Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/43


 * ... that The Californian (pictured), California's first newspaper, appeared first in August 1846 on large sheets of cigarette paper, with English on one side and Spanish on the other?
 * ... that "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was one of the stories Mark Twain published in the San Francisco weekly literary newspaper The Californian?
 * ... that Anton Roman's literary magazine The Californian, published in 1880, was a continuation of his earlier Overland Monthly?

August 2009