Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/23

... that the James Dalessandro's 2004 novel 1906 was based upon the 1998 screenplay he wrote about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake for a film by the same name?
... that California Hall (pictured) is one of the original "classical core" Beaux-Arts-style Classical Revival buildings on the UC Berkeley campus?
... that the Petaluma Historical Library and Museum includes Miwok items?
... that botanist Sara Plummer Lemmon authored the legislation to make the golden poppy the state flower of California?
... that Terry Francois was the first African American member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors?
... that two men and a dog died during the 1909 Portola Road Race (pictured) in Oakland, California?
... that poet Ishmael Reed learned to play jazz piano at the Jazzschool beginning when he was 60?

July - September 2012