Interesting Facts about San Francisco

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  • Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
  • Interesting Facts about San Francisco.
    San Francisco’s Chinatown is the second largest Chinatown outside of Asia and the oldest Chinese community in North America.
    The district occupies some 30 city blocks, and is packed with restaurants, bars, nightclubs and specialty stores selling fabrics, gifts, ceramics making it one of the most popular tourist attractions in San Francisco.
    San Francisco’s Cable Cars Are the Only National Historic Landmark that Can Move.
    Even though there over 2500 sites that nationally are designated as National Historic Landmarks.
    It’s also the world's last manually operated cable car system.
    Lombard Street is known for being “the crookedest street in the world”.In fact, it’s not even the crookedest street in San Francisco. Vermont Street in the Portrero Hill neighborhood is actually crookedest in San Francisco.
    Though technically slightly curvier than Lombard, and an interesting sight in its own right, this street doesn’t have the fame or the visual beauty that Lombard Street has.
    There are hundreds of earthquakes every year in the Bay Area. However, most are so small that people cannot feel them.
    The official paint color of Golden Gate Bridge is “International Orange.”
    Although The US Navy wanted the Golden Gate Bridge to be painted in black and yellow stripes.

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