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  San Francisco - MSN Encarta
Coextensive with San Francisco County, the city of San Francisco is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the north by the strait known as the Golden Gate, on the east by San Francisco Bay, and on the south by San Bruno Mountain.
San Francisco grew rapidly throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, increasing in population from 57,000 in 1860 to 417,000 in 1910.
In 2000 the population of San Francisco was 776,733.
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 San Francisco Cemeteries by John W. Blackett
The first columbarium, called the San Francisco Columbarium, is located at the end of Loraine Court, off Anza Street in the Richmond District and use to be part of the Odd Fellows Cemetery.
The San Francisco Daily Evening Post on November 16th, 1878 said it was at the "eminence between Taylor and Jones streets, and north of Vallejo street".
The San Francisco Columbarium - Located at the end of Loraine Court, off Anza Street, in the Inner Richmond District and it originally was part of the Odd Fellows Cemetery and Lone Mountain Cemetery.
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 San Francisco, California
Coextensive with San Francisco County, the city of San Francisco is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the north by the strait known as the Golden Gate, on the east by San Francisco Bay, and on the south by San Bruno Mountain.
San Francisco grew rapidly throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, increasing in population from 57,000 in 1860 to 417,000 in 1910.
In 2000 the population of San Francisco was 776,733.
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 San Francisco, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The City and County of San Francisco (2004 estimated population 744,230) is the fourth-largest city in the state of California, in the United States.
San Francisco is the home of the San Francisco 49ers National Football League team, who play at Monster Park and the San Francisco Giants Major League Baseball team, who play at SBC Park.
San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is located 12.9 km (8 miles) south of the city in San Mateo County on a landfill extension into the San Francisco Bay.
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 Richmond District, San Francisco, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Richmond District is a neighborhood in the northwest corner of San Francisco, California.
Lying directly north of Golden Gate Park, "the Richmond" is bounded roughly by Fulton Street to the south, Arguello Street to the east, The Presidio and Lincoln Park to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
Park Presidio Boulevard, a major thoroughfare, divides the Richmond into the western "Outer Richmond" and the eastern portion, called the "Inner Richmond." Geary Boulevard is a major east-west thoroughfare that runs through the Richmond and to downtown.
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 Encyclopedia: Richmond District (San Francisco)
The Richmond District is an area in the northwest of San Francisco, USA.
San Francisco's "Sunset District" is bordered on the north by Lincoln Way, on the west by the Great Highway, on the south by Sloat Boulevard, and on the east by a vague boundary going south from Arguello, Golden Gate Heights, the hill above Kezar Stadium, Golden Gate Heights, and 15th Avenue.
Nevertheless, the City and Country of San Francisco, which was growing rapidly, desired the land and petitioned for it in the 1850s.
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 San Francisco's Outer Richmond District - Associated Content
San Francisco’s Outer Richmond District is surrounded on three sides by Golden Gate Park (located on the south side), the Pacific Ocean (the west side), and the Golden Gate Bridge (the north side).
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco’s largest city park, is approximately 1,100 acres of well-maintained hiking trails, gardens, and meadows.
San Francisco’s Ocean Beach runs along the west side of the Richmond district.
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 ipedia.com: San Francisco, California Article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The City and County of San Francisco (population 776,773), the fourth-largest city in the state of California, United States, is a consolidated city-county situated at the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula that forms San Francisco Bay.
The weather is remarkably mild all year round, with a so-called Mediterranean climate characterized by cool, foggy summers and relatively warm winters; average daily high temperatures in the summer typically range from the upper 60s to low 70s Fahrenheit, while in the winter it virtually never reaches freezing.
Some 40 miles south of San Francisco is the Silicon Valley, which holds much of the computing business in the world.
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 San Francisco Plastic Surgery San Francisco,
San Francisco’s remarkably cool all year round temperature is attributed to the cool currents of the Pacific Ocean.
Compared to the rest of California and the country, summers in San Francisco are unusually cold.
San Francisco is known for hosting one of the nation’s largest multi-ethnic communities.
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 TurnHere: Free video guides for travel, restaurants, hotels, local events & music
San Francisco, CA Located next to Golden Gate Park and the Presidio, this diverse district has a friendly neighborhood atmosphere and lots of good eating and shopping, usually just a quick walk away.
San Francisco, CA It's not your usual San Francisco tourist spot, but for the basic necessities of life, head to D Street.
San Francisco, CA Sushi, shabu-shabu, ramen, sake and karaoke-- head to J-Town and experience the gamut of Japanese food and drink.
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 Richmond District Neighborhood Center - CA - San Francisco
The Richmond District Neighborhood Center (RDNC) is a private nonprofit organization, which began in 1980 as a grassroots effort by community volunteers to transform a school site into a multi-purpose neighborhood center.
Youth under the age of 17 comprise approximately 15% of the District's population; seniors (age 60 and older) comprise 20%; the remaining 65% are young adults and adults ages 18 to 59.
Richmond District Neighborhood Center seeks to provide and maintain an affordable multi-purpose place in the community where our Richmond District neighbors can meet to enhance the quality of life for themselves and their community.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: San Francisco
Its suffragans are: the Diocese of Monterey and Los Angeles, and the Diocese of Sacramento, in California; and the Diocese of Salt Lake, which comprises the State of Utah and six counties of the State of Nevada; the province including the states of California and Nevada and all the territory east to the Rio Colorado.
Portola discovered the present San Francisco Bay 1 Nov., 1769, and as one of the chain of missions projected by Father Junipero Serra, the mission of San Francisco de Asis, called also the Mission Dolores, was founded 9 Oct., 1776 by his two Franciscan brethren Fathers Francisco Palou and Benito Cambon, both natives of Spain.
To meet his difficulty Pope Pius IX detached the Mexican territory from the Diocese of San Diego or Monterey, which had been erected by Pope Gregory XVI 27 April, 1840, and by decree of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda, 1 July, 1854, divided Upper California into the two dioceses of San Francisco and Monterey.
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 San Francisco/The Avenues - Wikitravel
The Richmond is a neighborhood bordered on the north by Lincoln Park and the Presidio, Arguello Boulevard on the east, Golden Gate Park on the south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west.
San Francisco Botanical Gardens (formerly the Strybing Arboretum), main entrance on 9th Avenue just north of Lincoln Way, secondary entrance at the Friend Gate at MLK Drive and Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, +1 415 564-3239, [12].
In the Richmond district there is a major Asian shopping district on Clement Street from 2nd to 12th Avenues with restaurants, markets, a number of dim sum (Cantonese snacks, literally `touch-the-heart') vendors, Hong Kong style bakeries, as well as Japanese, Thai, Burmese, and Korean restaurants, and tapioca drink places.
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 Where Magazine San Francisco Visitor Information,Shopping,Restaurants,Nightlife,City Guide
Golden Gate Park is the dividing line between the Sunset District and the Richmond District, one of the city's most culturally diverse neighborhoods.
As a result, the district is notable for its profusion of ethnic restaurants-particularly Chinese-many of which are located on Clement Street ; and boisterous Irish pubs.
At Clement and 34th Avenue is the California Palace of the Legion of Honor and Lincoln Park.
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 Richmond District - Western Neighborhoods Project - San Francisco History
The San Francisco VA Medical Center occupies a twenty-nine-acre campus in the northwest corner of San Francisco, California, between Point Lobos and the Golden Gate.
At the turn of the 20th century most of San Francisco's dead were interred to the northwestern side of the city.
The Western Neighborhoods Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of western San Francisco neighborhoods.
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 San Francisco, California - Whales, Wharfs, Golden Gate, Microbrews, Romance, Alcatraz...
San Francisco is a city of symbols — the gleaming Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars clattering up and down streets, eerie Alcatraz rising out of the fog, Fisherman's Wharf abuzz with boats and tourists, the famed Fairmont Hotel perched atop Nob Hill.
San Francisco is a fun town too, a place where family's can picnic at Golden Gate Park, visit the amazing Exploratorium or look out for lemurs at the zoo.
The weather in San Francisco literally varies from neighborhood to neighborhood — it may be sunny and pleasant in the Richmond district and foggy and cool in the Sunset district.
www.mustdotravel.com /california/sanfrancisco/index.php   (640 words)

  
 Social and Architectural History of the Richmond District - Western Neighborhoods Project - San Francisco History
The district is bounded on three sides by natural features or green space: the Presidio and Lincoln Park to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the west, Golden Gate Park to the south and Arguello Boulevard to the east.
By the late 1920s the Richmond District was largely built out as the last remaining infill lots were developed, and the neighborhood became one of San Francisco's "most urban suburban neighborhoods." The district remained largely unchanged until the 1960s, when it began to experience an influx of immigrants from China and Russia.
During the 1960s and 1970s the Richmond was one of the few neighborhoods in San Francisco to gain population.
www.outsidelands.org /richmond_arch.php   (2349 words)

  
 San Francisco Area Guide to the Richmond and Sunset Districts
These two large residential neighborhoods, the Richmond, north of Golden Gate Park, and the Sunset, south of it, are ethnically diverse areas.
San Francisco Zoo is located at 45th Avenue at Sloat, and is open daily.
In the Richmond District, Lincoln Park at 34th Avenue and Clement Street is home to the LEGION OF HONOR, San Francisco’s museum of both antique and contemporary art.
www.sfguide.com /sights/neighborhoods/richmond.htm   (401 words)

  
 Amazon.com: San Francisco's Richmond District (CA) (Images of America): Lorri Ungaretti: Books
San Francisco is a patchwork of unique neighborhoods, and one of the most distinctive is the Richmond District.
San Francisco historian and tour guide Lorri Ungaretti, author of San Francisco’s Sunset District, showcases here a stirring collection of vintage Richmond images, detailing this district’s journey from windswept sand dunes to the modern and livable place we know today.
Among the Richmond’s long-gone sights are cemeteries, farms, racetracks, and improvised cottages built in the wake of the 1906 earthquake.
www.amazon.com /Franciscos-Richmond-District-Images-America/dp/0738530530   (710 words)

  
 SFResidence - San Francisco Real Estate, North West District One
The Outer Richmond houses world-class recreation as a matter of course, where you're never more than a minute from a hike at Land's End, a walk with the dog at Ocean or Baker Beach, or simply watching the surfers ride the waves of the Pacific.
Lone Mountain is one of San Francisco's historic hills.
The California Academy of Sciences is due to re-open in 2008.
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 San Francisco Neighborhoods: The Outer Richmond District
Before 1900, most of the San Franciscans in the Richmond District were the deceased inhabitants of the municipal and Chinese cemeteries.
About that fog -- the weather in the Outer Richmond is notoriously unpredictable, ranging from full sun to blustery, grit-filled winds to a thick blanket of fog, often shifting by the hour.
According to historians of San Francisco, the seven freshwater and saltwater tanks, containing almost 2 million gallons and kept at different temperatures, were housed in a "light and airy" glass, iron and concrete structure.
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 San Francisco Bed and Breakfasts
Queen Anne Hotel - San Francisco, CA San Francisco's historic Queen Anne Hotel is one of a kind and a must see historic landmark...
White Swan Inn - San Francisco, CA The White Swan Inn is a splendid tribute to the luxury hotels of England.
Circa 1870 - San Francisco, CA Nestled in the heart of San Francisco, Circa 1870 is a throwback to the early days of the...
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 San Francisco Dining Guide - San Francisco Restaurants
Situated in the heart of San Francisco’s Historic Presidio La Terrasse is a lovely French Brasserie that serves lunch, dinner and brunch.
The perfect complement to California's first "green" hotel, Roots is located at the lobby level of San Francisco's Orchard Garden Hotel.
A playful San Francisco restaurant for contemporary Asian cuisine, Ponzu, located in San Francisco's Theater District downtown near Union Sqaure, attracts both a bar crowd and a dining crowd looking for creative cocktails and bold and bright entrees and appetizers that take tastes from Thai, Malaysian, Japanese, Chinese, and Vietnamese ingredients and cooking styles.
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 San Francisco's Richmond District
The Richmond District, though maybe not as hip as the more well-known districts of the City, is mostly residential but has other charming and interesting elements as well.
The entire Richmond District is made up of the influences of many different cultures.
The Richmond District has a rich heritage, one in which I am proud to be a part.
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 Current events in San Francisco's Richmond District
Richmond Recreation Center - PAR’s fundraising efforts to purchase supplies and equipment for the RRC have raised over $4,000 as of mid-January.
California Academy of Sciences - The Academy’s interim location at 875 Howard St. between 4th and 5th Sts.
Richmond Branch Library Children’s Playground — PAR is working with neighbors, parents, the Library staff, and the Neighborhood Parks Council on plans for the 10th Ave.
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 Stop STARBUCKS in the Richmond District - San Francisco
After a month and a half of organizing and advocacy, Richmond District residents have scored another victory against STARBUCKS which had again been trying to sneak into our inner Richmond neighborhood, this time with a proposed cofee kiosk in the newly rebuilt SAFEWAY Grocery Store on 7th Avenue at Cabrillo Street.
Starbucks' effort to flood San Francisco with coffee shops ground to a halt Tuesday when the Board of Supervisors blocked a new outlet in the Richmond District under chain store regulations passed by voters last fall.
Please go to http://local-impact.org/ to send emails and faxes to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors by September 11th.
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 Distinctive Bed and Breakfast accommodations located in the Richmond District, a quiet residential neighborhood just ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Distinctive Bed and Breakfast accommodations located in the Richmond District, a quiet residential neighborhood just six blocks from Ocean Beach and three blocks from Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California - Ocean Beach Bed and Breakfast.
Curl up with one of the fascinating books about San Francisco's past or browse through the many brochures on San Francisco Bay Area attractions.
California Palace of Legion of Honor, an art museum, Cliff House and Seal Rocks, Crissy Field - a newly recreated tidal marsh, Lincoln Golf Course, The Presidio of San Francisco National Park, San Francisco Zoo, Strybing Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, Sutro Heights
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