Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/63


 * ... that the Pacific Gas and Electric Company General Office Building and Annex (pictured, left), is a Beaux-Arts building designed by the Bakewell & Brown architecture firm?
 * ... that the Matson Building (pictured, right), built in 1922-24, was the headquarters of the Matson Navigation Company, then the largest shipping and transportation company between the West Coast and Hawaii?
 * ... that Dr. Mervyn Silverman, as San Francisco Director of Health, on October 9, 1984, ordered 14 bathhouses and sex clubs to close immediately, saying they were '"fostering disease and death" by allowing indiscriminate sexual contacts that could spread AIDS?
 * ... that Gold Rush-era pioneer George Treat was the first person to import angora goats to California?
 * ... that Ecocity Builders, in 1994, removed the Codornices Creek water channel from its cement culvert along the Albany/Berkeley border and created a mile-long park?
 * ... that the landscape painter Willis E. Davis was informed over the phone of his daughter's elopement?

November 2014