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Looking east from the Steiner Street pedestrian overpass. Geary Boulevard (designated as Geary Street east of Van Ness Avenue) is a major east–west 5.8-mile-long (9 km) thoroughfare in San Francisco, California, United States, beginning downtown at Market Street near Market Street's intersection with Kearny Street, and running westbound through downtown, the Civic Center area, the Western ...
Capp was secretary of the San Francisco Homestead Union, the first homestead association in San Francisco. The street runs through the lands of the association. [9] Castro Street: José Castro: A Californio leader of Mexican opposition to U.S. rule in California in the 19th century, and alcalde (mayor) of Alta California from 1835 to 1836.
Geary Street, Park & Ocean Railway (1880–1887), Market Street Railway (1887–1912), San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (1912–present) Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm ), Old gauge. 5 ft ( 1,524 mm ), converted in 1892. The Geary Street, Park and Ocean Railway was a street railway in San Francisco ...
Michelle Tanner. Tommy Turnbull. Catherine Tramell. Hope van Dyne. Venom (Sony's Spider-Man Universe) Mr. Wong (fictional detective) Zatanna. Categories: Fictional characters from San Francisco Bay Area.
The French Hospital of San Francisco, officially La Societe Francaise de Bienfaisance Mutuelle, was founded in 1851 as San Francisco's first private hospital. [2] It was originally located on Rincon Hill. Later locations were Bryant at 5th Streets (1856), and Point Lobos Avenue (now Geary) (1895). A new French Hospital was dedicated on May 4, 1963.
The Hotel Union, formerly the Rhodema Hotel and the San Carlos Hotel, at 811 Geary Street in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The building is a contributing building in the Uptown Tenderloin Historic District which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. [1] The building is most notable for being the home ...
At the time of founding on August 13, 1849, Chief Malachi Fallon had a force of one deputy captain, three sergeants, and thirty officers. [1] In 1851, Albert Bernard de Russailh wrote about the nascent San Francisco police force: As for the police, I have only one thing to say. The police force is largely made up of ex-bandits, and naturally ...
Mutanen was attacked and dragged on a street in Churchill. The bear was part of an annual migration to Hudson Bay. Due to a lack of ice on the bay, the bear wandered into the town. [205] Conrado Mones, 29, male: September 27, 1982: Captive: New York City: Mones was mauled after climbing three fences in New York City's Central Park Zoo to enter ...