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The stadium has hosted Oakland Raiders football between 1966-81 &1995-today, & Oakland A's baseball since 1968. On May 1, 1991, Rickey Henderson stole his 939th career base becoming an all-time leader
This ballpark has been home to the San Francisco Giants since it opened in 2000. Barry Bonds passed Babe Ruth on the all-time list when he hit his 715th home run here on May 28th, 2006.
In 1956 founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti published Alan Ginsberg's beatnik classic poem "Howl", and faced obscenity charges for it. In a landmark ruling, the poem was protected by the First Amendment.
Operating since 1909, the Double Play is one of the few visible reminders of the long-gone San Francisco Seals, a baseball team from the Pacific Coast League.
Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of the television, had these steps dedicated in his honor near the house he lived in while he was developing the first all-electric "television system" in the late 1920s.
Born in 1906, Philo Farnsworth demonstrated his first all-electric television system in the late 1920s & received the patent in 1930. Over his life he would earn more than 300 U.S. and foreign patents
Lefty O'Doul hit .349 in an 11-year Major League career. He's best remembered for playing for & later managing the Seals. One of the Seals he managed was Joe DiMaggio He opened this restaurant in 1958
Opening in 1960, Candlestick Park is one of the NFL's older arenas. It has been home of the San Francisco 49ers since 1971 and on Aug. 29, 1966, the Beatles played their last-ever U.S. concert here.
The Seals were a Pacific Coast League baseball team from 1903-57, and they played here from 1931-57. The most famous Seal is undoubtedly Joe DiMaggio, who hit in 61 straight games for the 1933 Seals.
Silent film comic Fatty Arbuckle's career crashed down when a party he hosted at this hotel resulted in the death of young actress Virginia Rappe in 1921. President Ford was also shot at here in 1975.
The Octagon House was built by William McElroy in 1861. His letter "To Future Ages" and newspapers accompanying it, which were discovered in a box under the stairs during restoration, are on display.
Camera Obscura was built by Floyd Jennings in 1946 as an attraction for nearby Playland-at-the-Beach. About 10 years later, the building was modified to look like a camera that a tourist left behind.
Castro Camera was operated by Harvey Milk from 1972 until his assassination in 1978. During the 1970s the store became the center of the area's gay community as well as campaign headquarters for Milk.
Fort Point was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1853 and 1861 to prevent entrance of a hostile fleet into San Francisco Bay and was occupied in WWII in order to protect the Bay.
Built in 1939, the park was a result of President Roosevelt's policy of providing jobs to architects & artists during the Great Depression & was featured in the 1971 Clint Eastwood film Dirty Harry.
Lefty O'Doul hit .349 in an 11-year Major League career. This bridge bears his name, a testament of the impact he made on this community. O'Doul was born in San Francisco in 1897 and died here in 1969
Robert Stroud, "The Birdman of Alcatraz" spent 17 years in cell #42. Segregated from the prisoners, he turned to birds for company. He was the inspiration for the 1962 movie starring Burt Lancaster.
The Golden Gate Bridge was the longest suspension bridge span in the world when it was completed in 1937, & has become an internationally recognized symbol of San Francisco and CA.
Opened in 1918, the San Francisco waterfront piers played a crucial role in the Pacific theater during WWII. San Fran's waterfront became a military logistics center in support of the Pacific theater.
From 1908 to 1921, this eight story, Second Renaissance Revival structure in San Francisco's financial district served as headquarters for Bank of Italy (later renamed Bank of America).
On April 15, 1974 kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst took part in the robbery of the Hibernia Bank that once occupied this location The robbers drove off with more than $10,000 after injuring 2 bystanders
Patty Hearst spent her first week in captivity in this house in Feb. 1974 as a prisoner of urban revolutionaries who called themselves the "Symbionese Liberation Army." She would later join the SLA.
Opened on October 1, 2009, the museum features the life and legacy of Walt Disney. The museum retrofitted and expanded three existing historic buildings on the Presidio’s Main Post.
Opening in 1898, The Marketplace provides a distinctive space for bringing together the greater Bay Area's agricultural wealth and renowned specialty food purveyors under one roof.
Founded in 1969 by the noted physicist Dr. Frank Oppenheimer, the Exploratorium offers visitors exhibits, webcasts, websites and events to explore & understand the world around them.
Happy Hollow originally opened in 1961. The first merry-go-round that came in 1964 is still in use in the park today.
This park first opened in 1850 featuring an exact replica of the building in which the first state legislature met.In 1971 the south end of the park became known as San Jose History park.
The observatory was constructed from 1876-1887 from the help of James Lick. James Lick was buried under the telescope with a brass tablet that reads “Here lies the body of James Lick.”
