The nearest BART station to the University of California, Berkeley is Downtown Berkeley, which is served by trains running to and from Richmond. The campus is a block east of the station. Read more...
YouTube’s headquarters are located at 901 Cherry Avenue in San Bruno, California. The Google-owned video-sharing platform moved into the offices in 2008. They were the former corporate headquarters of The Gap, Inc. Read more...
Patty Hearst was kidnapped at gunpoint from her apartment at 2603 Benvenue Avenue in Berkeley on the evening of February 4th, 1974 by an urban guerrilla group called The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). Hearst, granddaughter of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, was found in San Francisco 19 months later and arrested for crimes committed with members of the SLA, including Read more...
Because it was the first school in the University of California system, before the UC system expanded to other California cities, the Berkeley campus was known simply as the University of California and often shortened to Cal. UC Berkeley’s sports teams are called the California Golden Bears and in athletic competition referred to as California or Cal. Read more...
The first Peets Coffee store was opened by Alfred Peet in 1966 on Vine Street and Walnut Street in Berkeley, California. The location remains open today as a Peet’s coffee shop, but originally just sold coffee beans rather than drinks. Read more...
The San Bruno pipeline explosion occurred near the intersection of Glenview Drive and Earl Avenue in the Crestmoor residential neighborhood of San Bruno, California. On the evening on September 9th, 2010, an underground natural gas pipeline owned by Pacific Gas & Electric exploded and fire quickly engulfed nearby houses. Eight people died and 38 houses were destroyed. Read more...
Tolls on the Richmond–San Rafael Bridge (also called the John F McCarthy Memorial Bridge) are collected in the westbound direction towards San Rafael at the toll plaza on the east side of the bridge. Read more...
The Daily Californian is the student-run newspaper covering the University of California, Berkeley campus and the city of Berkeley. The newspaper has been independent of the university since 1971 and is run entirely by current or recently-graduated UC Berkeley students and published by the nonprofit Independent Berkeley Students Publishing Company, Inc. Known informally as The Daily Cal, it is published Read more...
You can take an elevator up the Campanile (also known as the Sather Tower) followed by 38 steps to its 200-foot-high observation deck. It offers 360-degree views of the UC Berkeley Campus and, on clear days, as far as Oakland and San Francisco. The tower is open from 10 am daily and admission charges apply except for UC Berkeley students, Read more...
The Campanile at Berkeley, also known as the Sather Tower, is 307 feet (or 94 meters) tall. Completed in 1915, the Gothic Revival-style tower, designed by architect John Galen Howard, is the tallest structure on the UC Berkeley campus and is the third-tallest clock and bell tower in the world. The tower’s observation platform is located at the 200-foot level. Read more...
The element berkelium is named after the city of Berkeley, California. Berkelium was first produced in December 1949 by Stanley Thompson, Albert Ghiorso, and Glenn Seaborg in the 60-inch cyclotron housed at the University of California at Berkeley’s Crocker Laboratory. They bombarded americium-241 with helium nuclei (alpha particles) for several hours in the cyclotron to synthesize tiny amounts of the Read more...
UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business is named after the late Walter A Haas Sr, a Berkeley alumnus and former president of Levi Strauss & Co. In 1989, his children donated $15 million, through the Walter & Elise Hass Fund, towards the construction of the school’s current building, at the time the largest donation ever made to Berkeley. In recognition Read more...
The closest parking to the Greek Theatre at Berkeley is a few minutes walk away at the Stadium Parking Garage under Maxwell Family Field on Gayley Road between Cal Memorial Stadium and the Greek Theatre. Event parking charges range from $25 – $45. Read more...
SFO has an outdoor terrace and observation deck, located post-security at the end of the International Terminal, Boarding Area G. It is open 7 am to 11:30 pm daily, and is also accessible to United passengers in Terminal 3 via a secure connecting walkway. Terminal 2 also has an observation deck which is located before security so it is publicly Read more...
The official mascot of the University of California, Berkeley is Oski the Bear, who represents the university’s California Golden Bears sports teams. Oski originated as a cartoon-strip character in Cal’s student newspaper, The Daily Californian, and made his real-life debut on September 27th, 1941, during Cal Football’s victory in a season opener against the Saint Mary’s Gaels. Previously, Cal had Read more...
Muir Woods has chargeable parking which must be booked in advance online or by phone for a specific 30 minute arrival window. You can park until closing and it is advisable to print or download your reservation beforehand as there is no wi-fi or cell phone coverage nearby. Read more...
Before clearing security, you can walk between all terminals at San Francisco Airport or catch the airport’s AirTrain. After clearing security, access to other terminals without exiting and re-entering security is only available via walkway connectors between: Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and International Terminal “A” Gates. Terminal 2, Terminal 3, and the International Terminal “G” Gates. Read more...
San Francisco International Airport has three domestic terminals, numbered 1 through 3, and one international terminal. Terminal 1, known as Harvey Milk Terminal 1, was formerly called the South Terminal, Terminal 2 was previously the Central Terminal, and Terminal 3 was formerly the North Terminal and is exclusively used by United Airlines domestic flights. San Francisco International Airport departure terminals Read more...
The Grand Hyatt at SFO hotel is the on-airport hotel at San Francisco International Airport and connected to the terminals by the AirTrain. Off airport, the nearest hotels to SFO are Aloft San Francisco Airport and The Westin San Francisco Airport, neighboring hotels located a 2-mile (or 4-minute) drive away in Millbrae. Both offer free 24-hour airport shuttle service. Read more...