Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/1

2004
 * ... that Bodega Bay (pictured) in California was the setting for Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds?
 * ... that the music of the Pointer Sisters combined jazz, scat and be-bop?
 * ... that American Zoetrope was originally housed in a warehouse in San Francisco in 1969?
 * ... that California's Russian River (Pacific Ocean estuary pictured) is named for the Russian trappers who explored it in the early 19th century?
 * ... that a pencil sharpener, frequently found in the San Francisco Bay Area, "is a device for sharpening a pencil's point by shaving the end of the pencil"? Well, all right, you probably did.