Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/20

... that Bay Area native Robert D. San Souci was a consultant to Disney Studios when he suggested that they turn the legend of Hua Mulan (pictured) into a film, released in 1998 as Mulan?
... that after moving into the Bethesda Home for Boys at age seven, current San Francisco 49er Demarcus Dobbs moved in with his high school football coach's family in 2005?
... that, in 1980, U.S. presidential candidate John Anderson wrote in the San Francisco Sentinel that, if elected, he would end federal government discrimination based on sexual orientation?
... that future California Court of Appeal Justice Christopher Cottle attended UC Berkeley for one day before transferring to Stanford, where he was a pre-medical student and captain of the football team?
... that the opening of San Francisco's Tiffany Building included a roast pig and a lion dance for good luck?

September - December 2011

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