query: what are the best hotels to stay in san francisco?

title: Palace Hotel, San Francisco

text: Best Historic Hotel in the over 400 guest room category by Historic Hotels of America, an initiative of the U.S. National Trust for Historic Preservation. Palace Hotel, San Francisco The Palace Hotel is a landmark historic hotel in San Francisco, California, located at the southwest corner of Market and New Montgomery streets. The hotel is also referred to as the "New" Palace Hotel to distinguish it from the original 1875 Palace Hotel, which had been demolished after being gutted by the fire caused by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The present structure opened on December 19, 1909, on the same

title: Stay What You Are

text: By March 2002, the album had sold over 120,000 copies, becoming one of Vagrant's best-selling releases. "Stay What You Are" reached number 100 on the "Billboard" 200 albums chart. In the years since its release, "Stay What You Are" is widely regarded as a classic and a highly influential piece of music for the emo and pop punk genres. "NME" listed the album as one of "20 Emo Albums That Have Resolutely Stood The Test Of Time". Similarly, "Houston Press" included the listed the album as one of the best emo albums of 2001–2005. "Paste" included the video for "At

title: Stay What You Are

text: Your Funeral" at number seven of their 10 Best Emo Music Videos list. Tim Landers of Transit and Brandon McMaster of The Crimson Armada featured the album on their Five Albums That Changed My Life lists. Saves the Day played the album in full at FYF Fest in August 2016. All songs written by Bryan Newman, Chris Conley, David Soloway, Eben D'Amico and Ted Alexander. Personnel per sleeve. Saves the Day Additional musician Production Citations Sources Stay What You Are Stay What You Are is the third studio album from American rock band Saves the Day, released in 2001. While

title: South San Francisco, California

text: park is called Centennial Way to commemorate the City's 100th birthday in 2008. Airport Blvd. is home to several airport hotels such as Four Points and Best Western, as well as the South San Francisco Conference Center ( ()). Within 2 miles of the airport, many visitors come to stay while in transit or while attending conventions. Despite several dining options such as Denny's and IHOP are within walking distance of the hotels, but the cityscape here is particularly bleak, with no trees or other adornment to the street. The lack of crosswalks and otheer elements of complete streets, makes

title: San Francisco, Agusan del Sur

text: presence of malls, hotels, health institutions, inland resorts, colleges, private/public national, provincial and local offices, restaurants, banks, communication and transportation facilities makes San Francisco the training convention center of the province and a favored place for visitors to stay. Mount Magdiwata adds ambiance to the area. List of public and private educational institutions: San Francisco, Agusan del Sur ', officially the ', (; ), is a in the province of , . According to the , it has a population of people. In 2013, San Francisco topped first as the "Most Competitive Municipality in the Philippines" according to the National

title: Stay What You Are

text: Stay What You Are Stay What You Are is the third studio album from American rock band Saves the Day, released in 2001. While on tour, in March 2000, the band got into a van accident that almost ended the band's career. The van accident was somewhat of an inspiration for the band's song writing. By this point, vocalist Chris Conley "really felt confident" and subsequently had "a lot more fun" while writing. Conley had a personal recording studio set-up where he would "spend the entire day" in "building songs in my own little world." In April, it was announced

title: San Francisco Marriott Marquis

text: proofing than several nearby hotels, the building only lost a single window. The San Francisco Marriott Marquis is one of eight Marriott International hotels in the city along with Courtyard San Francisco Downtown, Courtyard San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco Marriott Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco Marriott Union Square, JW Marriott San Francisco Union Square, Hotel Adagio, and the Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco. Local newspaper columnist Herb Caen complained that reflections from the hotel's windows blinded him in his office at the nearby Chronicle building, and compared its shape to that of a jukebox. Jimmy Fallon, on the July 25, 2011 episode

title: Fairmont San Francisco

text: Fairmont San Francisco The Fairmont San Francisco is an AAA Four-Diamond luxury hotel at 950 Mason Street, atop Nob Hill in San Francisco, California. The hotel was named after mining magnate and U.S. Senator James Graham Fair (1831–94), by his daughters, Theresa Fair Oelrichs and Virginia Fair Vanderbilt, who built the hotel in his honor. The hotel was the vanguard of the Fairmont Hotels and Resorts chain. The group is now owned by Fairmont Raffles Hotels International, but all the original Fairmont hotels still keep their names. As of July 2014, room rates begin at $409 per night. It has

title: Homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area

text: in the 2015 survey commissioned by the City of San Francisco include job loss (25%), alcohol/drug use (18%), eviction (13%), argument/asked to leave by friend/family (12%), and divorce/separation (11%). Reasons for coming from outside San Francisco at the time of homelessness include seeking a job (25%), LGBTQ acceptance (11%), to access homeless services (22%), was visiting and decided to stay (17%), accessing VA services or clinic (5%), and family/friends are here (13%). Into the 20th century, the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a devastating epidemic of poverty, hunger, and homelessness, particularly in industry-dependent cities, such as San Francisco. Two

title: South San Francisco, California

text: has a park and marina along the shore of San Francisco Bay, named Oyster Point, which is also home to the private Oyster Point Yacht Club. South San Francisco has walkways and bike trails adjacent to the San Francisco Bay, from which runners are able to view San Francisco International Airport operations, while wind-surfers and kayakers may launch their watercraft. South San Francisco is home to many hotels as well, since it is close to San Francisco and actually directly next to SFO. A unique opportunity was created when BART expanded down the Peninsula to create a "linear park" on

title: InterContinental San Francisco

text: amenities include a fitness center, an indoor lap pool, Jacuzzi, a business center, and pets are allowed with fee and weight restriction in some rooms. The conference center contains two large ballrooms, an executive board room and 21 meeting rooms. InterContinental San Francisco The InterContinental San Francisco is a high-rise hotel at 888 Howard Street in the South of Market district of San Francisco, California. The 32-story hotel has 550 hotel rooms, and is operated by the InterContinental Hotels Group. The hotel is next to the Moscone West Center, completed in 2003. The hotel opened on February 28, 2008. There

title: Loews Regency San Francisco

text: Loews Regency San Francisco Loews Regency San Francisco, formerly the Mandarin Oriental, San Francisco, is a luxury hotel that occupies the top 11 floors of 48 story office tower of 345 California Center at 222 Sansome Street in the financial district of San Francisco, California. Initially planned as condominiums, the twin towers of hotel were situated at 45-degree angles relative to the rest of the building with several glass skybridges that offer views of the San Francisco Bay Area. In February 2015, the hotel was sold to Loews Hotels and renamed the Loews Regency San Francisco. As of February 2015

title: Stay What You Are

text: and featured more intricate guitar work and arrangements. "Cars & Calories" talks about celebrity culture. Conley explained that he was "felt sort of mildly alienated at different points in my life just looking at culture, especially this hectic, modern culture." Conley wrote the song in an empty room at Vagrant Records' offices. He played open chords, and the rest of the song soon followed. "As Your Ghost Takes Flight" is about a friend's heroin addiction. In late June 2001, the group performed a few shows in Japan. "Stay What You Are" was released on July 10 through Vagrant Records. The

title: San Francisco

text: at the time. Around 1901, San Francisco was a major city known for its flamboyant style, stately hotels, ostentatious mansions on Nob Hill, and a thriving arts scene. The first North American plague epidemic was the San Francisco plague of 1900–1904. At 5:12 am on April 18, 1906, a major earthquake struck San Francisco and northern California. As buildings collapsed from the shaking, ruptured gas lines ignited fires that spread across the city and burned out of control for several days. With water mains out of service, the Presidio Artillery Corps attempted to contain the inferno by dynamiting blocks of

title: Peoples Temple in San Francisco

text: In October 1978, a crippling blow occurred when San Francisco Temple leader Terry Buford defected, though she wrote a series of notes falsely claiming that she was going "under cover", as a "double agent" to infiltrate "Timothy Stoen's group." Buford had secretly gone to stay with Temple attorney Mark Lane, whom she had met during interactions in the San Francisco headquarters. While most influential allies broke ties with the Temple following Jones' departure after increasing media scrutiny, some did not. For example, Willie Brown stated that the attacks were "a measure of the church’s effectiveness." San Francisco columnist Herb Caen

title: India Basin, San Francisco

text: Company, which docked there in the 19th century. A more creative explanation has it that it was so named because water from nearby springs would stay fresh until a ship reached India. The area has a strong community and many people are members of the India Basin Neighborhood Association (IBNA). The India Basin Shoreline Park (India Basin) Natural Area is located adjacent to Hunters Point Boulevard in San Francisco, at the shore of San Francisco Bay. India Basin is the only Natural Area within the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department (SFRPD) system that borders on San Francisco Bay. The

title: Are Years What? (for Marianne Moore)

text: mind. It is a gift to the city and all who visit." "Are Years What?" is considered by some to be di Suvero's "breakthrough work." Are Years What? (for Marianne Moore) Are Years What? (for Marianne Moore) is a sculpture by American artist Mark di Suvero. It is in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, in Washington, D.C., United States. The sculpture is named after poet Marianne Moore's "What Are Years". From May 22, 2013 through May 26, 2014, the sculpture resided temporarily in San Francisco, as part of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Mark

title: InterContinental San Francisco

text: InterContinental San Francisco The InterContinental San Francisco is a high-rise hotel at 888 Howard Street in the South of Market district of San Francisco, California. The 32-story hotel has 550 hotel rooms, and is operated by the InterContinental Hotels Group. The hotel is next to the Moscone West Center, completed in 2003. The hotel opened on February 28, 2008. There is a two-level underground garage and a six-floor podium housing hotel amenities. The hotel was designed by Patri Merker Architects, and Hornberger + Worstell with Webcor Builders as primary contractors and with Architectural Glass and Aluminum serving as the Glazing

title: Hotel Nikko San Francisco

text: Hotel Nikko San Francisco Hotel Nikko San Francisco is a high-rise hotel at 222 Mason Street near Union Square, San Francisco, California. The 28-story hotel has 532 hotel rooms, and is owned by DATAM, LLC. and operated by Nikko Hotels. The hotel is one block away from Union Square, San Francisco and five blocks from the Moscone Center. The hotel opened in October 1987. The hotel was designed by AMTAD, Inc. and Whisler- Patri Architects and built by Takenaka. It underwent a $60 million renovation commemorating from December 2016 to March 2017, during which time the hotel was closed. The

title: San Francisco values

text: for San Francisco values. San Francisco values "San Francisco values" is a term often used pejoratively and as an "ad hominem" phrase to refer to cultural, social and moral attributes associated with the city of San Francisco, California's liberal politics and pluralist culture. Often values and expressions that are less popular among social conservatives, such as LGBT equality, the anti-war movement, or secular values generally, are invoked by users to frame their argument. The same values form the foundation of what is known as West Coast liberalism, though the political cultures of Los Angeles (and notably Hollywood therein), Seattle, et

title: South Park, San Francisco

text: (a total of 58 residences) on a 550-foot oval around a private grassy park. It featured the first paved streets and sidewalks in San Francisco. A windmill in the center of the park pumped water for the houses. From the late 19th to the early 20th century, South Park was also the center of one of San Francisco's largest Japanese American communities. Sandwiched between the waterfront and the South Pacific Railroad terminus, the area featured Japanese owned and operated hostels, hotels, baths, and shops. Many of the structures remain: the Madrid Hotel occupies what once was the Eimoto Hotel at

title: Nob Hill, San Francisco

text: Nob Hill, San Francisco Nob Hill is an affluent neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Known for its numerous luxury hotels and historic mansions, Nob Hill has historically served as a center of San Francisco's upper class. Nob Hill is among the highest-income neighborhoods in the United States, as well as one of the most desirable and expensive real estate markets in the country. Nob Hill is a prestigious luxury destination in San Francisco, owing to its numerous Michelin-starred restaurants, boutiques, prestigious cultural institutions, art galleries, and historic landmarks. The neighborhood is named after one of San Francisco's original "Seven Hills".

title: Media in the San Francisco Bay Area

text: influential weeklies. The dailies were the "San Francisco Call" (later "Call-Bulletin"), the "San Francisco Examiner", the "San Francisco Chronicle" and the Scripps-Howard-owned "Daily News". The weeklies included the "Wasp", the "Argonaut", the "Labor Clarion", the "Coast Seamen's Journal", "Emanu-el", "Liberator" and the "News Letter". Today, several newspapers, covering community, regional, national, and international news, and community-specific papers, catering to niche markets and individual neighborhoods, are in circulation in the San Francisco Bay Area. The major English-language newspapers include the daily "East Bay Times", "San Francisco Chronicle", "San Francisco Examiner", and "San Jose Mercury News". The weekly alternative papers are the

title: San Francisco in the 1970s

text: but also rock music and disco thrived in the city in the 1970s, and from the late 1970s onwards San Francisco also became a major focal point in the North American and international punk, thrash metal, and rave scenes. In 1967, thousands of young people had entered the Haight-Ashbury district during what became known as the Summer of Love. The San Francisco Sound emerged as an influential force in rock music, with such acts as Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead achieving international prominence. These groups blurred the boundaries between folk, rock and jazz traditions and further developed rock's lyrical

title: Castro District, San Francisco

text: was established in the Castro District of San Francisco in 1882. Soon after, two "Finnish Halls" were erected nearby. One was located at the corner of 24th Street and Hoffman Street. The other hall was located on Flint Street, on the "Rocky Hill" above Castro, an area densely populated by Finns at the time, consequently nicknamed "Finn Town". In 1899, the First Finnish Lutheran Church was founded on 50 Belcher Street, in what then was considered part of the "Eureka Valley" district of San Francisco, but what is located on the outskirts of what today is best known as the

title: History of San Francisco

text: of the largest concentrations outside of China. Many businesses founded to service the growing population exist today, notably Levi Strauss & Co. clothing, Ghirardelli chocolate, and Wells Fargo bank. Many famous railroad, banking, and mining tycoons or "robber barons" such as Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, Collis P. Huntington, and Leland Stanford settled in the city in its Nob Hill neighborhood. The sites of their mansions are now famous and expensive San Francisco hotels (Mark Hopkins Hotel and the Huntington Hotel). As in many mining towns, the social climate in early San Francisco was chaotic. Committees of Vigilance were formed in

title: Hearts in San Francisco

text: Hearts in San Francisco Hearts in San Francisco is an annual public art installation started in 2004 by the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation for the purpose of fundraising. The project is inspired by the international CowParade exhibit, in which cow sculptures are painted by various artists and installed in various cities throughout the world. The choice of hearts is inspired by the Tony Bennett song "I Left My Heart in San Francisco." Each year, uniform heart sculptures are painted by different artists and installed at locations throughout San Francisco, including Union Square. The heart sculptures are auctioned off at

title: The Fleet That Came to Stay

text: The Fleet That Came to Stay The Fleet That Came to Stay was a propaganda short film produced by the US Navy in 1945 about the naval engagements of the invasion of Okinawa. The film opens with the small talk of the American GIs soon after they find out where they are headed. One notes that he hears the island looks like San Francisco, while another responds that he once drove from LA to Frisco in eight hours, prompting another to boast that he once covered the 360 miles from Buffalo to New York in six. Then it dawns on

title: The Fleet That Came to Stay

title: Are Years What? (for Marianne Moore)

text: Are Years What? (for Marianne Moore) Are Years What? (for Marianne Moore) is a sculpture by American artist Mark di Suvero. It is in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, in Washington, D.C., United States. The sculpture is named after poet Marianne Moore's "What Are Years". From May 22, 2013 through May 26, 2014, the sculpture resided temporarily in San Francisco, as part of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Mark di Suvero exhibition at Crissy Field. This 10-ton sculpture is made of nine red-orange steel I-beams, welded together, with one section suspended as a giant

title: San Francisco Human Rights Commission

text: San Francisco Human Rights Commission The San Francisco Human Rights Commission (HRC) is a charter commission of the City and County of San Francisco that works to increase equality, eradicate discrimination, and to protect human rights for all people. The HRC enforces City Ordinances and policies on nondiscrimination and promotes social and economic progress for all. In 1963, the modern day civil rights movement manifested in San Francisco through demonstrations against hotels, supermarkets, drive-in restaurants, automobile showrooms and automobile repair shops which were discriminating against African Americans. In early 1964, Mayor John Shelley appointed an Interim Committee on Human Relations,

title: San Francisco Human Rights Commission

text: be found on the HRC's website. A snapshot of these issues include: Bisexual Invisibility: Impacts and Recommendations (March 2011) San Francisco Human Rights Commission The San Francisco Human Rights Commission (HRC) is a charter commission of the City and County of San Francisco that works to increase equality, eradicate discrimination, and to protect human rights for all people. The HRC enforces City Ordinances and policies on nondiscrimination and promotes social and economic progress for all. In 1963, the modern day civil rights movement manifested in San Francisco through demonstrations against hotels, supermarkets, drive-in restaurants, automobile showrooms and automobile repair shops

title: Trolleybuses in San Francisco

text: world, specifically 22.8% in the block of Noe Street between Cesar Chavez Street and 26th Street on route 24-Divisadero, and several other sections of Muni trolley bus routes are among the world's steepest. Trolleybuses in San Francisco The San Francisco trolleybus system forms part of the public transportation network serving San Francisco, in the state of California, United States. Opened on October 6, 1935, it presently comprises 15 lines, and is operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway, commonly known as "Muni" (or the Muni), with around 300 trolleybuses. In San Francisco, these vehicles are also known as "trolley coaches",

title: San Francisco in the 1970s

text: the remaining 15 people from the island, forcibly ending a 19-month occupation. In 1970, Alex de Renzy of San Francisco produced a documentary, "Pornography in Denmark: A New Approach", about the red light district of Copenhagen. The film, which grossed $2 million on a $15,000 budget, resulted in a well-documented court case, in which the judge ruled that it was "in keeping with the Supreme Court edict that draws the line between what constitutes free speech and what constitutes obscenity." As a result, some open-minded San Franciscans became filmmakers and porn merchants, with the likes of the Mitchell brothers and

title: San Francisco values

text: San Francisco values "San Francisco values" is a term often used pejoratively and as an "ad hominem" phrase to refer to cultural, social and moral attributes associated with the city of San Francisco, California's liberal politics and pluralist culture. Often values and expressions that are less popular among social conservatives, such as LGBT equality, the anti-war movement, or secular values generally, are invoked by users to frame their argument. The same values form the foundation of what is known as West Coast liberalism, though the political cultures of Los Angeles (and notably Hollywood therein), Seattle, et cetera also contribute to

title: 2018 Marriott Hotels Strike

text: and Lahaina. 2018 Marriott Hotels Strike The 2018 Marriot Hotels Strike was a strike of more than 8,000 workers nationwide at 23 hotels operated by Marriott International in October 2018. Housekeepers, cooks, servers, dishwashers, bartenders, doormen, bellmen and concierges walked off the job as part of the Unite Here labor union. Their slogan was “One job should be enough", as a reference to the Fight for $15 Movement in the service industry where employees are demanding a living wage. The walkout began in early October and spread to 23 Marriott-operated hotels in Boston, Detroit, San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, San

title: 2018 Marriott Hotels Strike

text: 2018 Marriott Hotels Strike The 2018 Marriot Hotels Strike was a strike of more than 8,000 workers nationwide at 23 hotels operated by Marriott International in October 2018. Housekeepers, cooks, servers, dishwashers, bartenders, doormen, bellmen and concierges walked off the job as part of the Unite Here labor union. Their slogan was “One job should be enough", as a reference to the Fight for $15 Movement in the service industry where employees are demanding a living wage. The walkout began in early October and spread to 23 Marriott-operated hotels in Boston, Detroit, San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, San Diego, Honolulu

title: Culture of San Francisco

text: Francisco cable car system, the abstract San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, the ruins of the once great Sutro Baths, Chinatown, and the Transamerica Pyramid. Culture of San Francisco The culture of San Francisco is major and diverse in terms of arts, music, cuisine, festivals, museums, and architecture. San Francisco's diversity of cultures along with its eccentricities are so great that they have greatly influenced the country and the world at large over the years. In 2012, "Bloomberg Businessweek" voted San Francisco as America's Best City. The Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) contains 20th Century

title: Trolleybuses in San Francisco

text: Trolleybuses in San Francisco The San Francisco trolleybus system forms part of the public transportation network serving San Francisco, in the state of California, United States. Opened on October 6, 1935, it presently comprises 15 lines, and is operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway, commonly known as "Muni" (or the Muni), with around 300 trolleybuses. In San Francisco, these vehicles are also known as "trolley coaches", a term that was the most common name for trolleybuses in the United States in the middle decades of the 20th century. The Muni trolley bus system is complementary to the city-owned Muni

title: Gentrification of San Francisco

text: suburbs and commute into San Francisco every day. High rents in Silicon Valley and other factors have contributed to a phenomenon where many tech workers choose not to live closer to work in Silicon Valley and instead stay in San Francisco. A survey conducted by the Bay Area Council and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission has found that 35 shuttle services operate a fleet of more than 800 buses that ferry 34,000 commuters every single day around the San Francisco Metropolitan Area. Of these shuttles, over 200 of them travel exclusively between San Francisco County and Santa Clara County. In 1994,

title: Westfield San Francisco Centre

text: equity partner and along with Westfield assumed responsibility for day-to-day management.. In March 2009, it was announced that Westfield San Francisco Centre shopping center was named as one of nine finalists vying for the title of “World’s Best Shopping Center” as part of the "International Council of Shopping Centers Inc.’s" inaugural “Best of the Best” awards. In 2011, the San Francisco Police Department considered putting a substation in the mall to prevent rampant shoplifting. Notes Sources Westfield San Francisco Centre The Westfield San Francisco Centre is an upscale, urban shopping mall located in San Francisco, California, managed by the Westfield

title: Back to the Streets of San Francisco

text: Back to the Streets of San Francisco Back to the Streets of San Francisco is a 1992 American made-for-television crime drama film based on the 1972–1977 series "The Streets of San Francisco" starring Karl Malden as police detective Mike Stone and Darleen Carr as his daughter Jeannie; both are cast members of the original show. The film was directed by Mel Damski. It was broadcast on NBC on January 27, 1992. The plot involves the efforts of Mike Stone (newly promoted to Captain of Inspectors) to solve the murder of his old partner, Steve Keller. Since Keller is dead, the

title: Sports in the San Francisco Bay Area

text: both teams played against each other, and Oakland swept the Giants in a 4-game series. However, the series is probably best known for the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake which struck on the day of Game 3. San Francisco was ranked #1 in 2012 among America's Best Baseball cities. The study examined which U.S. metro areas have produced the most Major Leaguers since 1920. Oakland is home of the Golden State Warriors in the NBA, who currently play at the Oracle Arena. The Warriors originally played in Philadelphia, but relocated to San Francisco in 1962 and then to Oakland in 1971.

title: History of the Japanese in San Francisco

text: the first Japanese organization in the United States. The San Francisco Japanese School (SFJS) is a Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT)-designated weekend Japanese school serving the area. The school system, headquartered in San Francisco, rents classrooms in four schools serving a total of over 1,600 students as of 2016; two of the schools are in San Francisco and two are in the South Bay. For elementary students it operates out of the A.P. Giannini Middle School in San Francisco and The Harker School Blackford Campus in San Jose. For junior high school and high school students it operates out of

title: San Mateo Creek (San Francisco Bay Area)

text: Andrew. Palou's name was later applied to the San Andreas fault (misspelled) when the fault was discovered to be the creator of the valley. In 1776, the expedition led by Captain Juan Bautista de Anza, rather than stay on the coast as Portola had done, followed an inland route from Monterey, California established by Pedro Fages in 1770. De Anza descended the Santa Clara Valley to San Francisco Bay and followed its western shoreline up the peninsula to San Francisco. The de Anza party selected the sites for Mission San Francisco de Asís ("Mission Dolores") and the Presidio of San

title: Hearts in San Francisco

text: Liu, Kara Maria, Silvia Poloto, Precita Eyes Muralists, Rex Ray, Rigo 23, Bill Russell, Monika Steiner, Laurel True, and Eric Zener. Hearts in San Francisco Hearts in San Francisco is an annual public art installation started in 2004 by the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation for the purpose of fundraising. The project is inspired by the international CowParade exhibit, in which cow sculptures are painted by various artists and installed in various cities throughout the world. The choice of hearts is inspired by the Tony Bennett song "I Left My Heart in San Francisco." Each year, uniform heart sculptures are

title: LGBT culture in San Francisco

text: men and lesbians, with bar-sponsored teams competing against each other, as well as against the San Francisco police. The National Queer Arts Festival and Frameline, which is the largest and oldest LGBT film festival, are held in San Francisco. Harvey Milk had founded the Castro Street Fair. Other events include San Francisco Pride, the Folsom Street Fair, and Pink Saturday. The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus is based in the city. The GLBT Historical Society Museum is in the Castro District. The LGBT-centric area newspapers are the "Bay Area Reporter", "San Francisco Bay Times", and "San Francisco Sentinel". Lesbian-centric magazines

title: Fairmont San Francisco

text: been featured in many films, including "The Rock". Exterior and interior shots of the hotel were used as stand-ins for the fictional St. Gregory Hotel in the television series "Hotel". The Fairmont San Francisco was added to the National Register of Historic Places (#02000373) on 17 April 2002. It is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The hotel was nearly completed before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Although the structure survived, the interior was heavily damaged by fire, and opening was delayed until 1907. Architect and engineer Julia Morgan

title: RIU Hotels

text: countries, and employs 27,813 people. In 2014 the hotel chain hosted a total of 4 million guests. RIU Hotels & Resorts is a Spanish hotel chain founded by the Riu family as a small holiday firm in 1953, the first hotel being Riu San Francisco in Mallorca. The RIU Hotels & Resorts chain is still run by the Riu family's third generation. In 2011, RIU Hotels & Resorts launched their new line of Riu Plaza city hotels. These are located in the centre of large cities and cater for both business travellers and tourists. RIU has hotels in Spain, Portugal,

title: South San Francisco, California

text: Francisco Bay. The extreme western portions of the city near Interstate 280 sit along a hillside and offer views of San Francisco Bay. This area is known to local residents as Westborough. The southern part of the city, closest to the airport, is home to a large number of car repair shops, airport parking lots, and airport hotels. Grand Avenue, between Spruce and Airport, is zoned "Downtown Core" by the City of South San Francisco, with various small shops and restaurants. Grand Avenue is host to a plethora of stores, one of which is Bronstein Music, a well-known local music

title: The Mutants (San Francisco band)

text: The Mutants (San Francisco band) The Mutants are an important band in the history of San Francisco punk rock and new wave music. They are known for their theatrical performances which often include elaborate props, projections, and comical antics. They are credited with being one of the first "Art-punk" bands in San Francisco, and were one of the most popular bands of the San Francisco punk scene during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Mutants joined together to perform at the San Francisco Poetry Festival in 1977. They quickly became regular performers in the San Francisco punk rock scene,

title: San Francisco Golf Club

text: San Francisco Golf Club The San Francisco Golf Club is an athletic club and private social club in San Francisco, California, with a portion of the course extending into neighboring Daly City. It is one of the most exclusive private membership clubs in the United States. In Golfdigest's 2015-2016 ranking of America's best golf courses, San Francisco Golf Club secured the 35th best course. The San Francisco Golf Club was one of seven golf clubs West of the Allegheny Mountains when it was founded in 1885. It had its beginning at the Presidio of San Francisco as a nine-hole course.

title: San Francisco in the 1970s

text: the 21st century with the creation of the Exotic Erotic Ball in 1979. The San Francisco Bay Area continued to be a leading academic centre in the 1970s, centred around the major universities of Stanford University and Berkeley. In May 1972, for instance, the first demonstration of acupuncture in San Francisco was held at Stanford which attracted some 1,400 physicians. The 1970s also brought other major changes to the city such as the construction of its first subway system, BART, which connected San Francisco with other cities in the Bay Area. At stations in downtown San Francisco, BART connects with

title: Team San Francisco

text: New York City (1994), Gay Games V in Amsterdam (1998), Gay Games VI in Sydney (2002) and Gay Games VII in Chicago (2006). Plans are under way to send athletes to the Cologne 2010 Gay Games VIII: . Team SF promotes athletic participation at all levels in the spirit of the Gay Games—participation, inclusion, and the pursuit of one's personal best. Team San Francisco Team San Francisco (Team SF) was formed in 1987 in preparation for Gay Games III, held in 1990. This would mark the first time that the Games were held outside of San Francisco, in Vancouver, British

title: Media in the San Francisco Bay Area

text: of Al Jazeera Media Network, is also based in the city. As the home of Silicon Valley, several high technology companies involved with Internet media or social media are either headquartered or have a significant presence in the Bay Area. These include the following: Media in the San Francisco Bay Area The media in the San Francisco Bay Area has historically focused on San Francisco but also includes two other major media centers, Oakland and San Jose. The Federal Communications Commission, Nielsen Media Research, and other similar media organizations treat the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose Bay Area as one entire media

title: San Francisco

text: drew many people, especially African Americans from the South, to the area. After the end of the war, many military personnel returning from service abroad and civilians who had originally come to work decided to stay. The United Nations Charter creating the United Nations was drafted and signed in San Francisco in 1945 and, in 1951, the Treaty of San Francisco officially ended the war with Japan. Urban planning projects in the 1950s and 1960s involved widespread destruction and redevelopment of west-side neighborhoods and the construction of new freeways, of which only a series of short segments were built before

title: San Francisco in the 1970s

text: world. San Francisco also saw a series of racially motivated murders during this time with the Zebra Killings. In 1974, the education system came under scrutiny with public outcries for improvements. City newspapers ran headlines such as "Angry San Francisco Parents Ask State for Help", "Angy Board Members Talk: Why Schools Don't Improve", "School Costs Rose as Enrollment Fell", "San Francisco Staff Still Outnumbers Teachers", and "Board of Education Exempts Many Bilingual Students from School Bus Program". Subsequently, a commission was appointed to study the city's educational problems, which was considered akin to declaring the San Francisco Unified School District

title: The Falcon in San Francisco

text: for a vacation in San Francisco, Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), a.k.a. The Falcon, meets Annie Marshall (Sharyn Moffett), a lonely little girl. Annie tells them that she is being held prisoner by her nurse, Miss Carla Keyes (Hermine Sterler), and butler Loomis (Jason Robards Sr.). Annie's story is cut short when Miss Keyes comes for her. Shortly after, the little girl rushes back to Tom to tell him her nurse is dead. Tom and Goldie take charge of Annie but police are notified that the little girl was kidnapped. When the train arrives in San Francisco, the police are waiting

title: Nob Hill, San Francisco

text: fountains. Washington & Hyde Mini Park is situated on a single lot between two apartment buildings on the north side of Washington Street, between Hyde Street and Leavenworth Street. Washington & Hyde Mini Park has a playground for children, landscaping, and public restrooms. Nob Hill, San Francisco Nob Hill is an affluent neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Known for its numerous luxury hotels and historic mansions, Nob Hill has historically served as a center of San Francisco's upper class. Nob Hill is among the highest-income neighborhoods in the United States, as well as one of the most desirable and expensive

title: Cycling in San Francisco

text: Cycling in San Francisco Cycling in San Francisco has grown in popularity in recent years, aided by improving cycling infrastructure and community support. San Francisco's compact urban form and mild climate enable cyclists to reach work, shopping, and recreational destinations quickly and comfortably. Though San Francisco's famed steep hills can make cycling difficult, many parts of the city are relatively flat, including some of the most densely populated. However, heavy automobile traffic, the lack of bike lanes on many streets, and difficulty in crossing major streets deter most residents from cycling frequently in San Francisco. The 1848 California Gold Rush

title: Warwick Hotels and Resorts

text: Warwick San Francisco hotel was opened in San Francisco, California, marking the beginning of a decade of robust growth. Growth in the company was driven by a significant new direction for WHR internationally also, with the introduction of an Affiliate Hotel Program. Like WHR, many of these hotels are also family run. Momentum continued during the 2000s for WHR, which marked WHR's entry into the Middle East and African market and its first foray into management contract agreements. As of October 2014, WHR manages nine hotels in the Middle East and Asia, including Dubai and Baghdad, Jordan and Lebanon, and

title: San Francisco Bay Guardian

text: mid-June 2013, "San Francisco Business Times" and other publications reported that Tim Redmond had "been ousted" as publisher and editor. The "Bay Guardian" issued a statement quoting new publisher Stephen Buel as saying, "The "Guardian" has been losing money, and we were forced to contemplate some editorial layoffs. Tim decided to resign rather than follow through with what we were discussing." However, Redmond denied resigning. On October 14, 2014, publisher Glenn Zuehls announced that the San Francisco Media Co., which also owns "SF Weekly", had decided to close the publication. The 40th annual Best of the Bay issue, published on

title: San Francisco in the 1970s

text: San Francisco continued to contribute significantly to San Francisco in the 1970s. The black population of San Francisco peaked in the early 1970s; in 1972 one in seven citizens was black. Many African-American residents still lived in the Fillmore district, which had given birth to a thriving jazz scene and been called the Harlem of the West in the 50s and 60s. However, urban redevelopment began to push blacks out of the Fillmore in the late 1960s; by 1980 San Francisco's black population had decreased by 10%. Some Japanese-Americans had returned to the Fillmore after their internment during World War

title: San Francisco in the 1970s

text: 1971, protesters demonstrated against the Vietnam War which led to violent clashes with the police, leading to some 100 arrests. Some 150,000 marchers turned out at the anti-war protests in San Francisco. In 1971, the murder of police officer Sgt. John V. Young in San Francisco led to the arrests and indictments of several former Black Panther Party members. The unsolved murders of the Zodiac Killer continued to mystify San Franciscans as the killer repeatedly send taunting messages to the San Francisco Chronicle taking credit for various Northern California killings through 1970 and 1971. The black and Asian population of

title: Cycling in San Francisco

text: Golden Gate Park. It features live music and circus and vaudeville-type acts. Profits from beer sales at the event are donated to the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and the Bay Area Ridge Trail Council. The event is not unique to San Francisco, but in 2010 also took place in Chicago, Milwaukee, Seattle, Portland, Boise, Fort Collins, Denver, San Diego, Tempe, Los Angeles, and Austin. Winterfest, held in December of each year, is the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition's main fund-raising event. This "festive evening to celebrate the love of riding a bike" is attended by SFBC members, bicycle industry leaders, local

title: San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)

text: is now homesick for Massachusetts. The song was featured in the final story scene of the 2016 game "Watch Dogs 2". 2 successive missions in , namely "Are You Going To San Fierro?" and "Wear Flowers in Your Hair" are inspired by the song. French singer Johnny Hallyday recorded the song in French, with the title "San Francisco". His version reached number five in Wallonia (French Belgium) in 1967. 7" single Philips B 370.454 F (1967) 7" EP Philips 437.380 BE (1967) Notes Bibliography San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear

title: San Francisco Peninsula

text: blue butterfly and the San Bruno elfin butterfly, all of which are endemic to San Mateo County. The endangered California clapper rail is also found on the shores of San Francisco Bay, in the cities of Belmont and San Mateo. A number of noteworthy parks and nature preserves are found on the San Francisco Peninsula, including: There are a number of well-known structures and complexes on the San Francisco Peninsula: San Francisco Peninsula The San Francisco Peninsula is a peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area that separates San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. On its northern tip is

title: Sports in the San Francisco Bay Area

text: PDL since 2016. In 2015, the Sharks American Hockey League affiliate team, the Worcester Sharks, became the San Jose Barracuda and share the SAP Center at San Jose. San Francisco Pro-Am Basketball League is an important summer league venue for aspiring players to be discovered by talent scouts. Games are held at the 4,000 seat Kezar Pavilion. Players from all levels participate, with regular appearances by off season NBA professionals. San Francisco Rush played in the inaugural 2016 PRO Rugby season at Boxer Stadium. The club folded after one season. The San Francisco Golden Gate Rugby team competes in the

title: Transportation in the San Francisco Bay Area

text: Nevada. San Francisco riders can choose from three routes (SF-San Jose-LA, SF-Oakland-LA, & SF-Sacramento-Reno). The San Francisco stop is located in front of the Caltrain Station. Other intercity bus services include California Shuttle Bus, Hoang Transportation, and USAsia. There are several bus stations in the San Francisco Bay Area including Fairfield Transportation Center, Richmond Parkway Transit Center, Naglee Park and Ride, Hercules Transit Center, Curtola Park & Ride, Eastmont Transit Center, San Rafael Transit Center and many bus bays at BART stations. Other transit agencies that serve parts of the Bay Area include San Benito Transit, Stanislaus Regional Transit, San

title: Social nudity in San Francisco

text: of San Francisco, was the first official nude beach in America in 1967. The San Francisco Bay Guardian published a clothing optional beach guide to California annually. Within San Francisco city limits are three clothing optional beaches: In 2010, Rebar, which creates parks out of public spaces, created a park/plaza in the Castro District at 17th/Market/Castro. It was named "Jane Warner Plaza", after the policewoman who used to patrol the Castro. Activists for social nudity began congregating there, resulting in complaints to the police. There are many long-time established clothing optional events in San Francisco including: Some of the activists

title: Ferries of San Francisco Bay

text: Jack London Square is today, fronting on what is today called the Oakland Estuary, an inlet of San Francisco Bay. The estuary, which in the 1800s included what is today's Lake Merritt, was the "creek". In 1851, Captain Thomas Gray, grandfather of the famous dancer Isadora Duncan, began the first regular ferry service to San Francisco from the East Bay. The first railroad ferries on San Francisco Bay were established by the San Francisco and Oakland Railroad and the San Francisco and Alameda Railroad (SF&A) which were taken over by the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) in 1870 to become an

title: Huntington Hotel (San Francisco)

text: originally designed by Weeks and Day as the Huntington Apartments in 1922, and was converted to a hotel by real estate developer Eugene Fritz, who bought the property in 1924. Fritz' grandchildren ran the hotel until selling it in 2011 to Singapore-based Grace International. The hotel closed on January 4, 2014 and reopened in May 2014 as The Scarlet Huntington, following a $15 million renovation. Huntington Hotel (San Francisco) The Scarlet Huntington Hotel is one of the landmark luxury hotels at the top of the Nob Hill district of San Francisco, California. It is located at 1075 California Street, cross

title: Culture of San Francisco

text: Culture of San Francisco The culture of San Francisco is major and diverse in terms of arts, music, cuisine, festivals, museums, and architecture. San Francisco's diversity of cultures along with its eccentricities are so great that they have greatly influenced the country and the world at large over the years. In 2012, "Bloomberg Businessweek" voted San Francisco as America's Best City. The Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) contains 20th Century and contemporary pieces. It moved to its building in South of Market in 1995 and attracts 600,000 visitors annually. The California Palace of the Legion of Honor contains primarily European

title: Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants

text: Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants The Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group Inc. is a San Francisco, California, based hotel and restaurant brand owned by the Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG). Founded in 1981 by William (Bill) Kimpton and led by Chief Executive Officer Mike DeFrino, the group was the largest chain of boutique hotels in the United States in 2011. It currently operates 65 hotels, all but the Kimpton Seafire Resort + Spa in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands and the Kimpton De Witt in Amsterdam are in the United States. New hotels have been announced for Toronto, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Paris, Grenada,

title: Palace Hotel, San Francisco

text: a city block, the now century-old nine-story hotel stands immediately adjacent to both the BART Montgomery Street Station and the Monadnock Building, and across Market Street from Lotta's Fountain. The Palace Hotel is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The original Palace Hotel was built by San Francisco banker and entrepreneur William Chapman Ralston, who heavily depended on his shaky banking empire to help finance the $5 million project. Although Ralston's Bank of California collapsed in late August 1875, and Ralston himself drowned in San Francisco Bay on the

title: Ferries of San Francisco Bay

text: Ferries of San Francisco Bay San Francisco Bay in California has been served by ferries of all types for over 150 years. John Reed established a sailboat ferry service in 1826. Although the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge led to the decline in the importance of most ferries, some are still in use today for both commuters and tourists. One of the earliest ferry routes ran between San Francisco and Oakland on what was called the "creek route". The name derived from the Oakland landing site located at the foot of Broadway where

text: San Jose. In 2018, several companies started offering dockless scooter-sharing systems in Bay Area cities such as San Francisco and Oakland. These systems offer electric kick scooters for rent, similar to dockless bicycle sharing systems. Some operators, such as Lime, operate both scooter and bicycle sharing systems. These shared scooters were temporarily banned in San Francisco during summer 2018, but are available under two operators: Skip and Scoot Networks. The average amount of time people spend commuting with public transit in San Francisco, for example to and from work, on a weekday is 77 min. 23% of public transit riders,

title: Sports in the San Francisco Bay Area

text: the Bay Area: Alameda Merchants, Burlingame Bucks, San Carlos Salty Dogs, San Mateo Rounders, Solano Mudcats, Walnut Creek Crawdags, and the West Coast Kings. Amateur men's soccer has been played in San Francisco since 1902 through the San Francisco Soccer Football League. Over 40 teams in 4 divisions play throughout the city between March and November. Premier Division games are played at the 3,500 seat Boxer Stadium. Amateur women's soccer is played on over 30 teams in the Golden Gate Women's Soccer League. Supporter-owned San Francisco City FC, founded in 2001 as part of the SFSFL, has played in the

title: San Francisco

text: distance from downtown San Francisco as SFO, but due to its location across San Francisco Bay, it is greater driving distance from San Francisco. Cycling is a popular mode of transportation in San Francisco. 75,000 residents commute by bicycle per day. Ford GoBike, previously named Bay Area Bike Share at inception, launched in August 2013 with 700 bikes in downtown San Francisco, selected cities in the East Bay, and San Jose. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and Bay Area Air Quality Management District are responsible for the operation with management provided by Motivate. A major expansion started in 2017

title: Reportedly haunted locations in the San Francisco Bay Area

text: genre of stories, journalistic articles or based on investigations into the incidents. Some of the references have been sourced to books in the San Francisco Public Library, books such as “Haunted Houses of California” and the story of San Francisco Art Institute by Antoinette May, the "Vanishing Hitchhiker" by Rose Robinson, and “Foot Steps in the Fog : Alfred Hitchcocks San Francisco” authored by Jeff Craft and Aaron Leventhol. Reportedly haunted locations in the San Francisco Bay Area There are many reportedly haunted locations in San Francisco, California. According to ghost hunters, over 100 sites in the San Francisco Bay

title: San Francisco

text: 6 championships, including three of the last four. At the collegiate level, the San Francisco Dons compete in NCAA Division I. Bill Russell led the Don's basketball team to NCAA championships in 1955 and 1956. There is also the San Francisco State Gators, who compete in NCAA Division II. AT&T Park hosted the annual Fight Hunger Bowl college football game from 2002 through 2013 before it moved to Santa Clara. The Bay to Breakers footrace, held annually since 1912, is best known for colorful costumes and a celebratory community spirit. The San Francisco Marathon attracts more than 21,000 participants. The

title: Cycling in San Francisco

text: "bicycle corrals", which are groups of five to eight inverted-U racks located in the street next to the sidewalk (usually replacing one automobile parking space). All parking garages in San Francisco open to the public must also provide a certain number of bicycle parking racks, the number of which is based on the number of automobile parking spaces provided. San Francisco has a public bicycle-sharing system, Ford GoBike, which launched in 2013 and serves the city of San Francisco, as well as some outlying cities on both sides of the Bay Area. In 2017, private bicycle-sharing company Bluegogo attempted to

title: San Francisco in the 1970s

text: as the San Francisco Sound was performed live and recorded by San Francisco-based rock groups of the mid-1960s to early 1970s. It was associated with the counterculture community in the city at the time. San Francisco was the cradle of the pornography industry in the United States in the 1970s, and led to a dramatic growth of strip clubs, adult movie theaters, "peep show" booths, and sex shops downtown, as well as to the creation of the first feminist advocacy groups for sex workers. Many skyscrapers were built in the city during this period. The city is also associated with

text: Francisco. Transportation in the San Francisco Bay Area Transportation in the San Francisco Bay Area is reliant on a complex multimodal infrastructure consisting of roads, bridges, highways, rail, tunnels, airports, and bike and pedestrian paths. The development, maintenance, and operation of these different modes of transportation are overseen by various agencies, including the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), the Association of Bay Area Governments, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. These and other organizations collectively manage several interstate highways and state routes, two subway networks, two commuter rail agencies, eight trans-bay bridges, transbay ferry service, local

title: San Francisco in the 1970s

text: civil rights movement is a nationally recognized institution in the Bay Area. The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) celebrates Latino culture with a "Carnaval," every year, which is said to be the largest multi-cultural event in San Francisco. A gay San Francisco postal worker who was to be dismissed from service by the Civil Service Commission on the grounds of "moral incompetency" fought for his rights in the court, in November 1970, and was reinstated in the job. This marked the beginning of gay reforms. Many important skyscrapers in San Francisco were built in the 1970s. The Hilton

title: San Francisco in the 1970s

text: newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst in Berkeley, her father gave away more than $6 million worth of food to those in need in the San Francisco area, only to learn that the Symbionese Liberation Army felt his efforts weren't sufficient, thereby retaining Hearst as their prisoner. On April 15, 1974, Hearst was recorded on surveillance video wielding an M1 carbine while robbing the Sunset District branch of the Hibernia Bank at 1450 Noriega Street in San Francisco, having taken the revolutionary name Tania. Hearst was arrested in San Francisco with other SLA members in 1975. ]In August 1975, almost the entire

title: San Francisco

text: parks maintained by the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department. The largest and best-known city park is Golden Gate Park, which stretches from the center of the city west to the Pacific Ocean. Once covered in native grasses and sand dunes, the park was conceived in the 1860s and was created by the extensive planting of thousands of non-native trees and plants. The large park is rich with cultural and natural attractions such as the Conservatory of Flowers, Japanese Tea Garden and San Francisco Botanical Garden. Lake Merced is a fresh-water lake surrounded by parkland and near the San Francisco

title: The San Francisco Call

text: Bulletin". In 1965 the paper merged with the "San Francisco Examiner". Bulletin Call Call-Bulletin The San Francisco Call The San Francisco Call was a newspaper that served San Francisco, California. Because of a succession of mergers with other newspapers, the paper variously came to be called The San Francisco Call & Post, the San Francisco Call-Bulletin, San Francisco News-Call Bulletin, and the News-Call Bulletin before finally merging with the "San Francisco Examiner" and losing "news," "call," and "bulletin." Between December 1856 and March 1895 "The San Francisco Call" was named "The Morning Call", but its name was changed when it

title: St. Dominic Church in San Francisco

text: at a ring beam that girdles the church at the roof line. This medieval concept was found to be the best solution to a late 20th-century problem. But the cost was in 1992 dollars: $6.6 million. Parishioners and friends from around the world confirmed the importance of this Church by raising all the needed funds. Construction was completed in July 1992, and Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco dedicated Saint Dominic's Church on August 1, 1992. St. Dominic Church in San Francisco St. Dominic's Church in San Francisco, California, is a Roman Catholic parish situated in the Western Addition

title: Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco

text: when they were moved to the newly constructed Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento in 1978, ended 37 years of Coast Guard fixed wing aviation in San Francisco. In 1991, Air Station San Francisco received its first HH-60 J-Hawk to replace the H-3 Pelican as the medium range Search and Rescue Helicopter. Restructuring in Coast Guard Aviation lead to a short stay of the HH-60 in San Francisco and in June 1996, four HH-65s were moved to San Francisco from San Diego. In the fall of 2001, the Air Station transitioned to the HH-65B, an upgrade in the avionics package. In

title: San Francisco (magazine)

text: itself as simply "San Francisco". In 1999, new management took over and Editor-In-Chief Bruce Kelley arrived in June 2000. Under Kelley's leadership, "San Francisco" has been nominated for two National Magazine awards and has garnered three Maggies as Best City and Regional Magazine from the Western Publications Association (2006, 2007 and 2009). In 2005, "San Francisco" was sold to Modern Luxury Media (a nationwide conglomerate of city and lifestyle magazines). Steven Dinkelspiel stepped to the head of "San Francisco" magazine as the publisher in March 1999 after working as both circulation director and general counsel for the magazine. After the

title: The Falcon in San Francisco

text: the ship explodes. "My Shining Hour" (1943) (uncredited) and "The Sky's the Limit"(music only), music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Johnny Mercer was played by house orchestra in the nightclub scene. Sequences in "The Falcon in San Francisco" were shot on location at prominent locations in San Francisco. Film historians Richard Jewell and Vernon Harbin described "The Falcon in San Francisco", as part of a programmed series. "One of the quaint conventions of the Falcon series was that whenever Tom Conway embarked on a vacation, a corpse would pop up to interrupt his relaxation". In a recent review of the

title: The Falcon in San Francisco

text: The Falcon unravel this mystery without taking a bullet? Will the mafia have their plan thwarted? Can Goldie find himself a bride to reduce his level of income tax?" The Falcon in San Francisco The Falcon in San Francisco is a 1945 American crime and mystery film directed by Joseph H. Lewis and stars Tom Conway, Rita Corday and Edward Brophy, who played the recurring role of "Goldie" Locke. The film was the 11th in The Falcon series of detective films, and the eighth featuring Conway as the amateur sleuth. "The Falcon in San Francisco" was the final film in

title: Quartet San Francisco

text: Quartet San Francisco Quartet San Francisco is a non-traditional and eclectic string quartet led by violinist Jeremy Cohen. The group played their first concert in 2001 and has recorded five albums. Playing a wide range of music genres including jazz, blues, tango, swing, funk, and pop, the group challenges the traditional classical music foundation of the string quartet. Quartet San Francisco won a tango music competition in New York in 2004, and their albums have been nominated five times for Grammy Awards: three in the Best Classical Crossover Album category and two for Best Engineered Album, Classical. Quartet leader and

title: Huntington Hotel (San Francisco)

text: Huntington Hotel (San Francisco) The Scarlet Huntington Hotel is one of the landmark luxury hotels at the top of the Nob Hill district of San Francisco, California. It is located at 1075 California Street, cross street is Taylor Street. The hotel is a twelve-story, Georgian-style brick building that features 135 guest rooms and suites. The hotel is named after Collis P. Huntington, one of the Big Four railroad tycoons of the Old West. However, it is across California Street from Huntington's Mansion, on the site of a mansion owned by the Tobin family, founders of the Hibernia Bank. It was

title: The San Francisco Call

text: The San Francisco Call The San Francisco Call was a newspaper that served San Francisco, California. Because of a succession of mergers with other newspapers, the paper variously came to be called The San Francisco Call & Post, the San Francisco Call-Bulletin, San Francisco News-Call Bulletin, and the News-Call Bulletin before finally merging with the "San Francisco Examiner" and losing "news," "call," and "bulletin." Between December 1856 and March 1895 "The San Francisco Call" was named "The Morning Call", but its name was changed when it was purchased by John D. Spreckels. In the period from 1863 to 1864 Mark

title: Social nudity in San Francisco

text: for social nudity in San Francisco were Lloyd Fishback, Rusty Mills, Rocky Angel, George Davis, "Nude Woody", Tortuga, Gypsy Taub, "Naked Marvin", Rich & Julie Pasco, Erik, SaraKay, "Bare", Mickey, Mikal, WNBR San Francisco organizers, Gerry West, C.J., Ross, and many others. In newspaper reports, these people are generally referred to as the "Castro nudists". Nudists were active in some neighborhoods in San Francisco besides the Castro, including the Haight-Ashbury, Union Square, Fisherman's Wharf as well as the Mission. Some nudists who live in San Francisco will go about their daily activities nude no matter where these activities take them.

title: San Francisco Symphony

text: consistent singing. Ozawa purchased a home in San Francisco, planning to stay for many years. However, he agreed to become music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and for a time simultaneously directed both orchestras. After leaving San Francisco, Ozawa has returned twice as guest conductor. Edo de Waart succeeded Ozawa in 1977. Though considered to be not as flamboyant as Ozawa, de Waart maintained the orchestra's high standards, leading to additional recordings, including its first digital sessions. He conducted the orchestra's first performances in the newly constructed Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in September 1980, including the nationally televised

text: Lowell High School in San Francisco and the J.F. Kennedy Middle School in Cupertino. MEXT also defines the Grossman Academy Japanese Language School as an official weekend school. The academy has its offices in Fremont and its classes are held in Palo Alto. Saniku Gakuin in Japan has an affiliated weekend Japanese school, the Saniku Gakuin Japanese School in Santa Clara, California (三育学院サンタクララ校 "San'iku Gakuin Santakurara Kō"). It holds its classes at Latimer Elementary School in San Jose. Kinmon Gakuen (金門学園) is a Japanese language school in San Francisco, established in 1911. History of the Japanese in San Francisco There

title: Port of San Francisco

text: Park and Pacific Bell Park), located next to China Basin and Pier 70 at Potrero Point. Huge covered piers on piles jut out into San Francisco bay along much of the waterfront, bordered by the Embarcadero roadway. In 2015, the City, acting through the Port of San Francisco, launched the San Francisco Seawall Earthquake Safety and Disaster Prevention Program (Seawall Program). The first landing place on the north-eastern tip of the San Francisco peninsula was a rocky promontory below Telegraph Hill later known as Clarke's Point that jutted into the San Francisco Bay at the line of what is now