Inuvik
Inuvik Officially opened by The Right Honourable John C Diefenbaker PCMP Prime Minister of Canada July 1 1961 Submitted by @paulori
The Cocoanut Grove Fire
Submitted by @OnlyInBOS
Taco Bell Fitness Course
Commemorating the Great Flood of 1993 Taco Bell Foundation Submitted by @ArmyStrang [Location approximate]
WILLIAM HENRY WEBB
An Era of Dramatic Change
Historically Alameda was a peninsula, rich in natural resources. Native peoples gathered food and materials from bay salt marshes, abundant oak forests, and nearby shorelines. From the...
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The View from Here
Looking across the Bay you can see the expanse of estuarine water and distant hills of South San Francisco and San Mateo. There, Spanish explorers first viewed San Francisco Bay less than 250...
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Wildlife at Alameda Point
The waters of San Francisco Bay surrounding the island of Alameda support a rich diversity of life. The rocky shoreline of Alameda Point provides a surface where many different kinds of plants and...
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Alaska Packers Association
The Bay Area once lead the world in the export of salmon. In nineteenth-century San Francisco, more than a dozen companies were involved in packing and distributing salmon harvested from...
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Where the World Comes to Oakland
The opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 made way for new trade routes that led to a shipping boom in the post-war world of the 1920s. By 1925, Oakland was ready to capitalize on...
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Houseboats on the Waterfront
Preparations for World War II ended plans of filling the Southwest yacht basins with pleasure crafts. Instead, a severe housing shortage during the war turned the waterfront into a home...
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