Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/24


 * ... that the graffiti that has been removed from San Francisco's Vaillancourt Fountain includes slogans painted on it by its sculptor (pictured)?
 * ... that Douce noir, which is known as Charbono (pictured) in California and Bonarda in Argentina, has been called both a "cult wine" and "the Rodney Dangerfield of wine"?
 * ... that When the Game Stands Tall is an upcoming film about the De La Salle High School 151-game high school football winning streak?
 * ... that in August 1975, almost the entire San Francisco Police Department staged a strike as the city refused a pay increase for them?
 * ... that Gavin Arthur, grandson of United States President Chester A. Arthur, worked as an astrologer and sexologist in San Francisco in the 1960s?

May/June 2013