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The Daily News. The Daily News, later titled The San Francisco News, was a newspaper published in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1903 by E. W. Scripps as a four-page penny paper. [3] [4] In its early years, it was the smallest of the several newspapers in San Francisco. It advertised itself as the "friend of the working man."
January 9, 1847. Ceased publication. June 2, 1891. Headquarters. San Francisco, California. Free online archives. cdnc.ucr.edu (1849–1891) Alta California Building, 1851. The Alta California or Daily Alta California (often miswritten Alta Californian or Daily Alta Californian) was a 19th-century San Francisco newspaper.
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including the San Francisco Bay. The Association of Bay Area Governments defines the Bay Area as including the nine counties that border the estuaries of San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and Suisun Bay: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma, and San Francisco.
N2378 [6] San Francisco State University ( San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco. It was established in 1899 as the San Francisco State Normal School and is part of the California State University system. It offers 120 bachelor's degree programs, 106 master's degree programs, and 3 doctoral ...
Candlestick Park. / 37.71361°N 122.38611°W / 37.71361; -122.38611. Candlestick Park was an outdoor stadium on the West Coast of the United States, located in San Francisco's Hunters Point area. The stadium was originally the home of Major League Baseball 's San Francisco Giants, who played there from 1960 until 1999, after which the ...
Painted ladies. Coordinates: 37°46′35″N 122°25′59″W. "Painted Ladies" near Alamo Square, San Francisco, California. In American architecture, painted ladies are Victorian and Edwardian houses and buildings repainted, starting in the 1960s, in three or more colors that embellish or enhance their architectural details.
18th century. Las Californias is established in 1768 by New Spain, encompassing the Bay Area. Gaspar de Portolà arrives in the Bay Area in 1769. Mission San Francisco de Asís and El Presidio Real de San Francisco are founded in 1776 in Yerba Buena. Baptisms of the Yelamu by Spanish missionaries begin in 1777.
Hundreds of San Diego homes and businesses were damaged or ruined in devastating floods after punishing rainfall fell Monday during a 'thousand-year storm.' 'Thousand-year storm' leaves San Diego ...