Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/54
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- ... that Jane Baker, a former cooking show host and community organizer, became the first female Mayor of San Mateo, California?
- ... that Indonesian sociologist Mely G. Tan participated in student protests at the University of California, Berkeley until warned that she could be deported?
- ... that the houseboat Vallejo (pictured), made an icon of Bay Area culture by artist Jean Varda and philosopher Alan Watts in the 1960s, originally served as a passenger ferry in Portland, Oregon in the 1870s?
July/August 2011