SAN FRANCISCO -- Venture deep inside the new skyway of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and it becomes clear that the bridge's engineers have planned for the long term. At intervals inside the elevated roadway's box girders -- which have the closed-in feel of a submarine, if a submarine were made of concrete -- are anchor blocks, called...
After the 1906 earthquake, refugees lived in tents. But as winter rains approached, more than 5,000 cottages were built by union carpenters to house 15,000 of the 250,000 people who had been left homeless. Two green 10-foot-by-14-foot buildings tucked near the Main Post at the Presidio are survivors of what are now called earthquake shacks. LOUISE...
Last Friday, a group of about 60 writers, artists, Telegraph Hill residents and community activists gathered in a North Beach art gallery to hear seven poets wax lyrical about that oh-so-San Francisco landmark, Coit Tower -- and protest a proposed plan by city officials to open the top floor for private parties. Lincoln Bergman, a San Francisco...
San Francisco (spansk for "Sankt Frans") er en amerikansk by i delstaten Californien. Byen er med sine 805.235(2010) indbyggere Californiens fjerde største. San Francisco indgår dog i en stor metropol kaldet San Francisco Bay Area med hele 7 millioner beboere. San Francisco er kendt for månedlange tågebanker, stejle bakker og byens liberale kulturelle, seksuelle og politiske identitet. San Francisco fik i 2007 stor landspolitisk indflydelse med valget af Nancy Pelosi som speaker i den amerikanske kongres; også Dianne Feinstein, den ene af Californiens to US-senatorer, er fra byen.
I 1776, koloniserede spanierne toppen af San Francisco halvøen. Som et resultat af Guldfeberen i Californien i 1848, kom byen ind i en periode med stor vækst. Efter at være blevet ødelagt af jordskælv og efterfølgende brand i 1906, blev byen hurtigt genopbygget. Fold ud