Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/13


 * ... that when San Francisco–based photographer William Rulofson (pictured) fell to his death, he was heard to have exclaimed, "I am killed"?
 * ... that the San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway was San Francisco's first electric streetcar company?
 * ... that the adobe house that is the centerpiece of the Alviso Adobe Community Park (pictured) in Pleasanton, California, was built in 1854 and continuously in use until 1969?
 * ... that years after Adolph Spreckels shot M. H. de Young, the California Palace of the Legion of Honor (which he donated) and the De Young Museum merged to form the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco?
 * ... that the city of San Francisco contributed a large proportion of the funds for constructing the extension of Junipero Serra Boulevard beyond the city limits?

January 2008