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 Campanile at Berkeley, also known as the Sather Tower, is 307 feet (or 94 meters) tall. Completed in 1915, the Gothic Revival-style tower, designed by architect John Galen Howard, is the tallest structure on the UC Berkeley campus and is the third-tallest clock and bell tower in the world. The tower’s observation platform is located at the 200-foot level. 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...
The giant electrical wall outlet, plug and cord sculpture is on the side of the PG&E substation on 1st Street and D Street in Petaluma. When the 1920s building was refurbished in 2015, the utility company commissioned Joel Jones of Basal Ganglia Studio to design the sculptural installation for the outside wall which was made from steel and fiberglass by Read more...
The Facebook sign with the iconic thumbs up symbol is located outside the company’s headquarters at 1 Hacker Way in Menlo Park. On the reverse is the original sign of Sun Microsystems, who substantially vacated the site in 2010. 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 Seattle Seahawks NFL football team plays its home games at Lumen Field (formerly CenturyLink Field) in Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood. The stadium has been the home field of the Seahawks since it opened in 2002 and it is shared with the Seattle Sounders FC MLS soccer team. Lumen Field is considered one of the loudest stadiums in the NFL, having Read more...
La Rascasse corner, the tight 135 degree right-hand bend on the Monaco Grand Prix circuit, is located on Quai Antoine 1er at Port Hercule. Named after La Rascasse restaurant on the same corner, it was added in 1973 when the race circuit underwent a major modification after the Rainier III Nautical Stadium was built on the harbor. 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...