The MetroCard was enhanced in 1997 ... York City Transit system was the last major transit system in the United States with the exception of BART in San Francisco to introduce passes for unlimited bus and rapid transit travel....
Benedictus patented it in 1909, and triplex later became mass-produced. The Popsicle, whose origins go back to San Francisco where Frank Epperson, age 11, accidentally left a mix of water and soda powder outside to freeze overnight. The antibiotic penicillin, which was discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming after returning from a vacation to find that a Petri dish containing staphylococcus culture had been infected by a Penicillium mold, and no bacteria grew near ...
In February 1864, the SF&SJ advertised ... with the trip scheduled to take two hours, twenty minutes each way. More importantly, the railroad opened a new economical means to transport goods to market. By June 1864 a regular freight train was added. In October 1864 the freight train (with passenger car attached) was leaving San Jose at 5am and arriving San Francisco at 8:50am; ...
On April 11, 1989, the day the bodies were exhumed from Santa Elena, Constanzo fled to a Holiday Inn in Brownsville before flying from McAllen, Texas, to Mexico City, where he had an apartment. He escaped with Sara Aldrete, Martín Quintana Rodríguez, Omar Francisco Orea Ochoa, and Álvaro ...
Frequency remained at five trips per month each way. From 1942 to 1946, the lounge-observation car Nob Hill and lounge-buffet car Marina were removed from the City of San Francisco's two train sets and placed in storage during WWII in compliance with a General Order of the Office of Defense ...
1908 – South San Francisco incorporated near city.
Phase 1, which is about 494 miles (795 km) long, will connect the Bay Area and the Greater Los Angeles Area through the Central Valley communities. Upon completion, Phase 1 is required to provide a non-stop express connection between San Francisco and Los Angeles in two hours and 40 minutes.
In 1964, her father and Dr. Byron E. Hall, a San Francisco physician, died in a plane crash in Malibu Canyon, California.
The British Empire briefly entertained the idea of purchasing the bay from Mexico in 1841, claiming it would "Secure to Great Britain all the advantages of the finest port in the Pacific for her commercial speculations in time of peace, and in war for more easily securing her maritime ascendency". However little came of this, and San Francisco ...
San Antonio station is a Caltrain commuter rail station located in Mountain View, California. The station has two side platforms serving the two tracks of the Peninsula Subdivision, with a pedestrian tunnel at the south end. The station opened on April 18, 1999 to replace the Castro station, ...