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Bay to Breakers is an annual footrace in San Francisco, California typically on the third Sunday of May. The phrase "Bay to Breakers" reflects the fact that the race starts at the northeast end of the downtown area a few blocks from The Embarcadero (adjacent to San Francisco Bay) and runs west through the city to finish at the Great Highway (adjacent to the Pacific coast, where breakers crash ...
The seven-mile (11 km) section from Saratoga Village to the Saratoga Gap is notable for the number of bicycles climbing the hill on weekend mornings. Since 1978, the highway between downtown Saratoga and downtown Los Gatos is the route for the popular "Great Race", when over 1,000 participants run between the two towns near the end of April. [7]
The Great Highway is a four-lane divided road built in 1929 that is approximately 3.5 miles (5.6 km) long and runs next to the Pacific Ocean along to Ocean Beach on the west side of San Francisco. The Great Highway starts at Skyline Boulevard and runs north to Point Lobos Avenue and the Cliff House in the Outer Richmond neighborhood of San ...
The Great Urban Race was an annual event held from 2007 to 2014. [1] ... San Francisco, CA: May 3, 2008 Philadelphia, PA: May 17, 2008 Boston, MA: May 31, 2008 ...
Philanthropist and Levi's heir Daniel Lurie has won the hard-fought race for San Francisco mayor, ushering in a new era of leadership for a city whose voters made clear they are fed up with brazen ...
Some historians differentiate between a first Great Migration (1910–40), which saw about 1.6 million people move from mostly rural areas in the South to northern industrial cities, and a Second Great Migration (1940–70), which began after the Great Depression and brought at least five million people—including many townspeople with urban ...
The main race in 1909 ran under the auspices of the Automobile Club of Southern California.It was a little over 254 miles (409 km) long—12 laps of a course laid out over 21.18 mi (34.09 km) which included road segments of Melrose, a settlement newly annexed by Oakland, and San Leandro and Hayward—two communities south of Oakland in Alameda County.
As of the time of publication, San Francisco estimates Lurie would have 56.34% of the vote in the fourteenth round of voting and elimination, with Breed at 43.66%. With half the ballots still ...