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There is a parking lot next to the San Francisco DMV office at Fell Street and Broderick Street in Haight-Ashbury which is free for DMV customers between 7 am and 5 pm.

Just before 9 am on June 14th, 2017, Jimmy Lam shot five coworkers, three fatally, at the UPS distribution facility at 320 San Bruno Avenue, between 16th and 17th Streets in San Francisco’s Portero Hill neighborhood. Lam later took his own life in the building by shooting himself in the head. A memorial service was held on July 9th, 2017 at San Francisco City Hall for the slain men, named as Wayne Chan, Michael Lefiti and Benson Louie.

The mural of musician Carlos Santana is on the exterior wall of a store at 19th Street and Mission Street in San Francisco’s Mission District. The 16-foot-wide black and white mural was painted with spray cans by local artist Mel Waters in 2014 as a tribute to Santana, who lived and attended school in San Francisco in his teens. It was repaired by the artist in 2018 after being defaced with white paint by vandals.

The blue house in French singer Maxime Le Forestier’s song San Francisco is situated at 3841 18th Street in the Mission district. The song, on his 1972 album Mon frère, recalls a time when he lived in the house in 1970 when it was a hippie commune called Hunga Dunga. It was repainted from light green to the original blue in 2011 and Le Forestier attended to apply the final ceremonial brush stroke, and a plaque placed outside reads: In 1970, Maxime Le Forestier was inspired by this blue house and composed one of his signature songs “San Francisco”

The house from the movie Mrs Doubtfire is located at 2640 Steiner Street in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights neighborhood. It was used for exterior shots as the home of the Hillard family in the 1993 film starring Robin Williams.

Twitter’s first offices were at 164 South Park Street in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood. The social networking technology company, founded in 2006 by Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey and Noah Glass, was based here until 2008. An early-stage Instagram was a tenant here later.

The Caltrain commuter rail line terminates in San Francisco at 4th and King Street Caltrain Station where there are connections to Muni bus lines, E Embarcadero historic streetcar and Muni light rail services.

The first Starbucks Coffee in San Francisco opened in March 1992 at the corner of Union and Laguna Streets in the Cow Hollow neighborhood.

The Transamerica Pyramid at 600 Montgomery Street in San Francisco with its distinctive pyramid shape is an icon of the city’s skyline. At 853 feet (or 260 meters) high, it is visible from most parts of the city and is the second-tallest building in San Francisco since losing the top spot to the Salesforce Tower in 2017.

San Francisco’s Transamerica Pyramid limits access to tenants and their approved guests only. An observation room on the 27th floor was permanently closed for security reasons many years ago and replaced by a street-level virtual observation deck on Clay Street which provides a view from the top via live video feed.

San Francisco’s tallest building is the Salesforce Tower (formerly called the Transbay Tower) skyscraper at Mission Street and 1st Street in the SoMa neighborhood. It is 1070 feet (or 326 meters) tall.

Jack Kerouac Alley in San Francisco is found on Columbus Avenue in North Beach, between Broadway and Pacific Avenue. The pedestrianized passageway was renamed in 1988 to recognize the area’s association with the Beat Generation writer who frequented the City Lights bookstore and Vesuvio Cafe bar that flank the alley entrance.

The downtown San Francisco area is not officially defined but is generally considered to refer to the city’s Financial District. The area it is often broadened to include the Union Square, Chinatown, Tenderloin, and SoMa districts.

The North Face was founded in San Francisco as a ski, camping and mountaineering mail order business in 1964. The Grateful Dead played at the official opening of its first store at 308 Columbus Avenue in San Francisco’s North Beach on October 26, 1966.

Sony Europe’s iconic 2005 bouncing balls TV commercial for its Bravia LCD televisions was shot in San Francisco at Leavenworth Street & Filbert Street, 22nd Street & Sanchez Street, and Kearny Street & Broadway. It featured thousands of brightly colored balls bouncing down steep city streets and a soundtrack of Heartbeats by José González.

Anchor Steam Beer is brewed in San Francisco by the Anchor Brewing Company at its brewery on Mariposa Street and De Haro Street in Portero Hill. The company was acquired by Japan’s Sapporo in 2017.

The fire hydrant at 20th and Church Streets in San Francisco is painted gold in recognition of its role in providing water to extinguish fires after the 1906 earthquake. The hydrant, located near the southwest corner of Mission Dolores Park, is said to have continued supplying water after others had run dry, helping to save many local structures from fire damage in the aftermath. There is a ceremonial repainting annually on the earthquake’s anniversary and a sidewalk plaque begins: Though the water mains were broken and dry on April 18, 1906 yet from this Greenberg hydrant on the following night there came a stream of water allowing the firemen to save the Mission District.

Castro Camera, Harvey Milk’s camera store in San Francisco’s Castro District, was located at 575 Castro Street between 18th and 19th Street. Milk operated the store from 1972 until his assassination in 1978 and lived in the apartment above the premises.

Venture capitalist Michael Moritz lives on Vallejo Street in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow neighborhood.

The San Francisco Giants baseball team plays its home games at Oracle Park (formerly AT&T Park) in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood.