Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/21


 * ... that Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland is the site of a memorial (pictured) to the victims of the Jonestown tragedy?
 * ... that the Healdsburg Memorial Bridge (pictured) in Healdsburg, California, was the first steel bridge across the Russian River?
 * ... that Save The Bay helped stop San Bruno Mountain from being destroyed to create landfill along 27 mi of San Francisco Bay?
 * ... that Elias Abraham Rosenberg, a peddler from San Francisco, became an adviser to King Kalākaua of Hawaii due to his purported ability to predict the future?
 * ... that Bob Wasserman served as police chief, city councilman, and mayor of the city of Fremont, California?
 * ... that Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, who later wrote The Art of Beowulf, was one of a group of University of California professors who at first refused on principle to sign the loyalty oath in 1949?

January - March 2012