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San Francisco (Disambiguation) San Francisco has several meanings: San Francisco, California is a city in California, USA. * The San Francisco Bay adjoins the city, and the San Francisco Bay Area is the surrounding metropolitan region. * The University of San Francisco, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco State University, and City College of San Francisco are all schools in the city. * ''San Francisco (movie)'', a 1936 film set in the city, featuring a song of the same name. * The "San Francisco" song popularized by Scott McKenzie in 1967 urged visitors to the city to "be sure to wear flowers in your hair." Another song with the same title was performed by Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson in 1995. It is the Spanish name for Saint Francis. The San Francisco volcanic field is an area of volcanoes in Arizona, USA, not associated with the city. * San Francisco Mountain is the highest volcano in this field. San Francisco, Puerto Rico is a town in Puerto Rico. San Francisco, New Mexico is a town in New Mexico, USA. San Francisco, Texas is a town in Texas, USA. San Francisco, Australia is a town in Australia. San Francisco, Argentina is a town in Argentina. San Francisco, Pampanga is a town in the Province of Pampanga in the Philippines. Category:Disambiguation More... San Francisco Bay The San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary in which water draining approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. Technically, the Sacramento River flows into Suisun Bay, which flows through the Carquinez Strait to meet with the Napa River at the entrance to San Pablo Bay, which connects at its south end to San Francisco Bay, although the entire group of interconnected bays are often referred to as "the San Francisco Bay." San Francisco Bay is located in the US state of California, surrounded by a contiguous region known as the San Francisco Bay Area, dominated by the big cities San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose. Size The Bay covers somewhere between 400http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist9/mcgloin.html and 1600http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/cpr/watershed/sanfrancisco/sfb_html/sfbenv.html square miles, depending on which sub-bays (such as San Pablo Bay), estuaries, wetlands, and so on are included in the measurement. The main part of the Bay measures 3 to 12 miles (5 to 20 km) wide east-to-west and somewhere between 48 mi (77 km)¹ and 60 mi (97 km)² north-to-south. One difficulty in obtaining accurate measurements is that the wetlands and inlets of the bay have been gradually and deliberately filled in, changing the Bay's size since the mid-1800s by as much as one third or even more. Recently, large areas of wetlands have been restored, further confusing the issue of the Bay's size. Despite its value as a waterway and harbor, the many thousands of acres (several km²) of marshy wetlands forming the edges of the bay were considered for many years to be wasted space. As a result, soil excavated for building projects or dredged from channels was often dumped onto the wetlands and into other parts of the bay as landfill. From the mid-1800s through the late 1900s, more than a third of the original bay was More... San Francisco Peninsula The San Francisco peninsula separates the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. On its northern tip is the city of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge leading over to the northern shores. On its southern end is part of Santa Clara County, including the cities of Palo Alto, Los Altos, Mountain View, and Sunnyvale. Most of the peninsula is covered by the entirety of San Mateo County. Locally, "the Peninsula" is used to refer to only the parts south of, and excluding, the city of San Francisco, roughly equivalent to the area served by the 650 area code, or sometimes to San Mateo County only. A number of major thoroughfares run North-South: El Camino Real (CA-82) and Highway 101 on the east side along the bay, Interstate 280 (California) down the center, Skyline Boulevard (CA-35) along the crest of the Santa Cruz Mountains, and Highway 1 on the west along the Pacific. The east side of the peninsula is largely urban, forming a commuter area for San Francisco, San Jose to the south, Silicon Valley, Palo Alto and Stanford University. Three bridges, the Dumbarton Bridge, the San Mateo bridge, and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge cross San Francisco Bay from the peninsula. Along the center line of the Peninsula is the northern half of the Santa Cruz Mountains, formed by the action of plate tectonics along the San Andreas fault. In the middle of the Peninsula along the fault is the Crystal Springs reservoir, which inspired the James Bond movie, ''A View to a Kill''. Just north of the Crystal Springs reservoir is the San Andreas reservoir after which the famous fault was named. Category:California geography Category:Peninsulas Category:San Francisco Bay Area More... San Francisco 49ers The San Francisco 49ers are a National Football League team that plays in San Francisco, California. They tie the Dallas Cowboys with the record for most Super Bowl victories (5). The team's headquarters and practice facility are located in Santa Clara, California. :Founded: 1946, as part of the All-America Football Conference; joined the NFL in 1950 as part of the league merger. :Home field: Monster Park (1971 - present) (formerly named Candlestick Park (1959-1995), 3Com Park (1995-2002), San Francisco Stadium at Candlestick Point (2002-2004)) :Previous home field: Kezar Stadium (1946 - 1970). :Ownership: Denise DeBartolo York, John York, The DeBartolo Corporation :General Manager: Scot McCloughan (2005-), officially "VP of Player Personnel" :Head coach: Mike Nolan (2005-) :Uniform colors: Cardinal Red and 49ers Gold, Black trim. Home uniforms: Gold pants and red jerseys. Road uniforms: Gold pants and white jerseys. :Helmet design: Metallic Gold helmet with intertwined "SF" in white on red oval with gold and black trim. Black-red-black helmet striping. Red facemask. :League championships won: Super Bowls XVI, XIX, XXIII, XXIV, XXIX. Have never lost a Super Bowl. Team with the most Super Bowl wins without a loss. Franchise history The San Francisco 49ers have the distinction of being the first major-league professional sports franchise on the West Coast. The 49ers entered professional football in 1946 and matured, nationally and locally, when the club was granted a National League franchise in 1950. The team earned its name from the surge of goldminers to the San Francisco area during 1849, thus the nickname the San Francisco 49ers. It is the only name the team has been affiliated with and San Francisco is the only city in which it has resided. The 49ers won five Super Bowls, four in the 1980s, and are considered The Team of the Eighties (the team had never won an NFL or Super More... San Francisco Examiner The ''San Francisco Examiner'' is a daily newspaper in San Francisco, California, where it has been published continuously since 1865, beginning with the name ''The Daily Examiner''. William Randolph Hearst took over ''The Daily Examiner'' in 1887 (at age 23) from his father, George Hearst, who by some accounts is said to have accepted it as payment for a gambling debt. The paper was subsequently renamed ''The San Francisco Examiner.'' Under Hearst, the paper's popularity increased greatly, with the help of such writers as Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain and the San Francisco born Jack London. Sales were helped by the Examiner's own version of yellow journalism, printing scandal and satire, as well as helping build support for the Spanish American war and the annexation of the Philippines. After the great earthquake and fire of 1906 destroyed much of San Franciso, ''The San Francisco Examiner'' and its erstwhile rival, the ''San Francisco Chronicle,'' brought out a joint edition. For 35 years starting in 1965(?) the ''The San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner'' operated under a Joint Operating Agreement whereby ''The Chronicle'' published a morning paper and ''The San Francisco Examiner'' published an afternoon paper. In 2000 Ted Fang obtained the ''Examiner''s name, its archives, 35 delivery trucks and a subsidy of $66 million (over two years) as part of the Hearst corporation's acquisition of the ''San Francisco Chronicle''. The last day the Hearst Corporation published the ''Examiner'' was November 21, 2000. Soon the ''Examiner'' shrank drastically in size, becoming tabloid format. The Chronicle Publishing Company, owner of the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' newspaper until 2000, has been a privately-held, family-run company since the DeYoung family first published the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' in 1865. On September 12, 2001, the front page of the ''Examiner'' featured a photo of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on fire as the result of the September More... San Francisco (Disambiguation) I think Mission Delores should be replaced by Mission Dolores, but, though Dolores has more hits in Google, there are lots of references in Google to Mission Delores, so I hesitate to change this. I wat there in 1992 and I'd swear it was Dolores ("pains" in Spanish), but I'm not quite sure. ---- I believe you are correct. I will go ahead and change it. ---- What's the copyright status of that image? Did the submitter take the image? Is it from a public-domain source? Please clarify. Yes, the image was taken from the top of my roof about two hours ago and when I uploaded it, I indicated that I gave up any rights to the image. sfmontyo :Thanks. In the case of images, the standard practice seems to be that you should add a caption under the image saying where the image came from and its copyright status (something like "Image taken by Joeseph Bloggs 2/3/45. Copyright assigned to Wikipedia by photographer"). It's a terrific image, BTW. --Robert Merkel More... 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