Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/61


 * ... that San Francisco-based photographer Edmund Shea worked as a printer of photographs for artists including Imogen Cunningham?
 * ... that at the 2014 US Open, CiCi Bellis (pictured) became the youngest American to win a match at the US Open since Mary Joe Fernandez at the 1986 US Open?
 * ... that Stanford University mathematics professor Maryam Mirzakhani "considers not just one billiard table, but the universe of all possible billiard tables."?
 * ... that the bar at Hotel Durant serves a bloody mary with house-made tomato juice topped off with a splash of Guinness?
 * ... that Pirates Press can create vinyl records in colors "from orange marble to translucent red; solid white to half-purple and half-green; even glitter and glow-in-the-dark."?
 * ... that the Petrified Forest (pictured) in Sonoma County has the largest petrified trees in the world?
 * ... that the BART to Oakland International Airport Automated Guideway Transit (pictured) will not utilize existing BART rolling stock, and will not be physically connected with existing BART tracks, but will have its own fleet of cable-drawn automated guideway transit vehicles?
 * ... that I Remember Mama centers around a Norwegian immigrant family in the Castro District in the early 1900s?

September 2014