Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/23


 * ... that the James Dalessandro's 2004 novel 1906 was based upon the 1998 screenplay he wrote about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake for a film by the same name?
 * ... that California Hall (pictured) is one of the original "classical core" Beaux-Arts-style Classical Revival buildings on the UC Berkeley campus?
 * ... that the Petaluma Historical Library and Museum includes Miwok items?
 * ... that botanist Sara Plummer Lemmon authored the legislation to make the golden poppy the state flower of California?
 * ... that Terry Francois was the first African American member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors?
 * ... that two men and a dog died during the 1909 Portola Road Race (pictured) in Oakland, California?
 * ... that poet Ishmael Reed learned to play jazz piano at the Jazzschool beginning when he was 60?

July - September 2012