Senator Cory Booker’s childhood home was on Norma Road in Harrington Park, New Jersey, until 1977 when he moved with his family to a new home on Parkhill Road in Harrington Park. Read more...
The Gap’s first store was in San Francisco’s Ingleside district at Ocean Avenue and Fairfield Way, next to the El Rey Theater. The store opened in 1969, initially selling only Levi’s jeans, records and tapes, but closed in 1974 as The Gap grew into a chain of clothing stores. Read more...
George Moscone’s grave is in the St Michael section of Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Colma, California. The serving Mayor of San Francisco was shot and killed at San Francisco City Hall on November 27th, 1978, aged 49, by former city supervisor Dan White. Read more...
The first Japanese car to be manufactured in the US was the Honda Accord which first rolled off production at Honda’s factory in Marysville, Ohio, on November 1, 1982. The first American-built Accord was a silver gray four-dour sedan bearing an Ohio license plate reading USA 001 and is presently on display at the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Read more...
The first Starbucks in Chicago opened at 111 West Jackson Boulevard in the Loop on October 19, 1987. There is no longer a Starbucks at this location. Read more...
The NPR member public radio stations in San Francisco are KQED which broadcasts on FM at 88.5 MHz, and KALW, broadcasting at 91.7 MHz. Both stations also stream online. Read more...
Aberystwyth’s water supply comes from the Bont-goch Water Treatment Works which is fed from the Llyn Craig-y-pistyll and Llyn Llygad Rheidol reservoirs. Read more...
The first Starbucks in Canada opened in Vancouver on March 1, 1987 at the Waterfront Seabus Skytrain Station. It was the first Starbucks store outside Seattle and the company’s first international location. Read more...
The first Peets Coffee store was opened by Alfred Peet in 1966 on Vine Street and Walnut Street in Berkeley, California. The location remains open today as a Peet’s coffee shop, but originally just sold coffee beans rather than drinks. Read more...
The Starbucks on West 32nd Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, has decor inspired by nearby Penn Station and Hudson Rail Yards. Illuminated tracks snake across the store’s ceiling and a 32-foot light box features the work of Brooklyn-based artist Jake Wallace. Read more...
The nearest BART station to the University of California, Berkeley is Downtown Berkeley, which is served by trains running to and from Richmond. The campus is a block east of the station. Read more...
Shake Shack first opened in 2001 in Madison Square Park, New York City, operating initially from a hot dog cart over three summers. The permanent Shake Shack kiosk restaurant opened in the park on June 12, 2004. Read more...
American journalist and author David Halberstam died, aged 73, in a car crash at the intersection of Bayfront Expressway and Willow Road in Menlo Park, California, on April 23rd, 2007. Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize winner, was a passenger in a car that turned left against a red light into the path of another car, and died at the scene from Read more...
The brass letterbox on the front door of 10 Downing Street in London is engraved with the title First Lord of the Treasury. It is the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, not the British Prime Minister, although the distinction is technical because, since 1905, the same person performs both roles concurrently. Read more...
Buck’s restaurant is at Woodside Road and Cañada Road in Woodside, California, about a mile from Exit 25 of I-280 that runs between San Francisco and San Jose. The eccentric diner is a Silicon Valley mainstay with many VC deals reportedly sealed at its tables. Read more...
The start line of the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix is on Boulevard Albert 1er, near L’Escale restaurant and the Casino supermarket in La Condamine. Read more...
Petaluma was branded The World’s Egg Basket during the first half of the 20th century when it was arguably the center of California’s poultry industry. Peaking in the mid 1940s, the region’s poultry ranches produced over 600 million eggs annually. The industry developed here in part due to climate and proximity to river and rail links, but the main catalyst Read more...
The capital city of British Columbia is Victoria on Vancouver Island. Originally the capital of the Colony of Vancouver Island, Victoria was designated the capital of the united Colony of British Columbia in 1868 following the 1866 political amalgamation of the island with the mainland. The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is based in Victoria’s Parliament Buildings, which were completed Read more...