My family took a trip to California in March 1992. When I began making PLACES pages for my website in 2004, I scanned the prints of the pictures my dad took during out one afternoon in San Francisco and made a brief PLACES page out of them.
San Francisco, with a population of about 776,000 people is the fourth largest city in the state of California. A total of about 7 million people live in the San Francisco metro area. The City of San Francisco and San Francisco County are considered a consolidated city-county. Essentially, the city and county are under a single, unified government that fills all the needs and takes all responsibilities of both city and county government.
Photo by Cliff West
The point of land at the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula was first colonized by the Spanish in 1776. At that time, the location was known as Nova Albion. It was renamed Yerba Buena by American Captain John Montgomery of the USS Portsmouth on July 9, 1846. It became San Francisco on January 30, 1847.
At 5:12 AM on the morning of April 18, 1906, an earthquake measuring 8.25 on the Richter scale shook the city for 48 seconds. Much of what survived the earthquake was destroyed in the resulting fires that followed. Over 3,000 people were killed.
Some of San Francisco’s landmarks are covered in the following posts:
Alcatraz Island
San Francisco Cable Cars
Coit Tower
TransAmerica Pyramid
Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
San Francisco Links:
City of San Francisco
National Park Service: Alcatraz Island
San Francisco Municipal Railway
TransAmerica Pyramid
Golden Gate Bridge, Highway & Transportation Department
Continue to Alcatraz Island…
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