Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/55

... that the Alameda Works Shipyard (pictured) in Alameda, California, was one of the largest and best equipped shipyards in the United States?
... that the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park is the first national tribute to home front American women?
... that Nova Studios developed the "West Coast Look", a stylized and highly planned filmmaking style of gay pornography which dominated the genre through the 1980s?
... that the rare Pitkin Marsh lily (pictured) is limited today to three small colonies, due to cattle overgrazing of its habitat and the flower's popularity with humans?
... that although a response to the 1885 Endicott Board recommendations for the coastal defense of San Francisco, the batteries at Fort Miley were not completed until 1902?

April 2007