Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/55


 * ... that the Alameda Works Shipyard (pictured) in Alameda, California, was one of the largest and best equipped shipyards in the United States?
 * ... that the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park is the first national tribute to home front American women?
 * ... that Nova Studios developed the "West Coast Look", a stylized and highly planned filmmaking style of gay pornography which dominated the genre through the 1980s?
 * ... that the rare Pitkin Marsh lily (pictured) is limited today to three small colonies, due to cattle overgrazing of its habitat and the flower's popularity with humans?
 * ... that although a response to the 1885 Endicott Board recommendations for the coastal defense of San Francisco, the batteries at Fort Miley were not completed until 1902?

April 2007