Portal:San Francisco Bay Area

WELCOME TO THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA   BAY AREA CITIES   RECOGNIZED BAY AREA CONTENT The San Francisco Bay Area Portal California Bay Area county map The San Francisco Bay Area (referred to locally as the Bay Area) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses the major cities and metropolitan areas of San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland, along with smaller urban and rural areas. The Bay Area's nine counties are Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma. Home to approximately 7.68 million people, the nine-county Bay Area contains many cities, towns, airports, and associated regional, state, and national parks, connected by a network of roads, highways, railroads, bridges, tunnels, and commuter rail. The combined statistical area of the region is the second-largest in California (after the Greater Los Angeles area), the fifth-largest in the United States, and the 43rd-largest urban area in the world with 8.80 million people. The Bay Area has the second-most Fortune 500 companies in the United States, after the New York metropolitan area, and is known for its natural beauty, liberal politics, entrepreneurship, and diversity. The area ranks second in highest density of college graduates, after the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and performs above the state median household income in the 2010 census; it includes the five highest California counties by per capita income and two of the top 25 wealthiest counties in the United States. Based on a 2013 population report from the California Department of Finance, the Bay Area is the only region in California where the rate of people migrating in from other areas in the United States is greater than the rate of those leaving the region, led by Alameda and Contra Costa counties. (more...) Selected article The Loma Prieta earthquake also known as the Quake of '89 and the World Series Earthquake, struck the San Francisco Bay Area of California on Tuesday, October 17, 1989, at 5:04 pm local time. Caused by a slip along the San Andreas Fault, the quake lasted 10–15 seconds and measured 6.9 on both the moment magnitude scale and on the Richter magnitude scale. The quake killed 63 people throughout Northern California, injured 3,757 and left some 3,000–12,000 people homeless. The earthquake occurred during the warm-up practice for the third game of the 1989 World Series, featuring both of the Bay Area's Major League Baseball teams, the Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants. Because of game-related sports coverage, this was the first major earthquake in the United States to have its initial jolt broadcast live on television. (more...) Selected biography Alma de Bretteville Spreckels Alma de Bretteville Spreckels (March 24, 1881 – August 7, 1968) was a wealthy socialite and philanthropist in San Francisco, California. She was known both as "Big Alma" (she was 6 feet (1.8 m) tall) and "The Great Grandmother of San Francisco". Among her many accomplishments, she persuaded her first husband, sugar magnate Adolph B. Spreckels, to donate the California Palace of the Legion of Honor to the city of San Francisco. Spreckels' last major project was the construction of the San Francisco Maritime Museum. When it opened in 1951, her collection of model ships that had been on display at the 1939–40 Golden Gate International Exposition was the main exhibit. (more...) Selected city Sonoma is a historically significant city in Sonoma Valley, Sonoma County, California, United States, surrounding its historic town plaza, a remnant of the town's Mexican colonial past. Today, Sonoma is a center of the state's wine industry for the Sonoma Valley AVA Appellation. Sonoma's population was 10,648 as of the 2010 census, while the Sonoma urban area had a population of 32,678. (more...) Selected image Healdsburg Memorial Bridge, Healdsburg (2000) image credit: Historic American Buildings Survey The Bay Area by year 2015 23andMe logo Golden Gate Bridge median Ford Research and Innovation logo UCSF Mission Bay construction Left to right: Ames scientists Michel Nuevo, Christopher Materese and Scott Sandford reproduce uracil, cytosine, and thymine, three key components of our hereditary material, in the laboratory Cordell Bank and Farallones topography SFPD insignia USS Independence in the San Francisco Bay Stephen Curry in 2015 Next Thing Co. logo Wragg Fire Tesla Model X Condor Club Ian Murdock (2008) January Personal genomics and biotechnology company 23andMe announces a $60 million investment by Genentech for Parkinson's research[1] The Golden Gate Bridge closes to automobile traffic for the first time in its history, in order to install a mobile concrete median (pictured) Birds coated with an unidentified sticky grey substance are found along the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, and are sent to International Bird Rescue in Fairfield for cleanup efforts [2] Ford Motor Company announces the creation of the Ford Research and Innovation Center, located in Palo Alto (logo pictured) The Tesoro refinery in Martinez closes due to a strike affecting nine refineries in the US [3] February The National Weather Service announces that due to the ongoing California drought, San Francisco received no January rainfall for the first time in 165 years. The Bay Area had the driest January on record.[4] The University of California, San Francisco Medical Center opens a new hospital in the Mission Bay district of San Francisco (construction pictured) President Barack Obama attends the White House Cybersecurity Summit at Stanford University[5] San Francisco resident Christie White, battling cancer, sues the state of California for the right to die at home, by physician assisted suicide[6] Shipowners at the Port of Oakland suspend the unloading of container and other cargo ships, due to a slowdown during contract negotiations with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union [7] The UCSF Medical Center receives a philanthropic donation of $100 million from Chuck Feeney, the largest gift by an individual in the history of the UC system. [8] Avaya Stadium, the new home of the San Jose Earthquakes soccer team, stages its first Earthquakes soccer game March Scientists (pictured) at the Ames Research Center announce they have synthesized "...uracil, cytosine, and thymine, all three components of RNA and DNA, non-biologically in a laboratory under conditions found in space." [9] Patrick Willis, linebacker for eight years with the San Francisco 49ers, retires at age 30 due to a foot injury Prime Healthcare Services rejects an offer to purchase Daly City's Seton Medical Center and San Jose's O'Connor Hospital from the Daughters of Charity Health System The U.S. Geological Survey report, "Third Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast", estimates there is a 72 percent chance that a magnitude-6.7 or larger quake will strike the Bay Area before the year 2044 [10] The College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley unveils a 9' high 3D printed sculpture, entitled "Bloom", the first printed structure of its type.[11][12][13] The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration more than doubles the size of the Cordell Bank and Gulf of the Farallones Marine Sanctuaries (underwater topography pictured) The San Francisco Police Department relocates its headquarters from the Hall of Justice to a new facility at Mission Bay (insignia pictured) Lawyer and Reddit executive Ellen Pao loses in a gender discrimination lawsuit against Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers April The Brookings Institution reports that San Francisco has the wealthiest people, in the top 5% of its population, of any major U.S. city, and the fastest growing income inequality[14] Governor Jerry Brown imposes mandatory water rationing for the first time in state history, requiring all local water supply agencies, including the Alameda County, Marin, Sonoma and Santa Clara Valley Water Districts, reduce water use by 25%, due to the ongoing drought in California[15] Author and community activist Eddy Zheng is pardoned by governor Brown, for crimes he committed at age 16 [16] Apple, Inc. introduces the Apple Watch (pictured) Over 100 prominent Bay Area Catholics sign a full page advertisement in the San Francisco Chronicle appealing to Pope Francis to replace Salvatore Cordileone as archbishop of the San Francisco Archdiocese, for fostering “an atmosphere of division and intolerance.” [17] The World War II era aircraft carrier USS Independence (pictured) is rediscovered near the Farallon Islands by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [18] Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo closes [19] The San Francisco-based Heald College system shuts down, when its parent company, Corinthian Colleges, goes out of business Tesla Motors announces the Powerwall, a battery system for home use May Golden State Warriors basketball player Stephen Curry (pictured) is awarded the 2015 NBA Most Valuable Player Award The San Mateo–Hayward Bridge closes to traffic, for the first time since opening in 1967, for resurfacing and maintenance [20][21] San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón orders a review of at least 3,000 arrests over the last 10 years, in response to evidence that some San Francisco Police Department officers may have shown racial bias, based on their having sent racist and homophobic text messages [22] San Francisco becomes the first city in the United States to ban chewing tobacco at sports venues, including AT&T Park, the home of the San Francisco Giants [23] The Regional Renewable Energy Procurement Project dedicates its first project, a future solar farm at Hayward's former landfill site [24] Dead Gray Whales wash ashore at Half Moon Bay, then at Portuguese Beach in Sonoma County, with a Sperm Whale also washing ashore at Point Reyes National Seashore, the third, fourth and fifth dead whales found on Bay Area beaches (among eight in Northern California) in less than 2 months [25][26][27] Oakland based start-up Next Thing Co. raises over $1.5m in its Kickstarter campaign for its forthcoming $9 miniature computer, Chip [28] The population of San Jose is now officially over 1,000,000, making it the tenth largest city in the United States, according to the U.S. Census [29] Vandals damage an inflatable dam across Alameda Creek in Fremont, releasing 50 million gallons of drinking water into San Francisco Bay [30] The Solar Energy Research Center opens at the newly built Chu Hall at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley [31] The Golden State Warriors beat the Houston Rockets in the National Basketball Association Playoffs, and advance to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1975 June Surgeons at University of California, San Francisco and California Pacific Medical Center successfully complete 18 surgeries in the nation's first nine-way, two-day kidney transplant chain in a single city [32][33][34] Six people are killed and eight are injured, some with life-threatening injuries, after a balcony collapses in Berkeley, near the campus of the University of California, Berkeley; five of the casualties are Irish students. (NBC News), (AP) The Golden State Warriors win the National Basketball Association Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers, their first championship since 1975 The surviving members of the Grateful Dead play the first concerts of their Fare Thee Well farewell tour, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Dead, at Santa Clara's Levi's Stadium July Former state senator Leland Yee pleads guilty to a federal racketeering charge, confessing to using his bids for secretary of state and Mayor of San Francisco to extort bribes [35] A gunman opens fire at Pier 14 in San Francisco's Embarcadero district, killing Kathryn Steinle. An illegal immigrant from Mexico, Francisco Sanchez, is subsequently arrested and charged with murder. The Wragg Fire wildland fire (pictured) starts just off of California State Route 128 near Lake Berryessa in Napa County August Alphabet, a holding company and conglomerate owning several companies owned by or sprung from Google, is founded September The Valley Fire encroaches into Napa and Sonoma Counties Tesla Motors begins shipping the Model X SUV (pictured) from its Fremont factory [36] UC Berkeley chemistry and materials science professor Peidong Yang is awarded a MacArthur "Genius" grant [37] Filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi releases the documentary San Francisco 2.0, chronicling the recent high tech takeover and gentrification of the City [38] The Golden State Warriors finalize the purchase of 12 acres of land in Mission Bay, San Francisco, to house a future stadium [39] November San Jose is the richest city in the United States, according to Bloomberg [40] Topless stripper Carol Doda, an iconic Condor Club performer, dies in San Francisco (Condor Club ca 1973 pictured) Wang Hall, housing the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, opens at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [41] December Artificial intelligence laboratory OpenAI is founded in San Francisco Linux softward pioneer and Debian founder Ian Murdock (pictured) dies in San Francisco at age 42 CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin, the largest container ship to visit a US port, comes to the Port of Oakland [42] Selected historical image Naval Training Station, Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco (1928) image credit: Historic American Buildings Survey Did you know... San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds ... that the vivid colors of the San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds (pictured), ranging from magenta to blue-green, come from the brine shrimp and microorganisms that thrive in the water? ... that the Laguna Creek watershed debouches into the San Francisco Bay near the site of the ghost town of Drawbridge? ... that the chase scene from the 1968 Steve McQueen film Bullitt starts on Cesar Chavez Street (then Army Street) before continuing through San Francisco? ... that the title of There There, a 2018 novel about urban Indians in Oakland, California, mirrors Gertrude Stein's quip about the city that "There is no there there"? Previous Did you know... Million Dollar Backfield Y.A Tittle Hugh McElhenny John Henry Johnson Joe Perry  • ... that the San Francisco 49ers Million Dollar Backfield is the only full-house backfield to have all four of its members enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame? Illustration from work by Portnoy  • ... that Peg's Place, after a 1979 assault by off-duty members of the San Francisco vice squad, drew national attention to other incidents of anti-gay violence and police harassment of the LGBT community?  • ... that Maud's in the Haight-Ashbury was patronized in the late 1960's by Janis Joplin, who would visit with her female lover Jae Whitaker?  • ... that UC Berkeley microbiologist Daniel A. Portnoy made the seminal discovery that Listeria monocytogenes spreads from one cell to another by exploiting a host cell system of actin polymerization? (process pictured) September 2016 Selected periodic event Salt production in Newark Newark Days is an annual four day celebration that takes place in Newark every September to celebrate the incorporation of the city on September 22, 1955. Annual attendance for the celebration is more than 100,000. (Production facilities at Morton Salt, part of the history of the Newark region, pictured) Quote “ I will go to (UC Berkeley) campus alone dressed in antique silk slips and beat-up cowboy boots and gypsy beads, and I will study poetry. I will sit on the edge of the fountain in the plaza and write. ” ~ Francesca Lia Block, Girl Goddess #9: Nine Stories Selected multimedia file Rattlesnakes, Windy Hill Open Space Preserve, Portola Valley, San Mateo County credit: Dawn Endico Bay Area regions, geographic features and protected areas Regions East Bay North Bay Peninsula Santa Clara Valley Silicon Valley Wine Country West Marin Geographic features San Francisco Bay San Pablo Bay Suisun Bay Islands of the Bay Marin Headlands Diablo Range Berkeley Hills Santa Cruz Mountains Protected areas Golden Gate Recreation Area Farallones Marine Sanctuary Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge Point Reyes Seashore Mount Tamalpais State Park Henry Coe State Park Midpeninsula Open Space East Bay Regional Parks Related Portals WikiProject You are invited to participate in the San Francisco Bay Area task force, a task force dedicated to developing and improving articles about the San Francisco Bay Area. Things you can do Oakland, California. Junior Employment Service. Filling out applications. The girls want part time work in domestic service. 1940 *Write an article on a Bay Area-related subject *Propose new material or features for this portal *Add new selected articles *Add new selected biographies *Add new selected cities *Add new selected images *Add new selected historical images *Add new selected events *Add new selected multimedia files *Add new quotes *Add new historical events *Add new selected panoramas Selected panorama Dead whale, Ocean Beach, San Francisco image credit: Brocken Inaglory San Francisco Bay Area categories Bay Area | San Francisco Bay | San Francisco | San Jose | Oakland | Cities | Census-designated places | Historic Places | National Landmarks | Counties: Alameda | Contra Costa | Marin | Napa | San Mateo | Santa Clara | Solano | Sonoma Architecture | Attractions | Books | Culture | Economy | Education | Environment | Events & Festivals | Geography | Government | History | Landmarks | Law | Mass media | Military | Music | Organizations | Parks | People | Politics | Science | Sports | Transport Full category tree Select [►] to view the full category tree. San Francisco Bay Area Associated Wikimedia The following Wikimedia Foundation sister projects provide more on this subject: Commons Free media repository Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals Wikidata Free knowledge base Wikinews Free-content news Wikiquote Collection of quotations Wikisource Free-content library Wikiversity Free learning tools Wikivoyage Free travel guide Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus Discover Wikipedia using portals List of all portals The arts portal Biography portal Current events portal Geography portal History portal Mathematics portal Science portal Society portal Technology portal Random portal WikiProject Portals