The first superhighways -- New York's Henry Hudson and Chicago's Lake Shore, San Francisco's Bay Bridge and its approaches, a good slice of the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- were built as part of the federal works program which was going to cure the depression.

`` Science In Action '', San Francisco's venerable television program, will be seen in Hong Kong this fall in four languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, Chiuchow and English, according to a tip from Dr. Robert C. Miller.

In the line of operatic trades to cushion the budget, the Dallas Civic Opera will use San Francisco's new Leni Bauer-Ecsy production of `` Lucia Di Lammermoor '' this season, returning the favor next season when San Francisco uses the Dallas `` Don Giovanni '', designed by Franco Zeffirelli.

* 1873 – The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.

They perform at both military and civilian airfields, and often perform directly over major cities such as San Francisco's " Fleet Week " maritime festival, Cleveland's annual Labor Day Air Show, the Chicago Air and Water Show, and Seattle's annual Seafair festival.

In the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, residents of San Francisco's Marina District help run lengths of fire hose from a fireboat to firefighters ashore after the hydrant system failed.

Rather than using a grip car and single trailer, as many cities did, or combining the grip and trailer into a single car, like San Francisco's California Cars, Chicago used grip cars to pull trains of up to three trailers.

They took up a long residency at San Francisco's Black Hawk nightclub and gained great popularity touring college campuses, recording a series of albums with such titles as Jazz at Oberlin ( 1953 ), Jazz at the College of the Pacific ( 1953 ), and Brubeck's debut on Columbia Records, Jazz Goes to College ( 1954 ).

He and Bob Ross, former publisher of San Francisco's Bay Area Reporter represented the gay press and lectured in Moscow and St. Petersburg at Russia's first openly gay conference, referred to as Russia's Stonewall.

Modern political improvisation's roots include Jerzy Grotowski's work in Poland during the late 1950s and early 1960s, Peter Brook's " happenings " in England during the late 1960s, Augusto Boal's " Forum Theatre " in South America in the early 1970s, and San Francisco's The Diggers ' work in the 1960s.

On 30 June 2003, Caron traveled to San Francisco to appear as the special guest star in The Songs of Alan Jay Lerner: I Remember It Well, a retrospective concert staged by San Francisco's 42nd Street Moon Company.

San Francisco's second wave included The Avengers, Negative Trend, The Mutants, and The Sleepers.

Crossing the lines between " classic " punk, post-punk, and hardcore, San Francisco's Flipper was founded in 1979 by former members of Negative Trend and The Sleepers.

Austin, Texas's Big Boys, San Francisco's Dead Kennedys, and Vancouver's D. O. A.

Ringwood Brewery founder, Peter Austin, is thought to be an influence on Britain's craft brewery rebirth in much the same way that Fritz Maytag of San Francisco's Anchor Brewing Company and Pierre Celis of Belgium's Hoegaarden Brewery were to their countries.

An example can be seen on the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's website in their " American Currency Exhibit ":

In 1960, the Giants moved to Candlestick Park ( sometimes known simply as " The ' Stick "), a stadium built on Candlestick Point in San Francisco's southeast corner overlooking San Francisco Bay.

AT & T Park is the centerpiece of a renaissance in San Francisco's South Beach and Mission Bay neighborhoods.

Modeled after recent successes in downtown ballpark building ( such as San Francisco's AT & T Park ), and incorporating San Diego history in the form of the preservation of the facade of the historic Western Metals Company building ( now the left-field corner, the corner of the building substituting for the left field foul pole ), the new Petco Park is a sharp contrast to their previous home at Qualcomm ( Jack Murphy ) Stadium which was a cookie-cutter type football-baseball facility located in an outer, mostly commercial-industrial, area of the city near an interstate interchange.

Much of San Francisco's success was aided by their offensive line, which featured Dan Audick ( LT ), John Ayers ( LG ), Fred Quillan ( C ), Randy Cross ( RG ), and Keith Fahnhorst ( RT ).

After returning the opening kickoff 17 yards, San Francisco's Amos Lawrence was hit by Bengals linebacker Guy Frazier and fumbled at his own 26-yard line ( the first time in a Super Bowl that a turnover took place on the opening kick ), where John Simmons recovered for Cincinnati.

I'm in a room over the Golden Club on San Pedro, you just ask for me there, you want see me.

Enrique Jorda, conductor and musical director of the San Francisco Symphony, will fulfill two more guest conducting engagements in Europe before returning home to open the symphony's Golden Anniversary season, it was announced.

Immediately after, he received several marks of distinction: he was made President of the Accademia di San Luca, the main artistic institution in Rome, and by the hand of the Pope himself his name was inscribed in " the Golden Volume of the Capitol ", and he received the title of Marquis of Ischia, with an annual pension of 3000 crowns.

Within 2 weeks of the Golden Gate Yacht Club winning the America's Cup, Alameda city council with local support sent a unanimous letter of support to hold AC 34 in San Francisco Bay Area.

The De Anza Expedition led to establishment of the Spanish Presidio of San Francisco at the entrance to San Francisco Bay ( the Golden Gate ), which is due west of Berkeley.

The film won the Golden Shell at the 1969 San Sebastian Film Festival.

Simpler and cruder examples from the same year occurs in William S. Hart ' sThe Narrow Trail, in which a single shot of the mouth of San Francisco Bay taken against the light ( the Golden Gate ) is preceded by a narrative title explaining its symbolic function in the story.

Among the major artistic films of this era were La città delle donne, E la nave va, Ginger and Fred by Fellini, L ' albero degli zoccoli by Ermanno Olmi ( winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival ), La notte di San Lorenzo by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Antonioni's Identificazione di una donna, and Bianca and La messa è finita by Nanni Moretti.

Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

His final U. S. performance was in San Francisco on August 20, 2006, as headliner at the Festival of the Golden Gate ( Foggfest ) on the Great Meadow at Fort Mason.

* 1862 – Sailing from San Francisco, California to Panama City, Panama, the SS Golden Gate catches fire and sinks off Manzanillo, Mexico, killing 231.

* 1967 – Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.

* 1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.

* 1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, D. C., who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.

By saying " between anchorages ", the bridge could be considered longer than the Golden Gate Bridge and also longer than the suspended western section of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge.

Heavy rust on the links of a chain near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco ; it was continuously exposed to moisture and salt spray, causing surface breakdown, cracking, and flaking of the metal.

The waterway entrance to San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean is called the Golden Gate.

The first European to enter the bay is believed to have been the Spanish explorer Juan de Ayala, who passed through the Golden Gate on August 5, 1775 in his ship the San Carlos, and moored in a bay of Angel Island now known as Ayala Cove.

( 1 ) Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, ( 2 ) Golden Gate Bridge, ( 3 ) San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, ( 4 ) San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, ( 5 ) Dumbarton Bridge

San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge

San Francisco Bay is spanned by eight bridges, all of them dedicated to vehicle traffic: the Golden Gate Bridge on Highway 101 ( which was the largest single span suspension bridge ever built at the time of its construction ) which connects San Francisco and Marin counties and is the only bridge in the area not owned by the State of California.

To the north, the Golden Gate Bridge connects San Francisco with Marin County.