Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/54


 * ... that Jane Baker, a former cooking show host and community organizer, became the first female Mayor of San Mateo, California?
 * ... that Indonesian sociologist Mely G. Tan participated in student protests at the University of California, Berkeley until warned that she could be deported?
 * ... that the houseboat Vallejo (pictured), made an icon of Bay Area culture by artist Jean Varda and philosopher Alan Watts in the 1960s, originally served as a passenger ferry in Portland, Oregon in the 1870s?

July/August 2011