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In the city of Berkeley, California, yellow curbs indicate commercial loading zones reserved for businesses to actively load and unload merchandise or materials. General vehicles may also stop at yellow curbs for up to three minutes to pick up and drop off passengers, and the driver must remain present with the vehicle. Commercial vehicles have a 20-minute parking limit at Read more...
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San Francisco’s Sutro Baths building was destroyed by fire caused by arson on June 26th, 1966. The landmark structure, opened by Adolf Sutro in 1896, stood below the Cliff House and housed indoor bathing pools, with an ice rink and penny arcade added later. It struggled financially because of high operating costs, and was sold in a deteriorated condition in Read more...
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The Beach Boys Historic Landmark, commemorating the site of the childhood home of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys, is located at West 119th Street and South Kornblum Avenue in Hawthorne, California. Early Beach Boys recordings were made in the home, where the Wilsons lived until the mid-1960s. The house was demolished in the 1980s to Read more...
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The 2021 season Super Bowl 56 was played at SoFi Stadium in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood, California, on February 13th, 2022, between the Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals. The LA Rams won, defeating the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20, and Rams wide receiver Cooper Kupp was named Super Bowl MVP. Country singer Mickey Guyton performed the national anthem Read more...
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Stanford University renamed Serra Mall to Jane Stanford Way in October 2019, in recognition of the harmful impacts on Native Americans of the California mission system established by the street’s namesake, the 18th century Roman Catholic missionary Father Junipero Serra. Changing the name of the pedestrian and bicycle mall was symbolic because it is also the official address of Stanford Read more...