A consolidated city-county, mainland San Francisco is located on the tip of the San Francisco Peninsula. Insular San Francisco includes several islands in the San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Strait, notably Alcatraz, Treasure Island, and the Farallon Islands 27 miles offshore in the Pacific Ocean and also most of the privately owned Red Rock Island near the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. (See Islands of San Francisco Bay) The city is a focal point of the San Francisco Bay Area, and forms part of the greater San Jose-San Francisco-O ...

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Long-time residents of the Mission District trace the origins of the San Francisco burrito back to the 1960s. The owner of La Taqueria claims that his were the first, and that he designed the style of assembly that then became popular; if his claim is true, he dates the birth of the San Francisco burrito to September 29, 1969 [4]. However, like most such claims, this one is debated by others who claim to remember similar burritos from earlier in the decade. If the claims of the owner of El Faro are to believed, the first San Francisco burrit ...

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San Francisco's Chinatown was the port of entry for early Taishanese and Zhongshanese Chinese immigrants from the southern Guangdong province of China from the 1850s to the 1900s. The Chinatown in particular was a stronghold for the Taishanese community. The majority of shopkeepers and restaurant owners in San Francisco were predominantly Taishanese and male. They came as laborers to build California's growing railway networks, most famously the Transcontinental Railroad or as miners either employed or independent miners hoping to strike it ...

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San Francisco's Chinatown is located in downtown. It is roughly bordered by Powell Street and the Nob Hill District on the West. On the east is Kearny Street and The City's Financial District. On the north is North Beach and Green Street and Columbus Street. On the south is Bush Street and the Union Square area. Despite its decline, it has been slowly expanding northward into the North Beach neighborhood north of Green and Columbus Street. Within Chinatown there are two major thoroughfares: Grant Avenue, which has the famous Dragon ga ...

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San Francisco's Chinatown is North America's largest Chinatown and the most historic and oldest of Chinatowns. Established in the 1850s, it has been featured in popular culture, such as in film, music, photography, and literature. Chinatown has been experiencing some decline over the years due to the cropping up of newer Chinatown communities in the Richmond and Sunset Districts of San Francisco, possibly from the revitalization of Oakland's Chinatown – only 10 miles away – in recent decades, and from the development of Asi ...

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The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake at San Francisco, California, estimated to be approximately 7.8 on the Richter Scale [1], on the early morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906. Foreshocks and the main quake occurred at about 5:12am along the San Andreas Fault, with an epicenter close to the city. Its violent shocks were felt from Oregon to Los Angeles, and inland as far as central Nevada. The earthquake and fire would go down as one of the worst natural disasters to hit a major city in United Stat ...

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The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is one of the world's leading centers of health sciences research, patient care, and education. UCSF's Medical, Dental, Nursing, and Graduate Schools are among the top health science professional schools in the world. The UCSF Medical Center is consistently ranked among the top 10 hospitals in the United States. Patients from around the world with rare and difficult diseases are referred to UCSF for treatment. Some of UCSF's most renowned treatment centers include kidney and li ...

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Some of the most notable landmarks are the Transamerica Pyramid and Golden Gate Bridge. San Francisco California - Contemporary life. In the years following World War II, San Francisco accelerated its transformation into a center of alternative culture and lifestyles. Movements instrumental in this change include the beat generation or beatniks, the San Francisco Renaissance in the 1950s, hippie culture, women's liberation, gay civil rights, the Summer of Love in the Haight Ashbury, the rise of a substanti ...

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San Francisco California - Roads and highways. Because of its unique geography —making "beltways" somewhat impractical— and the "Freeway Revolt" of the late 1950s, San Francisco is one of the few cities in the US including Boston and New York City that has opted for European style arterial thoroughfares instead of a large network of major highways. From San Francisco, the Bay Bridge is the only direct automobile link to the East Bay. Similarly, the Golden ...

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Native Americans inhabited the San Francisco Bay Area at least 10,000 years ago; the most recent inhabitants prior to European settlement were the Yelamu. By the middle of the 19th century, disease and warfare with European settlers had virtually wiped out the indigenous tribes.1234 The first European to reach the San Francisco Bay was the Spanish explorer Don Gaspar de Portolà, in 1770. The first Spanish mission, Mission San Francisco de Asis, was established six years later. Though Spain held the port until the Mexican revolution, ...

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The city is served by San Francisco Unified School District, the Archdiocese of San Francisco's dozens of Catholic elementary and high schools, and many other private schools. Despite its limited geographical space, San Francisco is home to a multitude of colleges and universities. Public colleges and universities include: University of California, San Francisco, primarily a graduate level health-sciences school, located north of Forest Hill San Francisco State University located in the southwest corner of ...

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The city is served by San Francisco Unified School District, the Archdiocese of San Francisco's dozens of Catholic elementary and high schools, and many other private schools. Despite its limited geographical space, San Francisco is home to a multitude of colleges and universities. Public colleges and universities include: University of California, San Francisco, primarily a graduate level health-sciences school, located north of Forest Hill San Francisco State University located in the southwest corner of ...

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Two key technologies that made the San Francisco burrito possible are the large flour tortilla and tortilla steamers, which together increase the flexibility and stretch of the tortilla. The tortilla steamer saturates the gluten-heavy tortilla with moisture and heat, which increase the capacity of the tortilla to stretch without breaking. This in turn allows for the massive size of the San Francisco burrito. Corn tortillas, the original indigenous pre-Colombian form of the tortilla, cannot achieve either the size or the flexibility of the fl ...

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Native Americans inhabited the San Francisco Bay Area at least 10,000 years ago; the most recent inhabitants prior to European settlement were the Yelamu. By the middle of the 19th century, disease and warfare with European settlers had virtually wiped out the indigenous tribes. The first European to reach the San Francisco Bay was the Spanish explorer Don Gaspar de Portolà,in 1770. The first Spanish mission, Mission San Francisco de Asis, was established six years later. A small military fort was also established in what is now the ...

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Native Americans inhabited the San Francisco Bay Area at least 10,000 years ago; the most recent inhabitants prior to European settlement were the Yelamu. By the middle of the 19th century, disease and warfare with European settlers had virtually wiped out the indigenous tribes. The first European to reach the San Francisco Bay was the Spanish explorer Don Gaspar de Portolà,in 1770. The first Spanish mission, Mission San Francisco de Asis, was established six years later. A small military fort was also established in what is now the ...

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San Francisco California - Roads and highways. Because of its unique geography —making "beltways" somewhat impractical— and the "Freeway Revolt" of the late 1950s, San Francisco is one of the few cities in the US including Boston and New York City that has opted for European style arterial thoroughfares instead of a large network of major highways. From San Francisco, the Bay Bridge is the only direct automobile link to the East Bay. Similarly, the Golden ...

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Native Americans inhabited the San Francisco Bay Area at least 10,000 years ago; the most recent inhabitants prior to European settlement were the Yelamu. By the middle of the 19th century, disease and warfare with European settlers had virtually wiped out the indigenous tribes. The first European to reach the San Francisco Bay was the Spanish explorer Don Gaspar de Portolà,in 1770. The first Spanish mission, Mission San Francisco de Asis, was established six years later. A small military fort was also established in what is now the ...

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Some of the most notable landmarks are the Transamerica Pyramid and Golden Gate Bridge. San Francisco California - Contemporary life. In the years following World War II, San Francisco accelerated its transformation into a center of alternative culture and lifestyles. Movements instrumental in this change include the beat generation or beatniks, the San Francisco Renaissance in the 1950s, hippie culture, women's liberation, gay civil rights, the Summer of Love in the Haight Ashbury, the rise of a substanti ...

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Some of the most notable landmarks are the Transamerica Pyramid and Golden Gate Bridge. San Francisco California - Contemporary life. In the years following World War II, San Francisco accelerated its transformation into a center of alternative culture and lifestyles. Movements instrumental in this change include the beat generation or beatniks, the San Francisco Renaissance in the 1950s, hippie culture, women's liberation, gay civil rights, the Summer of Love in the Haight Ashbury, the rise of a substanti ...

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