Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/20


 * ... that Bay Area native Robert D. San Souci was a consultant to Disney Studios when he suggested that they turn the legend of Hua Mulan (pictured) into a film, released in 1998 as Mulan?
 * ... that after moving into the Bethesda Home for Boys at age seven, current San Francisco 49er Demarcus Dobbs moved in with his high school football coach's family in 2005?
 * ... that, in 1980, U.S. presidential candidate John Anderson wrote in the San Francisco Sentinel that, if elected, he would end federal government discrimination based on sexual orientation?
 * ... that future California Court of Appeal Justice Christopher Cottle attended UC Berkeley for one day before transferring to Stanford, where he was a pre-medical student and captain of the football team?
 * ... that the opening of San Francisco's Tiffany Building included a roast pig and a lion dance for good luck?

September - December 2011