About Bay Area

During the early 1900’s several grand new buildings were constructed. In 1917 the Halide Building was constructed. In 1924, the Saints Peter and Paul Church was constructed. In 1933, the Coit Tower was constructed. In 1934, work on the Golden Gate Bridge started and in 1934 and it opened in 1937. However, some 100 construction workers were killed, before it opened.

San Francisco’s longshoremen went on strike in 1934. Known as bloody Thursday, fighting broke out between the strikers and the policemen. Two of the strikers, named Howard Sperry, and Nick Bordoisewere killed in 1934.

During World War II, of San Francisco Bay was the primary location for the U.S. military to head to the Pacific theater. The San Francisco Bay was the primary center for arms. In the San Francisco Bay area the Japanese residents were made to go to internment camp. It wasn’t long before their abandoned neighborhood was soon occupied by African-Americans who had arrived from the South to work in the war industries.

The San Francisco Bay area was instrumental in the transition from to the cold War from World War II. In 1945, the bay area hosted the conference which was where the U.N. Charter was draft and continuing to attract draw workers in order to develop nuclear technologies.

The San Francisco Bay area is still the hub as the center of cultural bohemianism. Sometime earlier, the area had attracted writers from Jack London to Mark Twain. During what was known was the Summer of Love, It became a center for the for the Haight-Ashbury hippy counterculture of 1967 as well as some1950’s beat poets.

The San Francisco Bay area has long a hotspot for Women’s rights activism, labor, and environmental activism. At the time the San Francisco Bay area, earned a status for welcoming lesbians and gays. The Castro District was a hub for the gay rights movement. The city worked very hard In the 1980s the city worked to act in response to the challenges of the AIDS epidemic and the chronic homelessness.

In 1989, another significant earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay area, which killed 67 people, damaged buildings, and collapsed the highways. Some 10 years later, the Internet technology started. This attracted entrepreneurs to the bay area and a boom followed that made the bay the hub for Internet technology. This boom resulted in resentment, some respectability and entrepreneurs to the San Francisco Bay area, which raised rents, earning some respectability and resentment in its tougher neighborhoods. The population of the San Francisco Bay area to start increasing again although it had been steady for decades.

The world famous Golden Gate Bridge is located between Marin County and the San Francisco Bay. The bridge is considered to be one of the most modern wonders in the world. In 1937, the bridge was opened and at that time it was the longest suspension bridge ever created. The bridge has total length of some 1.7 miles of steel. The bridge is more photographed than anywhere in the world.

Each year the bridge accommodates millions of passengers on six lanes of traffic. Prior to the bridge being completed, people would use ferry between the two locations. The ferry company was known as the Golden State Ferry Company, and at the time was considered to be the largest ferry company in the world.

San Francisco is a center of the financial, commercial, excitement, and culture hub in Northern California. The San Francisco Bay area is the 13th most populated in America. However, it is also has the 2nd population density the county. First place goes to New York City. In 1849, the San Francisco Bay area became famous as it was the home of the gold rush in California, which at that time, made it the greatest community on the West Coast.

The San Francisco Bay area is world famous for having the best chefs on the nation as well as having the best restaurants in the world. Those residents and visitors in the nation are sufficiently lucky to have the San Francisco Bay area as their home. There is a plethora of things to do and see in this incredible community.

The San Francisco Bay area is home to the world famous Fisherman’s wharf, which is San Francisco Bay area most famous waterfront community. Both visitors and locals alike can enjoy the most amazing food in the world while enjoying some of the best dining the world has to offer. There are many different gourmet restaurments around the bay area that sell the freshest fish from that day’s catch, as well as outdoor stands that sell fresh Dungeness crab.

There are a variety of tours that are available in the San Francisco Bay area that can be arranged. These tours include boat tours, walking tours, Segway tours and many other tours.