The lighthouse on Alcatraz Island is still operational with its light beacon rotating once every five seconds as a navigational aid for shipping in San Francisco Bay. It has been automated since November 22nd, 1963, the same year the island’s penitentiary closed. Read more...
In San Francisco, street parking at a broken or inoperable parking meter is permitted for the posted time limit or 4 hours, whichever is shorter. Read more...
Prepayment can be made at San Francisco street parking meters before their designated operating time from 4:30 am, except at Port meters near the waterfront. Most San Francisco parking meters operate from 9 am to 6 pm Monday through Saturday. The prepaid time begins when the meter starts operating and parking prior to that is free of charge. Read more...
YouTube’s headquarters are located at 901 Cherry Avenue in San Bruno, California. The Google-owned video-sharing platform moved into the offices in 2008. They were the former corporate headquarters of The Gap, Inc. Read more...
Madison Square Garden is the home arena of the New York Rangers NHL ice hockey team and the New York Knicks NBA basketball team. St John’s Red Storm men’s NCAA basketball team also plays some home games at The Garden. Read more...
The Los Angeles Kings ice hockey team plays its home games at Crypto.com Arena (formerly called the STAPLES Center) in downtown Los Angeles, California. Since the team’s founding in 1967, the LA Kings played for 32 years at the Great Western Forum in the LA suburb of Inglewood, before moving to their current home at the start of the 1999–2000 Read more...
Yes, you can walk over the Granville Street Bridge in Vancouver. The walk, including bridge approaches is approximately 1 kilometer and offers views of downtown Vancouver, False Creek, and English Bay. Sidewalks on both sides are narrow, and may be shared with cyclists. To reach Granville Island on foot, the best approach is to use the bridge’s east sidewalk, but Read more...
Debbi Fields opened her first cookie store as Mrs Fields’ Chocolate Chippery in Palo Alto on August 18th, 1977 in the Liddicoats Market food mall at 340 University Avenue, where the Apple store stands today. The popularity of the store’s freshly baked cookies grew, and in 1979 a second location was opened at Pier 39 in San Francisco. The business Read more...
The city of Lexington, Nebraska is approximately halfway between San Francisco and New York City on the I-80 at Exit 237. There are chain restaurants, hotels, gas stations and a Wal-Mart just off the highway. Read more...
The accuracy of the Ingleside sundial in San Francisco varies throughout the year. Its longitudinal location means it runs anything up to 24 minutes behind Pacific Standard Time for most of the year, being slowest around February 11th. Ignoring the hour difference caused by daylight saving time, the Ingleside sundial is within a minute or so of clock time from Read more...
On the evening of September 29th, 2003, Atlanta Thrashers hockey player Dany Heatley lost control of his Ferrari on Lenox Road in the residential district of Buckhead, Atlanta. The car collided with a brick pillar and wrought iron fence outside the Plantation apartment complex, splitting the vehicle in two. Heatley and his passenger, Thrashers teammate Dan Snyder, suffered serious injuries. Read more...
George Herman “Babe” Ruth is buried in Section 25 of the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York. The former professional baseball player for the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees died aged 53 in August 1948. He was interred at the cemetery following a funeral mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan. An epitaph by Cardinal Spellman Read more...
A bronze statue of Nikola Tesla stands on Birch Avenue in Palo Alto at the intersection with Sheridan Avenue. The statue of the Serbian-American engineer and inventor was sculpted by Terry Guyer following a crowdfunding campaign and was unveiled December 7th, 2013. The statue serves as a free public wi-fi hotspot and also contains a time capsule to be opened Read more...
Manchester United was originally established in 1878 as Newton Heath LYR Football Club by the Carriage and Wagon department of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR) depot at Newton Heath, Manchester. It became Manchester United F.C. in 1902. The team played at the North Road ground in Newton Heath until 1893, when it moved to a new ground at Bank Read more...
The Burning Man festival started as a gathering held on San Francisco’s Baker Beach to mark the 1986 summer solstice. On June 22nd, 1986, Larry Harvey and Jerry James burned a 9-foot wooden human effigy they built at the northern end of Baker Beach, in the presence of a small group of friends. While the beach was already a place Read more...