett commented, "Every decade of my life has been better than the decade before."

Leopold Engleitner

They gave lectures in Washington, D.C., (at Georgetown University and Library of Congress), New York (at Columbia University), Chicago (at Harold Washington College), Skokie (for the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois), Palo Alto, in the San Francisco Bay area (Stanford University) and Los Angeles (at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust).

Liegen lernen

Britta, however, suddenly moves to San Francisco to live with her father and whilst there, finds a new boyfriend.

Look Tin Eli

After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, he was one of a group of merchants who hired American architects to rebuild San Francisco's Chinatown in a stereotypical "Oriental" style in order to promote tourism and social change.

Malia Cohen

Malia Cohen (born 1977) is an American politician currently serving on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing District 10, consisting of Bayview-Hunters Point, McLaren Park, part of the Portola, Potrero Hill, and Visitacion Valley.

Maureen Kaila Vergara

Maureen Kaila Vergara (born December 17, 1964 in San Francisco, United States) is a retired Salvadoran cycle racer who used to ride for the 800.com team.

McKenzie River Corporation

McKenzie River Corporation is a beverage marketing firm based in San Francisco, CA.

Memphis Street Railway Co

Memphis, then only 44 square miles (smaller than San Francisco), could be traversed easily with frequent service to within blocks of any corner in the city.

MetaDesign

In 1992, MetaDesign established the San Francisco office, around Bill Hill (IDEO) and Terry Irwin (Landor Associates), and then in 1995 the London office around Tim Fendley (now Founder of Applied Information Group), and Robin Richmond (now founder Immersive Projects), formerly Union Design.

Morris Moss

He was educated at University College and at age nineteen he travelled to Victoria, by way of Panama and San Francisco, to act as that city's agent of Liebes and Co., well-known fur traders at the time.

N. G. Ranga

He represented India at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (Copenhagen) in 1946, the International Labour Organisation (San Francisco) in 1948, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (Ottawa) in 1952, the International Peasant Union (New York) in 1954 and the Asian Congress for World Government (Tokyo) in 1955.

Newcastle Island Marine Provincial Park

Sandstone quarrying began on Newcastle Island in 1869 when Joseph Emery from the United States Mint in San Francisco went looking for good quality sandstone for their new building.

Nihat Erim

He also served as an advisor in the Turkish committee at the conference on the foundation of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945.

Preston Martin

He died of cancer, aged 83 in San Francisco survived by his son Pier Preston Martin, also a banker.

Proventricular Dilatation Disease

In July 2008, a team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco was able to identify the virus that may cause PDD, which they have named Avian Bornavirus (ABV).

Rabbitson Crusoe

Sam looks back and sees the shark behind them and starts paddling faster, eventually going in the direction of San Francisco - which, according to a floating marker, is only 2,736 miles away.

Raker Act

The San Francisco Bay Guardian claims that San Francisco sold the power to PG&E, who then resold it back to the public at a profit, in violation of the act.

Reda Mansour

Prior to that, he served as DCM in the Israeli Embassy in Portugal and as Consul in the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco.

Reliance Globalcom

Reliance Communications announced the $300 million acquisition of San Francisco-based Yipes Holdings in July 2007.

Ronnie Knox

Aside from past residences in McKinleyville, CA, Malibu, CA, and San Francisco, Knox lived for short periods in other states, i.e. Maine and Texas.

Same-sex marriage in Cambodia

After witnessing same-sex marriages being performed in San Francisco during 2004, King Norodom Sihanouk expressed support for legalizing such unions in Cambodia, though he nor anyone in the government has yet to take any action to legislate them.

San Francisco's Doomed

The album was released in the UK on vinyl by punk reissue label Solar Lodge Records (run by John Balance of Coil) and on CD as a split release on Solar Lodge/Overground.

Second Bay Tradition

The Second Bay Tradition (or Second Bay Area Tradition) is an architectural style from the period of 1928 through 1942 that was rooted in San Francisco, the greater Bay Area, and the East Bay.

Shadowspire

Mourn II - When Shadowspire later re-formed in San Francisco, a second Mourn appeared as their front agent wearing similar armor.

Shanghai Animation Film Studio

In 1992 one of the first western company to come in contact with the studio is "Prrfect Animation" in San Francisco, United States.

Silicon Valley Network

Silicon Valley Network is an initiative to create free wireless coverage throughout the Bay Area, or at least in San Francisco and the Peninsula.

Sir Anthony Rumbold, 10th Baronet

When Churchill resigned and Eden became Prime Minister in April 1955, Rumbold remained for a few months as PPS to the new Foreign Secretary, Harold Macmillan, accompanying him to San Francisco in June 1955 for talks between the Foreign Ministers of the United States, Britain, France and Russia in preparation for the Geneva Summit in the following month.

Southern Pacific 4450

After the Union Pacific Railroad took over SP operations in the mid-1990s, 4450 and 4451 were assigned to local freight service in the San Francisco Bay Area until 1998, when 4450 was purchased by the Golden Gate Railroad Museum at Hunters Point in San Francisco and arrived there on April 28, 1998.

Southgate River

Its namesake was Captain James Johnson Southgate, a retired ship-master, who came to Victoria in 1859 via San Francisco and launched a commission and general mercantile business, largely in connection with the Pacific Station of the Royal Navy at Esquimalt, operating as J.J. Southgate & Co.

Stephen Williamson

In 1848 he went to Liverpool, and there founded, with Alexander Balfour, the firm of Balfour Williamson, trading with South America with offices in Valparaiso, Chile and San Francisco.

TerraNature

TerraNature is informally affiliated with, and supported by Terra Nature Fund, a California nonprofit public benefit corporation based in San Francisco.

The Fire Rose

Rose, fitting all the qualifications and having no other options, accepts the job and travels by train to his manor outside San Francisco.

The Paramount

The Paramount, a high-rise apartment building in San Francisco, California

Thoma Darmo

This resulted in a split from the Church (then headquartered in San Francisco, now headquartered in Chicago) and Darmo became one of the founders of the Ancient Church of the East.

Tomás Fabregas

He and his partner, Jeffrey L. Brooks made the decision to move to San Francisco.

Ugo Mattei

Ugo Mattei (born 1961 in Turin, Piedmont) is the Alfred and Hanna Fromm Professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in San Francisco, California and a full Professor of Civil Law in the University of Turin, Italy.

Verner Lehtimäki

A year later Lehtimäki brothers left to United States where Verner studied aviation and worked for several aviation companies in San Francisco, Chicago and New York.

Vinny Lingham

He was also previously the founder and CEO of Yola, Inc. (formerly known as SynthaSite), a San Francisco-based Web 2.0 start-up that provides free website building, publishing and hosting services.

Walter Knott

Early additions to the farm included the Ghost Town & Calico Railway, a narrow gauge railroad in the Ghost Town area, a San Francisco cable car, a Pan-for-Gold attraction, the Calico Mine Train dark ride and the Timber Mountain Log Ride log flume ride.

Walter Wyman

The Service first became involved in the situation in 1900 when MHS physician Joseph J. Kinyoun, stationed in San Francisco, confirmed by bacteriological analysis that the death of a laborer in the city's Chinatown section was due to bubonic plague.

William Richard Williamson

When this venture ended in failure, Williamson went to San Francisco and enlisted on a cargo ship bound for Bordeaux.

William Rivers Pitt

He was educated in English literature at Holy Cross College, a Catholic college in Massachusetts, and after graduation spent two years in San Francisco doing law-related work.

Wolfgang Schmidt

Schmidt later moved to San Francisco and became a stockbroker and management consultant.

Zoeth Skinner Eldredge

He appears to have self-published at least two books on the local history of San Francisco, California.


Adolphe Danziger De Castro

In 1883 he emigrated to the U.S.A., where he first lived as a journalist and teacher in St. Louis and Vincennes (IN), before settling in San Francisco in November 1884, where he practiced as a dentist and free-lance journalist until 1900.

Albert Falvey Webster

He was consumptive and went to California by way of the isthmus of Panama, and died on his way from San Francisco to Honolulu, and was buried in the Pacific.

At the Family Dog Ballroom

At the Family Dog Ballroom is a recording of a 1969 performance by the San Francisco rock band Jefferson Airplane at the Family Dog Ballroom in San Francisco.

Beppe Ciardi

The author of landscapes characterised by a symbolic interpretation of nature that won the esteem of critics, he was awarded the Fumagalli Prize in Milan (1900), a gold medal in Munich (1901) and a silver medal in San Francisco (1904).

Bucky O'Hare

Willy DuWitt – engineer, a pre-teen human from San Francisco who enters the Aniverse via a portal between the ship's photon accelerator and his own accelerator at home.

Carl Braden

The Bradens had three children: James, born in 1951, a 1972 Rhodes Scholar, and a 1980 graduate of Harvard Law School (where he preceded Barack Obama as editor of the Harvard Law Review), has lived and practiced law for over 25 years in San Francisco, California.

Carlomagno Pedro Martínez

His work has been featured in locations such as the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in Chicago, the Galería de la Raza in San Francisco and the Laumeier Sculpture Park in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Come Monday

At a live performance in 1974, Buffett mentioned that he wrote the song heading out to California the previous year, meaning that it would have been written as he was "heading up to San Francisco for the Labor Day Weekend show" in 1973.

David Perper

Perper then joined a brief (1984–85) reunion of The Youngbloods, and is known to have played as a substitute drummer for The Rhythm Rockers (Robert Valdez, guitar; Gil Roman, bass and lead vocals) circa 1990, for one gig at the now defunct Pat O'Shea's Mad Hatter on Geary Boulevard in San Francisco.

DCC Alliance

The founding of the DCC Alliance was announced at LinuxWorld San Francisco on the 9 August 2005, following a number of pre-announcements.

Downtown music

Likewise, despite its origin in New York musical politics, "Downtown" music is not solely specific to Manhattan; many major cities such as Chicago, San Francisco, even Birmingham, Alabama have alternative, Downtown music scenes.

Édouard Cortès

On November 30, 2000, four paintings by Cortès were recovered in Kalispell, Montana, following an eight-month investigation conducted by the FBI's San Francisco Division.

Electric Word

After the failure of Electric Word, Rossetto and his partner Jane Metcalfe moved to San Francisco, California and established Wired Magazine.

Electronic News

The paper eventually grew to have a staff of three dozen full time journalists, working out of headquarters staffed by full time journalists in New York and bureaus in Boston, Washington DC, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis and Tokyo.

Erwin Carlé

He worked as farmhand in Texas, Apothecary, dishwasher, translator for the German Western Post in St. Louis, and as Journalist in San Francisco.

Extriplex

It is known from the Central Valley and the valleys of the inner coast ranges, and from slightly north of San Francisco to Cedros Island, Baja California, where is grows on sandy coasts, in shrubland and salt marshes.

Fay Bellamy Powell

After her time in the Air Force, Bellamy moved all over the United States, from Florida to New York City to San Francisco, before settling down in Alabama.

George Willis Kirkaldy

George Willis Kirkaldy (1873, Clapham –1910, San Francisco) was an English, entomologist who specialised on Hemiptera.

Gordon Brody

He graduated from Duke University and he completed a hand fellowship at Ralph K. Davies Medical Center in San Francisco, California.

Greg Pattillo

After a summer spent as the acting principal flute of Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Pattillo moved to San Francisco where he was a founding member of the Collaborative Arts Insurgency and the 16th and Mission Thursday Night gathering for performers.

Gustavus Blin Wright

He arrived in British Columbia on February 28, 1862 aboard the steamer Brother Jonathan and began a partnership that operated vessels on the route between San Francisco and New Westminster.

I evighet

It was succeeded as Norwegian representative at the 1997 contest by Tor Endresen with "San Francisco".

Irene Osgood Andrews

She began her career as agent for the Associated Charities at Minneapolis, Minnesota, and, in 1906 was appointed special agent for relief work in the American Red Cross in San Francisco, and factory inspector in Wisconsin.

It's-It Ice Cream

The It's-It was invented by George Whitney, one of the original business owners when San Francisco's Playland at the Beach opened across the Great Highway from Ocean Beach.

Jacob C. Bogart

After a steady stream of people started to travel to San Francisco from Panama during the California Gold Rush, a coaling station was set up in San Diego.

Jens Haaning

During the last couple of years Haaning has had solo exhibitions at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, IAC Institut d'art Contemporain, Villeurbanne; Goodwater Gallery, Toronto; and Wiener Secession, Vienna.

John Hays Hammond

In May 1926, an organization called "The Company of Friends of John Hays Hammond" sponsored eleven dinners around the world (Manhattan, San Francisco, London, Paris, Tokyo, Manila, etc.) in honor of Hammond.

John Vance Cheney

In 1887 he assumed the position of librarian of the Free Public Library of San Francisco, where he oversaw the openings of the system's first branch libraries and hosted the first west coast conference of the American Library Association in 1891.

Jonathan Cullen

Alongside his acting career, Cullen has also worked as a director and as a teacher at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, the American Conservatory Theater School (San Francisco) and the British American Drama Academy (London).

Kung Phooey

He travels to British Columbia (actually filmed in San Francisco, poking fun at movies like Rumble in the Bronx that disguise BC locations to look like US cities), and, with a new band of friends, tries to retrieve the stolen artifact.

Leonard Miall

He took charge of broadcasts in German until 1942, when was seconded to the Political Warfare Executive and sent to work on psychological warfare in New York and San Francisco.

Lisa Law

She carried her camera wherever she went, to the Human Be-In and the anti-Vietnam march in San Francisco, Monterey Pop Festival, and meetings of The Diggers.

Live at the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco

Live at the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco is a live album by Avail recorded during a show at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco in 1997.

Out of the Vein

Out of the Vein was recorded at the group's own Mourning Wood Studios in downtown San Francisco and at Skywalker Sound.

Pentidotea wosnesenskii

Pentidotea wonsnesenskii is a marine isopod which lives on seaweed on rocky shores along the British Columbia and Washington coastlines, as far south as San Francisco.

Ricardo Lacsamana

His painted Pumpkin won best entry at the 1998 Annual Pumpkin Contest at the Westin Hotel & Resorts in San Francisco, California.

Rob Sperring

Robert Walter Sperring (born October 10, 1949 in San Francisco, California) was a baseball player who played for the Chicago Cubs from 1974 to 1976 and the Houston Astros in 1977.

RockLive

RockLive is headquartered in San Francisco, California and its investors include teen-star, Justin Bieber and boxing champion, Floyd Mayweather.

SARS coronavirus

Samples of the virus are being held in laboratories in New York, San Francisco, Manila, Hong Kong, and Toronto.

Scient

Scient was a San Francisco-based Internet consulting company, founded in 1997, that was one of the large American consulting firms during the dot-com bubble.

Shabby chic

The term was coined by The World of Interiors magazine in the 1980s and became extremely popular in the US in the '90s with a certain eclectic surge of decorating styles with paints and effects, notably in metropolitan cultural centres on the West Coast of America, such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, with heavy influences from Mediterranean cultures such as Provence, Tuscany and Greece.

Sucker pole

Bicycle theft is fed mainly from the fact that it generates about $350 million annually and that the risk to criminals is relatively low even compared with stealing an IPhone, a television, or a car in cities such as San Francisco and Chicago which are considered "bike friendly" cities.

Youth council

Many cities, including Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Seattle, and San Jose, California, have active youth councils that inform city government decision-making.