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The Golden State Warriors NBA basketball team relocated in 2019 to the Chase Center in San Francisco from their previous home arena across the bay in Oakland. The San Francisco Dons NCAA men’s college basketball team also plays some games at the Chase Center when not playing at the Sobrato Center.

The Gap’s first store was in San Francisco’s Ingleside district at Ocean Avenue and Fairfield Way, next to the El Rey Theater. The store opened in 1969, initially selling only Levi’s jeans, records and tapes, but closed in 1974 as The Gap grew into a chain of clothing stores.

Oakland, California was named after the oak groves growing in the area, particularly until the mid 19th century. Spanish settlers referred to the area spanning present-day Emeryville, Piedmont, and parts of Oakland, as Encinal de Temescal, derived from encina, the Spanish word for the evergreen oak. Oakland was incorporated as a town in 1852 and as a city in 1854.

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 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 around September 26th to October 1st and again around December 1st to December 5th. During October and November it is a few minutes ahead. The Equation of Time explains these fluctuations, caused by the Earth’s axial tilt and its elliptical orbit around the sun. Because the orbital path is not perfectly circular, the Earth is closer to the sun at some points, causing it to speed up, lengthening the solar day between two solar noons.

Curb colors in Oakland, California, indicate the following parking restrictions: Red curbs: no stopping, standing or parking at any time. Yellow curbs: between 7 am and 6 pm, stopping restricted to loading and unloading of passengers and materials for no more than 3 minutes unless the vehicle has commercial plates. Yellow curb restrictions do not apply on Sundays and parking holidays. White curbs: between 7 am and 6 pm, stopping restricted to loading and unloading of passengers for no more than 3 minutes. Exceptions are in front of a hotel or hospital where white curb parking restrictions are in effect at all times. And in front of a place of public assembly, theater, or hall, white curb parking restrictions are in effect at all times unless the venue is closed. In which case, parking is limited to one hour or less. Green curbs: no standing or parking for longer than 12 minutes between 8 am and 6 pm. Green curb restrictions do not apply on Sundays or parking holidays. Blue curbs: parking for persons with disabilities with vehicles displaying either a valid disability placard or license plate. Parking restrictions at curbs with faded paint are still enforced. Always observe posted signs for any additional restrictions.

Mount Davidson is the highest natural point in San Francisco, at 928 feet (or 283 meters) above sea level. At the summit, there is a 103-foot (or 31.4 meter) concrete cross which is illuminated twice a year for a prayer service on Easter Sunday and on April 24th, Armenian Genocide Memorial Day.

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 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.

McCovey Cove is named in honor of former San Francisco Giants baseball player Willie McCovey. The body of water in San Francisco Bay is officially called China Basin, but the section alongside Oracle Park, the Giants’ ballpark, that lies outside right field is widely known as McCovey Cove. Credit for suggesting the name originally is given to sportswriters Mark Purdy and Leonard Koppett. Splash hits are recorded when Giants players hit home runs that land in the Cove on the fly and an electronic counter on the right field wall keeps a tally of the total since the ballpark opened in 2000. Barry Bonds was the first to hit a home run that landed in the water on May 1st, 2000.

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.

Stripe’s headquarters are located at 510 Townsend Street in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood. The payment processing technology company moved into the newly built 300,000 square foot building in 2018.

The Megabus stop for all arrivals and departures in San Francisco is on Townsend Street eastbound, at the corner of 5th Street, opposite the UserTesting building. The bus stop is one block west of the San Francisco Caltrain station.

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

Oracle Park, ballpark of the SF Giants baseball team, is on King Street, between 2nd and 3rd Streets in South Beach, San Francisco.

There are no BART stations by the Chase Center in San Francisco’s Mission Bay. The most convenient BART stop is 16th Street Mission station, from where Muni bus Route 55 runs along 16th and stops at the Chase Center. For game days and concerts Muni also operates the 78X 16th Street Arena Express from the same stop to the Chase Center approximately 2.5 hours before the start of Chase Center events and 30 minutes afterwards back to the 16th St BART station. Muni services are free during games and concerts with your Chase Center event ticket.

Residents can block their own driveway in San Francisco only if the vehicle’s license plate is registered to the building’s address and the building has two or fewer units. The vehicle must be parked parallel to the curb and a street parking permit is not required provided the vehicle fits between the curb cuts where the top of the curb begins to slope down on either side of the driveway.

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”

In 2016 the city’s Department of Public Works determined that the geographic center of San Francisco was located on Corbett Avenue near the Rooftop Elementary School Twin Peaks campus. A brass surveyor’s disc marking the approximate position was placed in the sidewalk opposite 771 Corbett Avenue but was very quickly stolen.