San Quentin
San Quentin , peninsula extending into San Francisco Bay, W Calif., N of San Francisco. The state prison there was begun in 1852. San Quentin is the western terminus of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge.
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On sail this month.(San Francisco sailing information)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Sunset; 4/1/2001; ; 272 words
; Be captain for a day on San Francisco Bay * On my debut sail on San Francisco Bay at age 11, I boarded a dinghy...our boat bobbed directly toward San Quentin State Prison. A voice boomed from...Charters. Boats leave from Sausalito or San Francisco. Club Nautique. Boats ...
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Bay Of Gigs.(San Francisco Bay Area, California)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Entrepreneur; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Watch out, San Francisco! The Internet is upon you. It's...Internet entrepreneurship has made on San Francisco. The skyline is peppered with billboards...Quinn, district director of the San Francisco SBA and a San Francisco resident...
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Sailing from San Francisco.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
Magazine article from: Cruise Travel; 9/1/2004; ; 259 words
; This is in response to the San Francisco Snubbed letter in the June 2004...am a volunteer greeter at the San Francisco cruise-ship terminal. Although...basic goal is to make visiting San Francisco a happy experience, we are also...
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Western wanderings: our man in San Francisco. (resurgence of the opera in San Francisco, California)
Magazine article from: Sunset; 9/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...opera A few years ago, a friend attended the San Francisco Opera's production of Bellini's I Puritani...insist this story could have occurred only in San Francisco. This month, San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House reopens after...
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Surviving and thriving: having weathered the dot-com boom and bust of the late 1990s, the Bay Area's art community is going strong, its museums and galleries keeping pace with a wealth of innovative emerging artists. (Report From San Francisco).
Magazine article from: Art in America; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; The 1990s belonged to San Francisco, epicenter of the dot-com frenzy...But perhaps nowhere more than San Francisco did the excess of the dot-com...institutions, most notably the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which made...
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Arcadia Publishers.(San Francisco's Japantown)(San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition)(San Francisco's Fillmore District)(San Francisco's Financial District)(San Francisco's Powell Street Cable Cars)(Book review)
Magazine article from: California Bookwatch; 8/1/2006; 361 words
; ...neighborhoods. Recent arrivals covering San Francisco are no exception: they offer vintage...sources. The Japantown Task Force's SAN FRANCISCO'S JAPANTOWN (073853059X) deserves ongoing...its cultural and history background, SAN FRANCISCO'S JAPANTOWN presents vintage photos...
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San Francisco Bleat.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Reason; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Bay? Last month, I was in a bar in San Francisco's eclectic Bernal Heights neighborhood...where I usually sleep during my monthly San Francisco visits, and the first hard cider was...community-based cultural scene for which San Francisco is famous. Soon, though, the bartenders...
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San Francisco's comeback: not that long ago the commercial real estate market in San Francisco was lost in a bank of fog, with few prospects for immediate clearing. Today the outlook is completely different.(Cover Report: Commercial/Multifamily)
Magazine article from: Mortgage Banking; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...bust and the post-9/11 fallout, the San Francisco economy is recovering, although some...the biggest winner today. Tourism is San Francisco's No. 1 revenue-generating industry...increase over 2004, according to the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau...
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Bank on San Francisco: welcoming all citizens into the financial mainstream: cities are well-positioned to play a catalytic role in working work with banks, community groups, and other stakeholders to build an inclusive financial system. Bank on San Francisco is one attempt to address a serious, yet solvable, social problem.(Solutions)
Magazine article from: Government Finance Review; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; The Bank on San Francisco program won the 2008 Louisville...finance profession. Like most cities, San Francisco is a city of two different financial...This problem is not unique to San Francisco. In fact, one in four Californians...
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San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
Magazine article from: Kliatt; 11/1/2006; ; 285 words
; SMITH, Dennis. San Francisco is burning; the untold story of...8.0 on the Richter scale, shook San Francisco for 45 seconds. Buildings collapsed...the highly regarded Chief of the San Francisco Fire Department. Sullivan's death...
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San Quentin
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
SAN QUENTIN SAN QUENTIN. San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, known as the "Big House," is California's oldest penal institution. The original cell block, called...
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Chessman, Caryl
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...The execution of Caryl Chessman in the gas chamber of San Quentin Prison on May 3, 1960, ended a twelve-year struggle between...imparting the death sentence. Chessman was transferred to San Quentin Prison in California pending an appeal to the state supreme...
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Abraham Ruef
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...avenue to power. About 1888 Ruef shifted his loyalties to San Francisco's corrupt Republican political machine. As "Boss...that, allied himself with the Union Labor party movement. San Francisco was a strong union town, but the party's leadership...supervisors. In 1906 a small group led by Fremont Older of the ...
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Escorial
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...finest edifices in Europe, it was built (1563-84) as the monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial by Philip II to commemorate the Spanish victory over the French at Saint-Quentin (1557). The somber and massive pile of granite buildings, including monastery...
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Actor's Workshop, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Actor's Workshop, The. Founded in 1952 by two professors from San Francisco State College, Herbert Blau and Jules Irving, it...Seattle World's Fairs and initiated a workshop for prisoners at San Quentin. After Blau and Irving left in 1965 to head the new theatre...
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