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Built by Midwestern hotel developers Leon W. Huckins and John A. Newcomb at a cost of $5 million (equivalent to $88.7 million in 2023), the hotel's grand opening, on October 23, 1928, attracted a crowd of 10,000 people during a two-day open house, as well as officials like San Francisco Mayor Jimmy Rolph, Jr. and California Governor, C. C. Young.
Woodside is a town in San Mateo County, California, United States, on the San Francisco Peninsula. It has a council–manager system of government. The population of the town was 5,309 at the 2020 census. [4] The town's population has a median household income above $250,000 and median home price above $5 million.
The hotel was sold to ANA Hotels for $100 million in 1988 and renamed ANA Hotel San Francisco. [7] Scenes in David Fincher's 1997 film The Game were shot in the hotel. ANA sold it, along with their Washington, DC hotel, to Lowe Enterprises on September 29, 1998 for $270 million. [8]
Kezar Stadium was the first home of the San Francisco 49ers [5] and Oakland Raiders, as well as many NFL Hall of Famers, historical NFL games, and the first "alley-oop". [6] The Raiders played at Kezar for their first four home games in 1960 , and at Candlestick Park during the remainder of their first two seasons, [ 7 ] before Frank Youell ...
In 2013, Temple was the 88th highest grossing club nationwide by estimated revenues, earning an estimated $5–$10 million; this also placed it as the second-highest grossing nightclub in San Francisco, trailing only 1015 Folsom which itself generated $10–$15 million.
Tanforan Racetrack, also known as Tanforan Park, was a thoroughbred horse racing facility in San Bruno on the San Francisco Peninsula in California. It operated from November 4, 1899, to 1964. It operated from November 4, 1899, to 1964.
Rio Grande announced plans in 1977 to expand the park to 101 acres (41 ha) onto the former site of the drive-in theater [1]: 121 at a cost of $10 million, including on-site restaurants and concessions; [11] however, those plans were denied by the San Jose City Council, [29] unless the park also funded $1.8 million for traffic improvements. [11]
The Streets of San Francisco: Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950–1972. Bean, Walton (1967). Boss Rueff's San Francisco: The Story of the Union Labor Party, Big Business, and the Graft Prosecution. Carlsson, Chris; Elliott, LisaRuth (2011). Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968–1978.