Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/68


 * ... that more than 1,400 people have committed suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge since it was built in 1937? (crisis hotline sign pictured)
 * ... that actress Mai Tai Sing once waitressed at the Forbidden City nightclub in San Francisco?
 * ... that during the 1950 U.S. Navy secret experiment Operation Sea-Spray, Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria were sprayed over the Bay Area?
 * ... that landscape architect Mai Kitazawa Arbegast (pictured) played a key role in the gift of Blake Garden to UC Berkeley?
 * ... that the Oakland Municipal Garage and Repair Shop was established in 1913 for the maintenance and repair of all municipal automobiles?
 * ... that the Tesla Model S manufacturing process (pictured) at the Fremont Tesla Factory uses more than 160 specialist robots?
 * ... that the octagonal $50 piece of the Panama-Pacific commemorative coin issue (pictured) is the only U.S. coin that is not round?

April 2015