Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/21

... that Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland is the site of a memorial (pictured) to the victims of the Jonestown tragedy?
... that the Healdsburg Memorial Bridge (pictured) in Healdsburg, California, was the first steel bridge across the Russian River?
... that Save The Bay helped stop San Bruno Mountain from being destroyed to create landfill along 27 miles (43 km) of San Francisco Bay?
... that Elias Abraham Rosenberg, a peddler from San Francisco, became an adviser to King Kalākaua of Hawaii due to his purported ability to predict the future?
... that Bob Wasserman served as police chief, city councilman, and mayor of the city of Fremont, California?
... that Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, who later wrote The Art of Beowulf, was one of a group of University of California professors who at first refused on principle to sign the loyalty oath in 1949?

January - March 2012

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