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Robert Sidney was the second son of Sir Henry Sidney, was a statesman of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. He was also a patron of the arts and a poet. His mother, Mary Sidney née Dudley, was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I and a sister of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, an advisor and favourite of the Queen.
Portola Drive is the extension of Market Street into the south and western portion of San Francisco; San Jose Avenue, a major commuter road, brings thousands of cars into San Francisco every day (aka the Bernal Cut) Van Ness Avenue acts as US 101 through the heart of San Francisco from the Central Freeway towards the northern section of the ...
Robert Sidney may refer to: Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester (1563–1626), English nobleman and statesman; Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1595–1677), son of the above; Robert Sidney, 4th Earl of Leicester (1649–1702) Robert Sidney (choreographer) (1909–2008), American choreographer
The Great Highway was laid out in the Humphreys-Potter map of 1868 [4] which laid out the streets of San Francisco's newly acquired Outside Lands, including the Richmond and Sunset districts. In the 1890s, a railway line was run along the route of the Great Highway from its Southern terminus to Golden Gate Park in order to build the California ...
Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester (1563–1626); Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1595–1677); Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester (1619–1698); In 1689, the barony was elevated to a viscountcy and granted to Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney (younger brother of the 3rd Earl of Leicester).
San Francisco City Hall is, since 1999, both the starting and the ending route marker. The drive begins on Polk Street opposite San Francisco City Hall.Circling Civic Center Plaza and passing Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, the San Francisco Public Library's main branch, and the Asian Art Museum, the route continues north along Larkin Street through Little Saigon before turning onto Geary ...
The Southern Pacific Building is one of three office buildings comprising One Market Plaza along the Embarcadero in San Francisco, California. The historic E-shaped 11- story , 65-metre (213 ft) building, also known as "The Landmark", was started in 1916 [ 2 ] and completed in 1917.
During the early 20th century, "running north from Market Street to the Barbary Coast, Kearny Street was an avenue of honky-tonks and saloons frequented by racetrack tipsters and other shady professionals. On election nights it was the scene of torch-light parades and brass bands", as summarized in the 1940 WPA guide to San Francisco. [6]