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99 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.

40 Days and 40 Nights

40 Days and 40 Nights was filmed on location at Potrero Hill, San Francisco, California.

A Night Full of Rain

The film was shot in San Francisco and Rome and was the director's first film with original dialogue in the English language.

Aerobie

The Aerobie's first Guinness World Record was set by Scott Zimmerman at 1,257 feet (383.1 meters) in 1986 at Fort Funston, San Francisco.

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Ancho, New Mexico

In 1906, the Ancho Brick Plant supplied several tons of bricks which were shipped by railway to San Francisco to help rebuild the city after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Andrew Jackson Bryant

Bryant and others "went so far as to lay the blame for the depression directly on Chinatown's doorstep." Mobs threatened the peace of the city, and on July 26, Bryant was compelled to call upon the Army and upon organized gangs of vigilantes to help restore order.

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.

Australian cricket team in England and the United States in 1878

They also played some other games in America and then went by train to San Francisco which they left on 28 October in the SS City of New York, arriving in Sydney on 25 November after being away for almost eight months.

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).

Boeing Monomail

A single example was constructed for evaluation by both Boeing and the US Army (under the designation Y1C-18) but no mass production ensued, and the aircraft eventually joined Boeing's fleet on the San Francisco-Chicago air mail route from July 1931.

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).

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.

Buxworth

Other members of the Clayton family followed him and eventually they settled in a valley at the foot of Mount Diablo, some 30 miles from San Francisco, California where they founded Clayton.

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.

Claire Rochester

A car enthusiast, she took part in an automobile tour from New York to San Francisco in 1917, to raise money for the war effort.

Clyde Wahrhaftig

He is also noted for his many field guides to geology of San Francisco and the Bay Area.

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.

Conquest of California

The American Marines, sailors and militia easily took over the cities and ports of northern California; within days they controlled Monterey, San Francisco, Sonoma, Sutter's Fort in Sacramento and other small towns in Northern California.

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).

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.

Denpasar

The municipality's area extent, population, and density are similar to 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.

Dunedin cable tramway system

It is significant as Dunedin was the second city in the world to adopt the cable car (the first being San Francisco).

Eisteddfod

An "International Eisteddfod" was held on July 28, 1915, in San Francisco, California, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition which drew competing choruses from around the nation, including one mixed group composed of the German members of the Metropolitan Opera Chorus from New York.

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.

Food and Nutrition Service

It administers the programs through its headquarters (HQ) in Alexandria, VA; regional offices (ROs) in San Francisco, Denver, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, and Robbinsville (NJ); and field offices throughout the US.

Fushigi Yûgi

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

Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon

He arrived in San Francisco and felt deeply disillusioned after not receiving the treatment he thought was deserved for a Count.

Gene Chen

In 1959, along with his family, Gene Chen moved to the USA and settled in San Francisco.

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

Rodiek was later arrested when travelling through San Francisco.

Gerald M. Loeb

Loeb began his career in 1921, working in the bond department of a securities firm in San Francisco.

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.

H-Gun

H-Gun Labs, officially, H-Gun Corp. (1988–2001) was a film/animation consortium which started in Chicago and expanded to include a San Francisco studio.

Harry Benjamin

Later he also practiced in San Francisco (at 450 Sutter Street) in the summer of every year.

Hopatcong, New Jersey

The construction of Interstate 80, a highway that stretches from Teaneck, New Jersey all the way across the country to San Francisco, California, triggered rapid growth in New York City's suburbs and led to Hopatcong becoming a permanent residential community.

İlknur Melis Durası

She ran Nike's Women Marathon as Turkish Peace Ambassador on behalf of children suffering from leukemia in 2011, at San Francisco.

Iloilo-Negros Air Express

Later, with flights to San Francisco, Shanghai, and India, it became the country’s first international airline service.

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.

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 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.

John B. Felton

In 1854, Felton moved to San Francisco to open a law practice with Harvard classmate, E.J. Pringle.

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.

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.

Kolisch Quartet

The Quartet continued to play concerts with replacement players for some time, but when the second violinist left to join an orchestra in San Francisco, the Quartet finally disbanded.

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.

Live at the Opera House

They became the first contemporary pop group to perform at San Francisco's Opera House.

Mac Publishing

Mac Publishing is a publishing company based in San Francisco, California, and is wholly owned by the International Data Group.

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.

Marco Tutino

Some have been performed by music institutions in other countries, notably the BBC Philharmonic, The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen Radio Symphony Orchestra, The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra.

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.

Momokomotion

After attending the San Francisco Institute Of Arts, Momoko became a member of the Bangkok-based international electroclash band Futon (as Momoko Futon), with whom she recorded three albums before her departure in 2006.

Mother Wore Tights

In turn-of-the-century Oakland, California, the teenaged Myrtle McKinley is expected to follow high school by attending a San Francisco business college.

Mrs. John Wood

Mr. and Mrs. John Wood again played Wallack's in the summer of 1857, then moved to San Francisco, California.

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.

Platinka

US spirit ratings organizations evaluated Platinka in 2012, awarding it the Best Vodka and Double Gold medal distinction at the 2012 San Francisco World Spirits Competition.

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.

Robert H. Thayer

In 1945, he was an assistant to John Foster Dulles, who became secretary of state in the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration, at the organizing conference of the United Nations at San Francisco.

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.

Samuel L. Lewis

In 1926 he collaborated with Nyogen Senzaki, a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk, in opening the first official Zen meditation hall (zendo) in San Francisco.

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.

Shimon Schwab

He was involved in the first Jewish day school for girls, Beis Yaakov, and traveled to San Francisco in the late 1940s to act as a lobbyist during the early activities of the United Nations.

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.

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.

Surf Scoter

In November, 2007, an oil spill in San Francisco harbour oiled and killed thousands of birds including many Surf Scoters.

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 South of the Slot

The title of the story refers to a location in San Francisco, which real estate speculators now call SOMA, the South of Market.

Tiernan, Oregon

The community of Tiernan was named for R. Tiernan of San Francisco, who was leasing a local sawmill.

Toby Edward Rosenthal

Moving to San Francisco with his parents in 1855, he there studied painting under Fortunato Arriola.

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.

Victor Poor

While attending electronics training at the Treasure Island Naval Base in 1952, he met his wife, Florence, in a church in San Francisco.

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.

Wayne H. Babbitt

He was also a delegate to the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco, which nominated Barry Goldwater for the presidency.

Wharf Angel

Two stokers who work on the same ship become rivals for the love of a woman who works in a saloon in the tough Barbary Coast area of San Francisco.

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.

Winchester, Oregon

Winchester was laid out in 1850 by surveyor Addison R. Flint, who was part of an Umpqua exploring expedition from San Francisco.

Wolfgang Schmidt

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

You Are My Friend

One of the famous covers of the song was from singer Sylvester, recorded in San Francisco for his live album, Living Proof.

Zandy's Bride

Zandy is unaccustomed to the ways of the world and clearly a fish out of water during a visit to San Francisco.

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.

Alice Fong Yu

Alice Fong Yu (2 March 1905 - 19 December 2000) was the first Chinese American public school teacher in California, founder of the Square and Circle Club, and a prominent leader in the San Francisco Chinatown community.

Angel D'Meza

He played from 1902 to 1908 with several teams, including Fe, Almendares, San Francisco, Azul, and Habana, .

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.

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.

Bear River Bridge

All the steel material was furnished by the American Bridge Company of San Francisco, and the constructing contractors were Shattuck & Edinger Construction Company, also of San Francisco.

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

On April 30, 1966, two days after the publication of his book, Fariña attended a book-signing ceremony at a Carmel Valley Village bookstore, the Thunderbird (to be followed the next day by another at the Discovery Bookshop in San Francisco).

Cadence Spalding

Cadence Spalding was born Jennifer Lynn Spalding in San Francisco, California to a father that read law at the University of California, Berkeley and a mother that had been a model.

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.

Charles Tersolo

Subject matter covered by this artist includes Provincetown, Boston, Paris, the Grand Canyon, Santa Fe, Monument Valley, Valley of the Gods, New York City, San Francisco, Portland, Cape Elizabeth, and Mount Desert Island, Maine, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Club Drive

Players can choose from different areas like the Old West and San Francisco.

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.

Dean G. Witter

Dean G. Witter (August 2, 1887, Wausau, Wisconsin – May 1969, San Francisco, California) was a U.S. businessman who co-founded Dean Witter & Company, which became the largest investment house on the West Coast.

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.

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.

Eliane Lima

Lima’s short films have screened in the Liverpool Biennial (UK), SFMOMA (SF), Victoria Theater (SF), Anthology Film Archives (NY), Pacific Film Archive (SF), Brazil, Cuba, Canada, and elsewhere.

Enrico Banducci

Banducci operated the hungry i nightclub in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, where he launched the careers of Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Bill Cosby, Jonathan Winters, and Barbra Streisand, and featured Woody Allen and Dick Cavett before they were well-known, as well as countless folk singers.

George Willis Kirkaldy

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

Gherasim Luca

From 1967, his reading sessions took him to places like Stockholm, Oslo, Geneva, New York City, and San Francisco.

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.

HNLMS K XIII

She made the journey alone and took a route that led by Horta, Willemstad, Mazatlán, San Francisco, Honolulu, Guam, Yap, Manila, Ambon and Burma.

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.

Jacques Vallée

Jacques Fabrice Vallée (born September 24, 1939 in Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France) is a venture capitalist, computer scientist, author, ufologist and former astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California.

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.

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.

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.

Madame Moustache

Moving from place to place, she was reported to work in Bodie, California; Deadwood, South Dakota; Fort Benton, Montana; Pioche, Nevada; Tombstone, Arizona; and San Francisco, California, among other places.

Maria Galvany

She allegedly performed only once in the United States, appearing in vaudeville in San Francisco during 1918, but she never managed to sing at New York's Metropolitan Opera House.

Masters of Harmony

Placing 4th in their first international competition in Kansas City (1989), they won gold the following year in San Francisco (1990).

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.

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.

Paul Arizin

Arizin chose to retire from the NBA rather than move with the Warriors to 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.

Salah Taher

Overall, he painted 15000 paintings and held more than 80 art fairs for his work in Egypt, Venice, New York, San Francisco, Geneva, Beirut, Kuwait and Jeddah.

Sam Coomes

He started playing in The Donner Party in San Francisco in 1983 and released two albums with them before they disbanded in 1989.

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.

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.