Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/16

... that after a painted garage door was destroyed, the Precita Eyes muralists salvaged it and merged it into a new one, said to be one of their most beautiful in San Francisco?
... that the San Francisco Bay Area will have a new direct rail to ferry connection when the Hercules intermodal rail station and WETA ferry terminal is constructed?
... that San Francisco indie rock band LoveLikeFire formed as a result of a Craigslist classified advertisement?
... that Thomas Kimmwood Peters was the only newsreel photographer to film the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906?
... that San Francisco's 1873 Pigtail Ordinance was deemed unconstitutional because it discriminated against Chinese immigrants?
... that Temple Sinai, a Reform synagogue in Oakland, California, grew out of Oakland's Hebrew Benevolent Society in 1875?
... that 29 percent of the population of Birds Landing, California can speak Spanish?

July 2008