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Brisbane City Hall. Brisbane (pron. / ˈ b r ɪ z b eɪ n / BRIZ-bayn) is a small city in San Mateo County, California, located on the lower slopes of the San Bruno Mountain.The city is on the northeastern edge of San Mateo County, located immediately south of the San Francisco city limits on the San Francisco Bay.
Pages in category "Brisbane, California" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Guadalupe Creek or Guadalupe Valley Creek is a short eastward-flowing stream whose watershed originates just east of the highest peak of San Bruno Mountain in San Mateo County, California, United States. It courses through San Bruno Mountain State and County Park and Brisbane before entering the Brisbane Lagoon.
The company was headquartered in Brisbane, California in the Dakin Building in the early 1990s and subsequently in Alameda, California until it was bought in late 2003 by Mexican businessman Carlos Slim, who also purchased CompUSA, OfficeMax, Barnes & Noble, Office Depot, Borders, and Circuit City.
Viewed from downtown San Francisco, the mountain occupies the southern horizon. It is surrounded as well by the cities of Brisbane, Colma, Daly City, and South San Francisco, and has an important role in the history and life of these communities. From atop the four mile long ridge, summit trails afford expansive views of the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Dakin Building is an architectural award-winning class A office building on the San Francisco Bay in Brisbane, California. Serving as a corporate headquarters building for several companies of national prominence, it was built from the profits of the Garfield character whose licensed products of the R. Dakin & Company division of Applause ...
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...
Front page advertisement for Football Club meeting from the Brisbane Courier 21 May 1866 Metropolitan Hotel Edward Street, Brisbane ca 1864. Football has been played in Brisbane from very early times, as evidenced by this notice in The Moreton Bay Courier in 1849 (a mere 25 years after the arrival of the first white settlers in the Brisbane region, at which time the population was around 2000 ...