Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/16


 * ... that after a painted garage door was destroyed, the Precita Eyes muralists salvaged it and merged it into a new one, said to be one of their most beautiful in San Francisco?
 * ... that the San Francisco Bay Area will have a new direct rail to ferry connection when the Hercules intermodal rail station and WETA ferry terminal is constructed?
 * ... that San Francisco indie rock band LoveLikeFire formed as a result of a Craigslist classified advertisement?
 * ... that Thomas Kimmwood Peters was the only newsreel photographer to film the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906?
 * ... that San Francisco's 1873 Pigtail Ordinance was deemed unconstitutional because it discriminated against Chinese immigrants?
 * ... that Temple Sinai, a Reform synagogue in Oakland, California, grew out of Oakland's Hebrew Benevolent Society in 1875?
 * ... that 29 percent of the population of Birds Landing, California can speak Spanish?

July 2008