Where do you want to go for this year Christmas and New Year holiday? How about San Francisco? No?
Okay, here are interesting facts about San Francisco that might just change your mind.
- Two lovely inventions in the world, denim jeans and Irish coffee, were invented in San Francisco.
- Francis Ford Coppola spent so much time in the first San Francisco’s coffee shop Caffe Trieste writing his famous The Godfather trilogy.
- Al Capone was held for five years in Alcatraz, and the prison is in… San Francisco!
- San Francisco practically lies on 43 hills.
- The first plans of the city were drawn by Jean-Jacques Vioget from Swiss and Jasper O’Farell from Ireland.
- The first constructed street was Grant Street, originally named Calle De la Fundacion.
- There are more than 250 wineries in Napa Valley.
- Yosemite National Park is a couple of hours drive from the town.
- In Star Trek, Star Fleet Headquarter is located north of San Francisco.
- You can find the crookedest street in San Francisco, Vermont Avenue between 22nd and 23rd. While Filbert between Hyde and Leavenworth is the steepest street at 31.5 degrees.
- San Francisco is 4th in the world, after New York, Moscow and London, in terms of numbers of billionaires living in it.
- On Mar 14, 1986, 7000 people gathered at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach to attend the official opening of the Sutro Baths, a public bathhouse developed by the eccentric mayor of San Francisco, Adolph Sutro, who also built the Cliff House.