Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/37


 * ... that a 36-cell jail is located on the twelfth floor of the Oakland, California City Hall (pictured)?
 * ... that Frank Kanning Mott was a messenger for Western Union, a telephone operator, a hardware business owner and a city councilman before he was elected mayor of Oakland, California in 1905?
 * ... that the sculptor Emile Norman's largest and most famous work is a four-story high endomosaic window in the lobby of the Masonic Memorial Temple in San Francisco?
 * ... that the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco houses one of the world's most comprehensive libraries of academic sexological and erotological resources?

October 2009