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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.

The two peaks of Twin Peaks are the North peak, known as Eureka Peak, and the taller South peak, which is called Noe Peak. Standing at 922 feet, Noe Peak is the second tallest hill in San Francisco after Mount Davidson.

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.

A cast stone sculpture of British nurse Florence Nightingale stands outside Laguna Honda Hospital in Twin Peaks, San Francisco. Nightingale is widely credited as being one of the pioneers of modern nursing. A plaque on the statue reads: In memory of Florence Nightingale, ‘The Founder of Professional Nursing’. Designed and created by the late David Edstrom. Dedicated National Hospital Day, May 12, 1939

Christmas Tree Point in San Francisco is where a large illuminated Christmas tree was erected annually from 1927 for a few years by a local group that included the San Francisco Examiner newspaper and other community organizations. The name endured and the promontory on the northeast edge of Twin Peaks is a popular vantage point with views over the city.

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.

Sutro Tower is a prominent three-pronged TV and radio antenna tower in San Francisco. Located near Mount Sutro on one of the city’s highest points, the red and white metal tower was San Francisco’s tallest structure from completion in 1973 until the Salesforce Tower was finished in 2017.

Twitter’s headquarters are located at 1355 Market Street in San Francisco’s SoMa/Tenderloin neighborhood. The social networking technology company moved into the complex, known as Market Square, in 2012.

The AMC Metreon 16 movie theater at Mission & 4th Street in SoMa, San Francisco has a large screen theater featuring IMAX with Laser.

There is a parking garage at MacArthur BART station just off MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland. Payment is required on weekdays from 4 am to 3 pm but parking is free on weekends and holidays. Parking is full by around 7 am on weekdays. Parking permits can be booked online in advance or the daily parking fee can be paid at the Addfare / Parking Validation machine in the station using your stall number.

Blue Bottle Coffee opened its first cafe in January 2005 in a garage at 315 Linden Street, in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley. Located in an alley off Gough Street, between Hayes and Fell Streets, the kiosk cafe is still open today. Blue Bottle Coffee has since expanded, opening more locations in San Francisco, and other cities including New York, LA, and Tokyo.

Cupid’s Span is a sculpture in San Francisco created by husband-and-wife artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Installed in November 2002 in Rincon Park on the Embarcadero, against the backdrop of the Bay Bridge, the 60-foot-high sculpture depicts a bow and arrow partially embedded in the ground and is thought to represent Cupid’s arrow.

Joe DiMaggio married Marilyn Monroe on January 14th, 1954 at San Francisco City Hall in the chambers of Municipal Judge Charles H. Perry. After the civil ceremony they posed for photographs on the steps outside Saints Peter and Paul Church across from Washington Square in North Beach. The marriage lasted 274 days before Marilyn filed for divorce.

Most street parking meters in San Francisco operate from 9 am to 6 pm Monday through Saturday, so street parking on Sunday is free, except in the following areas: Fisherman’s Wharf The Embarcadero The Special Event Area around Oracle Park and Chase Center during events such as baseball and basketball games

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.

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.

San Francisco property tax can be paid in person at The Office of the Treasurer & Tax Collector in City Hall Monday through Friday (except holidays) from 8 am to 5 pm. Wait times at the office are longer around delinquency dates. Property taxes are payable in two equal installments, the first is due November 1st and delinquent after December 10th, and the second is due on March 1st and delinquent after April 10th.

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.