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Alcatraz is a former prison, which was used as a federal prison from 1934 to 1963 a total of 29 years. It is located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) offshore from San Francisco in the center of San Francisco Bay in California. It has been open to the public since 1972 and has become a very famous historic and to... |
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Treasure Island is an artificial island in the San Francisco Bay between San Francisco and Oakland, and an emerging neighborhood of San Francisco. Treasure Island is connected by a small isthmus to Yerba Buena Island. It was created in 1936 and 1937, from fill dredged from the bay, for the Golden Ga... |
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The Marina Green in San Francisco, California is a 74-acre expanse of grass between Fort Mason and the Presidio. It is adjacent to San Francisco Bay, and this location provides good views of the Golden Gate Bridge, Angel Island, Alcatraz Island, and parts of Marin County. Houses built mostly in the ... |
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The Gandhi Statue was given to the city in 1988 by the Gandhi Memorial International Foundation, "a controversial non-profit organization run by Yogesh K. Gandhi," who Gandhi family members claim was a "scam artist" and the White House called "clearly disreputable" when... |
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When Andrew Smith Hallidie witnessed a horrible accident on a typically damp summer day in 1869, he became the driving force behind the San Francisco cable car system. On August 2, 1873, Andrew Hallidie tested the first cable car system near the top of Nob Hill at Clay and Jones Streets, thus introd... |
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The Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco, California, is a monumental structure originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in order to exhibit works of art presented there. After the Exposition, most of it was demolished, except the Palace dome. An earthquak... |
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Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, surrounds the prominent Strawberry Hill, now an island with an electrically pumped waterfall. Rowboats and pedalboats can be rented at the boathouse. Much of the western portion of San Francisco can be seen from the top of this hill, which at its top con... |
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Golden Gate Park, located in San Francisco, California, is a large urban park consisting of 1,017 acres (412 ha) of public grounds. In 1860s when the San Franciscans felt the need for a park, they appointed the engineer William Hammond Hall who converted windswept sand dunes into this beautiful urba... |
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Spreckels Lake is a lake in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Named after sugar magnate Adolph B. Spreckels who also served as San Francisco's Park Commissioner. Spreckels Lake is located on the northern side of the park near 36th Avenue. It is the home of SF's Model Yacht Club, so th... |
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The Mission District, also commonly called "The Mission", is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, USA, named after the sixth Alta California mission, Mission San Francisco de Asis, San Francisco's oldest building, which is located in the neighborhood. It is an area known for i... |
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Nob Hill refers to a unique neighborhood of steep hills, cable cars, ethnic diversity, and high population density in San Francisco, California centered on the intersection of California and Powell streets. It is one of San Francisco's 44 hills, and one of its original "Seven Hills." ... |
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Seven Sisters or Painted Ladies or Postcard Row are a group of 7 Victorian homes which is a delightful and enchanting sight in San Francisco. The Seven Sisters live in Alamo Square, a locality known for its stately Victorian homes. In the middle of this square is a park that allows you to sit and og... |
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Coit Tower is actually a proof how San Francisco is loved by its citizens. Wealthy socialite Lillie Hitchcock Coit so admired firemen at the 1906 earthquake fire that she bequeathed one third of her fortune in 1929 for the beautification of San Francisco. In 1934 Coit Tower (designed as a classic co... |
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The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay into the Pacific Ocean. The structure links the city of San Francisco on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula to Marin County. The Golden Gate Bridge was the longest suspension bri... |
