Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/49


 * ... that in 1993, police officer Bob Geary launched a successful ballot initiative in San Francisco, California to allow him to carry a ventriloquist's dummy on patrol?
 * ... that agribusiness executive Daron Joffe used to teach horticulture and farming to incarcerated teenagers in the San Francisco area?
 * ... that Halloween in the Castro (bus sign pictured), San Francisco's gay village, started as a children's costume contest in 1948 and was attended by 500,000 people in 2002?
 * ... that former Major League Baseball pitcher Juan Marichal made ten Opening Day starts for the San Francisco Giants between 1962 and 1973?
 * ... that Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz (pictured) studied economics at Harvard University for two years before moving to Palo Alto, California to work on Facebook full-time?

August - October 2008