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 Read more...
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. Read more...
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 Read more...
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 Read more...
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. Read more...
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 Read more...
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. Read more...
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. Read more...
There are no BART stations near 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. On game days and concerts, Muni also operates the 78X 16th Street Arena Express from the same stop to the Chase Read more...
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 Read more...
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 Read more...
Most towed vehicles in San Francisco go to the City and County of San Francisco Impound on 7th Street, between Harrison Street and Bryant Street, which is open 24 hours a day. The facility is operated by the City’s contractor, Auto Return, and confirmation that a vehicle is there can be made online at autoreturn.com or by calling 415-865-8200. To Read more...
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 Read more...
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. Read more...
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. Read more...
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. Read more...
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. Read more...
The original 7 hills of San Francisco, in order of descending height are: Mount Davidson Twin Peaks Mount Sutro (or Lone Mountain on some lists) Nob Hill Russian Hill Telegraph Hill Rincon Hill San Francisco has many more than seven hills but the list is thought to have been created as an attempt to emulate Rome, the original City of Read more...