Classifieds website Craigslist was started in 1995 from founder Craig Newmark’s ground floor apartment at 1010 Cole Street in San Francisco. Craigslist operated from here until 2000 when it moved to offices in the Sunset District. Read more...
When John Lennon and Yoko Ono moved to New York City in August 1971, they lived at the St Regis Hotel for two months before moving to an apartment at 105 Bank Street in the West Village. The couple rented the apartment from The Lovin’ Spoonful’s drummer-vocalist Joe Butler, and lived there until 1973 when they moved to their apartment Read more...
Singer Amy Winehouse was found dead, aged 27, in the bedroom of her home at 30 Camden Square in London on the afternoon of Saturday 23rd July 2011. The cause of death was said to be alcohol poisoning and the coroner recorded a verdict of death by misadventure. Read more...
Actor Orson Bean was struck and killed by a car on the evening of February 7th, 2020 on North Venice Boulevard at Pisani Place in Venice, Los Angeles. The accident occurred outside the Pacific Resident Theatre where 91-year-old Bean and his wife, actor Alley Mills, were members. Read more...
The highest point in Calgary is the peak of Top Hill with an elevation of 1,296 metres (or 4,252 feet). Despite its high elevation, the hill, located behind the YMCA at Rocky Ridge in northwest Calgary, only has a prominence of some 24 meters (or 79 feet). Read more...
Columbia College in New York is Columbia University’s traditional undergraduate liberal arts college. It is situated on the Morningside Heights campus in Manhattan. Founded in 1754 as King’s College, Columbia College is the oldest school within Columbia University. Read more...
From age 5 to 23, John Lennon’s childhood home was his Aunt Mimi’s house, Mendips, on Menlove Avenue, in Woolton, Liverpool. Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono purchased the 1930s semi-detached property in 2002 and donated it to the National Trust, after which it was restored to its 1950s appearance and opened to the public for tours. A blue plaque on the Read more...
The Sand Ladder steps from the north end of Baker Beach emerge on the California Coastal Trail that runs alongside Lincoln Boulevard. Heading north on this trail for approximately 1 mile will lead to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. Read more...
A person who is a long-time resident or native of Seattle is called a Seattleite. It is the commonly used demonym for someone from Seattle. Read more...
A cast stone sculpture of British nurse Florence Nightingale stands outside Laguna Honda Hospital in Twin Peaks, San Francisco. Nightingale is widely credited as being one of the pioneers of modern nursing. A plaque on the statue reads: In memory of Florence Nightingale, ‘The Founder of Professional Nursing’. Designed and created by the late David Edstrom. Dedicated National Hospital Day, Read more...
The two peaks of Twin Peaks are the North peak, known as Eureka Peak, and the taller South peak, which is called Noe Peak. Standing at 922 feet, Noe Peak is the second tallest hill in San Francisco after Mount Davidson. Read more...
The first Tacoma Narrows Bridge had the same location as the present day westbound bridge spanning the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound between Tacoma and Gig Harbour, Washington. Aerodynamic factors caused a substantial collapse of the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge in November 1940, just four months after opening. The new bridge, opened in October 1950, was a complete replacement, Read more...
LA Lakers basketball player Kobe Bryant attended Lower Merion High School in Ardmore near Philadelphia, where he joined the varsity basketball team as a freshman, earning a total of 2,883 points between 1992 and 1996. He spent much of his childhood in Italy, where his father, former basketball player Joe Bryant, played professional basketball after retiring from the NBA, before Read more...
Former LA Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash on January 26th, 2020 on a hillside near Las Virgenes Road and Willow Glen Street in Calabasas, California. The 41-year-old NBA Champion was a passenger in a Sikorsky S-76B N72EX which crashed in foggy conditions, killing all nine people on board, including Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter, Gianna. Read more...
The Statue of Liberty was erected in New York in 1886 and dedicated on October 28th, 1886 by President Grover Cleveland. Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi started fabricating the Statue of Liberty in France in 1875 and completed the work in July 1884. In 1885, the statue was shipped in sections to New York and assembled on a purpose-built granite pedestal Read more...
There are open air parking lots surrounding North Berkeley BART station. Permit lots are permit parking only between 4 am and 10 am, after which they operate as normal daily fee parking lots. Payment or permit is required in Fee parking lots on weekdays from 4 am to 3 pm and is free on weekends and holidays. The lots are Read more...
Sutro Tower is a prominent three-pronged TV and radio antenna tower in San Francisco. Located near Mount Sutro on one of the city’s highest points, the red and white metal tower was San Francisco’s tallest structure from completion in 1973 until the Salesforce Tower was finished in 2017. Read more...