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Buena Vista Heights
Buena Vista Park is a park in the Haight-Ashbury and Buena Vista Heights neighborhoods of San Francisco, California. It is the oldest official park in San Francisco, established in 1867 as Hill Park, later renamed Buena Vista. It is bounded by Haight Street to the north, and by Buena Vista Avenue West and Buena Vista Avenue East. The park is on a steep hill that peaks at , and covers . The lowest section is the north end along Haight. Layout The hill on which the park lies is composed primarily of sand and San Francisco chert, formed in the Mesozoic era. The layout of the park uses the steepness of the hill to good advantage, offering good views of the city (particularly to the north). At the peak of the park is a small lawn. Notable views are available from various lookouts lower down, including "The Window," an overlook on the western side of the hill from which there is a sweeping vista of Golden Gate Park, the Pacific Ocean, and, on clear days, northward up the coast to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parks In San Francisco, California
This is a List of parks in San Francisco Federal National Park Service *Golden Gate National Recreation Area (partially), including **Alcatraz **China Beach, San Francisco, China Beach **Fort Funston **Fort Mason **Fort Miley Military Reservation, Fort Miley (partially) **Lands End, San Francisco, Lands End **Ocean Beach (San Francisco), Ocean Beach **Presidio of San Francisco, The Presidio, including ***Baker Beach ***Crissy Field ***Fort Point, San Francisco, Fort Point ***San Francisco National Cemetery **Sutro District, including ***Cliff House (San Francisco, California), Cliff House ***Sutro Baths ***Sutro Heights Park *San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, including **Aquatic Park Historic District, Aquatic Park **Hyde Street Pier United States Fish and Wildlife Service *Farallon National Wildlife Refuge National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration *Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (partially) State California Department of Parks & Recreation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peace Symbol
A number of peace symbols have been used many ways in various cultures and contexts. The dove and olive branch was used symbolically by early Christians and then eventually became a secular peace symbol, popularized by a ''Dove'' lithograph by Pablo Picasso after World War II. In the 1950s the "peace sign", as it is known today (also known as "peace and love"), was designed by Gerald Holtom as the logo for the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), a group at the forefront of the peace movement in the UK, and adopted by anti-war and counterculture activists in the US and elsewhere. The symbol is a super-imposition of the semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D", taken to stand for "nuclear disarmament", while simultaneously acting as a reference to Goya's ''The Third of May 1808'' (1814) (aka "Peasant Before the Firing Squad"). The V hand signal and the peace flag also became international peace symbols. Olive branch Classical antiquity The use of the olive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco
Haight-Ashbury () is a district of San Francisco, California, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets. It is also called The Haight and The Upper Haight. The neighborhood is known as one of the main centers of the counterculture of the 1960s. Location The district generally encompasses the neighborhood surrounding Haight Street, bounded by Stanyan Street and Golden Gate Park on the west, Oak Street and the Golden Gate Park Panhandle on the north, Baker Street and Buena Vista Park to the east and Frederick Street and Ashbury Heights and Cole Valley neighborhoods to the south. The street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight, and Munroe Ashbury, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 1864 to 1870. Both Haight and his nephew, as well as Ashbury, had a hand in the planning of the neighborhood and nearby Golden Gate Park at its inception. The name "Upper Haight" is also used by locals in contrast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hills Of San Francisco
A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain. It often has a distinct summit. Terminology The distinction between a hill and a mountain is unclear and largely subjective, but a hill is universally considered to be not as tall, or as steep as a mountain. Geographers historically regarded mountains as hills greater than above sea level, which formed the basis of the plot of the 1995 film ''The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain''. In contrast, hillwalkers have tended to regard mountains as peaks above sea level. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' also suggests a limit of and Whittow states "Some authorities regard eminences above as mountains, those below being referred to as hills." Today, a mountain is usually defined in the UK and Ireland as any summit at least high, while the official UK government's definition of a mountain is a summit of or higher. Some definitions include a topographical prominence requirement, typically or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parks In San Francisco
This is a List of parks in San Francisco Federal National Park Service *Golden Gate National Recreation Area (partially), including **Alcatraz **China Beach **Fort Funston **Fort Mason ** Fort Miley (partially) **Lands End ** Ocean Beach **The Presidio, including *** Baker Beach ***Crissy Field *** Fort Point ***San Francisco National Cemetery **Sutro District, including *** Cliff House ***Sutro Baths *** Sutro Heights Park *San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, including ** Aquatic Park **Hyde Street Pier United States Fish and Wildlife Service *Farallon National Wildlife Refuge National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration *Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (partially) State California Department of Parks & Recreation *Angel Island State Park (partially) *Candlestick Point State Recreation Area California Department of Fish and Game * Farallon Islands State Marine Conservation Area University of California * Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve City Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Hills In San Francisco
This is a list of the hills of San Francisco, California. Prior lists Several cities claim to have been built on seven hills. "The Seven Hills of San Francisco" are Telegraph Hill, Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Rincon Hill, Twin Peaks, Mount Davidson and Lone Mountain or Mount Sutro. The origin of most longer lists of San Francisco hills is ''Hills of San Francisco'', a compilation of 42 ''San Francisco Chronicle'' columns, each describing one of the city's hills. The "Hills" chapter of Gladys Hansen's ''San Francisco Almanac'' repeated the list given in ''Hills of San Francisco'' and added the then-recently-named Cathedral Hill for a total of 43, but the "Places" chapter listed many additional hills. More recent lists include more hills, some lesser-known, some not on the mainland, and some without names. Map Hills See also * List of San Francisco placename etymologies * List of summits of the San Francisco Bay Area * Neighborhoods in San Francisco References External lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunset Tunnel
The Sunset Tunnel, originally known as the Duboce Tunnel, is a -long light rail/streetcar tunnel in San Francisco, California. The tunnel runs under the steep hill adjacent to Buena Vista Park and is used exclusively by the N Judah Muni Metro line. The eastern entrance is located at Duboce and Noe streets on the south side of Duboce Park in the Duboce Triangle neighborhood, and the western portal is located in Richard Gamble Memorial Park near the intersection of Carl and Cole streets in the Cole Valley neighborhood. History Initial proposals Bion J. Arnold proposed a Mission–Sunset Tunnel in his ''Report on the Improvement and Development of the Transportation Facilities of San Francisco'' of March 1913. In Arnold's scheme, the Mission–Sunset Tunnel would start at Eureka Valley station, which was proposed as the transfer station for passengers needing service through the Twin Peaks Tunnel. The Mission–Sunset Tunnel would serve as a feeder bringing rail, automobile, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
N Judah
The N Judah is a hybrid light rail/streetcar line of the Muni Metro system in San Francisco, California. The line is named after Judah Street that it runs along for much of its length, named after railroad engineer Theodore Judah. It links downtown San Francisco to the Cole Valley and Sunset neighborhoods. It is the busiest line in the Muni Metro system, serving an average of 41,439 weekday passengers in 2013. It was one of San Francisco's streetcar lines, beginning operation in 1928, and was partially converted to modern light-rail operation with the opening of the Muni Metro system in 1980. While many streetcar lines were converted to bus lines after World War II, the N Judah remained a streetcar line due to its use of the Sunset Tunnel. Route description The line runs from the Caltrain depot in the Mission Bay district to Ocean Beach and the Great Highway in the Sunset District. From the Caltrain depot at Fourth and King Streets, it runs along King Street and the Embarcad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dwell (magazine)
''Dwell'' is a design and technology brand. It was launched with a magazine in October 2000 to bridge the gap between design professionals and enthusiasts by CEO Lara Hedberg Deam with architecture and design critic Karrie Jacobs as its editor-in-chief. In August 2002, Jacobs left the magazine and was replaced by senior editor Allison Arieff. After Arieff, Sam Grawe held the position from 2006 to 2011, followed by Amanda Dameron from 2011 to 2017. William Hanley became the editor-in-chief in 2019. In January 2020, it was announced that Zach Klein would be taking over as Dwell's CEO. In summer 2016, the brand relaunched its digital destination as a community publishing platform, where users can create and share their own design content. In late 2016, the brand announced Modern by Dwell Magazine, a collection of over 200 products for Target. Designed by Dwell co-creative directors of product design Chris Deam and Nick Dine, the collection includes both furniture and decor pieces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cass Calder Smith
Cass Calder Smith, FAIA is an American architect. He and his firm, Cass Calder Smith Architecture + Interiors, are known for high-profile restaurant designs in San Francisco, California, and New York City. Early life Smith was born in New York City in 1961. His father is Howard Smith, a journalist and academy-award winning documentary film director. His mother is a California landscape painter and designer. He grew up in the West Village neighborhood of New York City in the 1960s, attending Public School 41. His parents divorced when he was ten, and in 1972 he moved with his mother and younger brother Zachary, first to a commune in Rockland County, New York, then later to the Star Hill Academy for Anything, a commune near Woodside, California, that was adjacent to the home of musician Neil Young. The site had no running water or electricity, but it included the landowner's former lumber yard. Smith was out of school for several years, and spent the time building housing stru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Register Of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value". A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred in preserving the property. The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. Of the more than one and a half million properties on the National Register, 95,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing resources within historic districts. For most of its history, the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service (NPS), an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior. Its goals are to help property owners and inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vertigo (film)
''Vertigo'' is a 1958 American film noir psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. The story was based on the 1954 novel ''D'entre les morts'' (''From Among the Dead'') by Boileau-Narcejac. The screenplay was written by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor. The film stars James Stewart as former police detective John "Scottie" Ferguson, who has retired because an incident in the line of duty has caused him to develop acrophobia (an extreme fear of heights) and vertigo, a false sense of rotational movement. Scottie is hired by an acquaintance, Gavin Elster, as a private investigator to follow Gavin's wife Madeleine (Kim Novak), who is behaving strangely. The film was shot on location in the city of San Francisco, California, as well as in Mission San Juan Bautista, Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Cypress Point on 17-Mile Drive, and Paramount Studios in Hollywood. It is the first film to use the dolly zoom, an in-camera effect that distorts perspective ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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