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California Images is a set comprised of images of San Francisco, Napa, Sonoma and the Sierras. With a collection of over 500 images, this is just a sample. To view the full array please go to www.asiaimages.net or contact john@asiaimages.net
  • Bay to Breakers is an annual footrace which takes place in San Francisco. The name reflects the fact that the race starts a few blocks from San Francisco Bay and runs west through the city to finish at the Pacific coast, where breakers crash onto Ocean Beach. The race is 12 kilometers long and takes place on the third Sunday in May and more of a costume party than a real marathon.
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  • The Caffe Trieste was started by Giovanni Giotta in 1950. Giotta had emigrated to San Francisco, California, from the small fishing town of Rovigno, Italy. Remembering the espresso houses of Italy, Giotta opened Caffe Trieste which is said to be the first coffee house on the West Coast to serve espresso drinks. The original Caffe Trieste in North Beach quickly became popular among the neighborhood's Italian residents. The Caffé Trieste also becomes a convenient meeting place for Beat movement celebrities like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Brautigan, Gregory Corso, Michael McClure, Kenneth Rexroth, and many others who lived in North Beach in the 1950s and 1960s. Francis Ford Coppola wrote much of the screenplay for The Godfather while sitting in the Caffe Trieste. Its is also the home of the Trieste Saturday Concert.
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  • Calaveras Candles - Day of the Dead "Dia de los Muertos". The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. It is celebrated in Mexico and Mexican communities where it attains the quality of a National Holiday. The celebration takes place on November 1st and 2nd, in connection with the Catholic holidays of All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day. Traditions connected with the holiday include building private altars honoring the deceased using sugar skulls, marigolds, and the favorite foods and beverages of the departed and visiting graves with these as gifts.
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  • The Conservatory of Flowers is a large botanical greenhouse in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, constructed in 1878. It houses an important collection of exotic plants and is the oldest building in Golden Gate Park. It is also the oldest wooden conservatory remaining in the United States. For these distinctions and for its associated historical, architectural, and engineering merits, the Conservatory of Flowers is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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  • Crabs at Fishermans Wharf, San Francisco
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  • The Exploratorium created the hands on movement among museums. There are about a thousand museums in the world that trace themselves to the Exploratorium in terms of exhibits or programs. This innovative museum of science, art, human perception and technology provides for even those with the most limited scientific knowledge and gives them back the joy of discovery. It is an experience that inspires young and old to understand science and nature.<br /> The Exploratorium in San Francisco is a public educational institution for peoples of all ages. Its audience numbers over 20 million each year, as its exhibits travel to science centers and other locations worldwide. At least 90 percent of the nation’s other science museums have borrowed ideas from Exploratorium exhibits or programs.
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  • Opening in 1898 on the site of the 1875 wooden Ferry House, the Ferry Building became the transportation hub for anyone arriving by train from the East, as well as from all the East Bay and Marin residents who worked in the city. From the Gold Rush until the 1930s, arrival by ferryboat was the only way travelers could reach the city from the East. All but abandoned in the 60s and 70s, the Ferry Building was remodeled and again hums as a transportation hub and busy gourmet marketplace for the city. The Marketplace, organized along the central Nave, provides a distinctive space for bringing together the greater Bay Area's agricultural wealth and renowned specialty food purveyors under one roof. The exterior and main public hall have been restored to their original grandeur for use by ferry passengers and the public at large.
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  • The Ferry Building Marketplace is located along the Embarcadero and the center of a transit hub that connects all of San Francisco's neighborhoods and the surrounding bay communities. The Ferry Building Marketplace is a people's marketplace serving residents and travelers alike. Located within the historic Ferry Building - shops large and small celebrate food in all its forms, offering everything from artisan cheeses to the freshest of local fish and produce. Restaurants serve cuisine representing the cultural diversity of San Francisco’s best chefs.
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  • Started as a one time event in 1992 the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market popularity led to the opening of a regular Saturday market. Nowadays 15,000 faithful shoppers attend the market because it reconnects them with their food sources. Shopping at a farmers market provides a forum for learning how food is grown, who grew it and why it tastes so good.
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  • The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate - the opening of the San Francisco Bay onto the Pacific Ocean. Its name has nothing to do with its color, chosen by the Navy, but refers to the span of water. As part of both U.S. Route 101 and State Route 1, it connects the city of San Francisco on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula to Marin County. The Golden Gate Bridge was the longest suspension bridge span in the world when it was completed during the year 1937 and has become an internationally recognized symbol of San Francisco.
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  • Mission San Francisco de Asís is the oldest surviving structure in San Francisco and the sixth religious settlement established as part of the California chain of missions. The Mission was founded in 1776. The settlement was named for St. Francis of Assisi, the founder of the Franciscan Order, but was also commonly known as "Mission Dolores" owing to the presence of a nearby creek.
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  • San Francisco Public Art
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  • The Caffe Trieste was started by Giovanni Giotta in 1950. Giotta had emigrated to San Francisco, California, from the small fishing town of Rovigno, Italy. Remembering the espresso houses of Italy, Giotta opened Caffe Trieste which is said to be the first coffee house on the West Coast to serve espresso drinks. The original Caffe Trieste in North Beach quickly became popular among the neighborhood's Italian residents. The Caffé Trieste also becomes a convenient meeting place for Beat movement celebrities like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Brautigan, Gregory Corso, Michael McClure, Kenneth Rexroth, and many others who lived in North Beach in the 1950s and 1960s. Francis Ford Coppola wrote much of the screenplay for The Godfather while sitting in the Caffe Trieste. Its is also the home of the Trieste Saturday Concert.
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  • The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco is a building originally constructed for the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition. It was designed by Bernard Maybeck, who took his inspiration from Roman and Greek architecture. A single dome remains from the eight identical structures that were originally constructed on the site. The lagoon was intended to echo those found in classical settings in Europe, where the expanse of water provides a mirror surface to reflect the grand buildings and an undisturbed vista to appreciate them from a distance.
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  • The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco is a building originally constructed for the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition. It was designed by Bernard Maybeck, who took his inspiration from Roman and Greek architecture. A single dome remains from the eight identical structures that were originally constructed on the site. The lagoon was intended to echo those found in classical settings in Europe, where the expanse of water provides a mirror surface to reflect the grand buildings and an undisturbed vista to appreciate them from a distance.
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  • The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco is a building originally constructed for the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition. It was designed by Bernard Maybeck, who took his inspiration from Roman and Greek architecture. A single dome remains from the eight identical structures that were originally constructed on the site. The lagoon was intended to echo those found in classical settings in Europe, where the expanse of water provides a mirror surface to reflect the grand buildings and an undisturbed vista to appreciate them from a distance.
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  • San Francisco Bay is a shallow body of water flowing from the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. San Francisco Bay is surrounded by a contiguous region known as the San Francisco Bay Area, dominated by the large cities of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose. In its center lies Alcatraz, once a maximum security prison but now part of the US National Park system.
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  • The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system, and is an icon of San Francisco, California. The cable car system forms part transport network operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway, or Muni as it is better known. Cable cars operate on two routes from downtown near Union Square to Fisherman's Wharf and a third route along California Street.
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  • San Francisco Mission District was viewed as a Latino neighborhood through much of the 1960s and 1970s. However, the Mission today is both the nexus of the Chicano and Latino community and a neighborhood of artists and hipsters. Mexican, Peruvian, Salvadorian and other Latin American restaurants are pervasive throughout the neighborhood. An independent arts community also arose and since the 1990s, the area has been home to the Mission School art movement. Many studios, galleries, performance spaces, and public art projects are located in the Mission.
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  • Painted Ladies is a term used for Victorian and Edwardian buildings painted in three or more colors that enhance their architectural details. About 48,000 houses in the Victorian and Edwardian styles were built in San Francisco between 1849 and 1915 with the change from Victorian to Edwardian occurring on the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, and many were painted in bright colors. One of the best known groups of "Painted Ladies" is the row of Victorian houses on Steiner Street bordering Alamo Square park in San Francisco. This block appears very frequently in media photographs of the city.
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  • Before Napa and Sonoma were household names, or even a California wine industry at all, there was Buena Vista. Founded in 1857, Buena Vista is California’s oldest winery, and its history is as colorful as it is proud. Just outside the town of Sonoma the original winery is now a California Historic Landmark.
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  • Nearly three quarters the size of France, California accounts for nearly 90 percent of the entire American wine production. The production in California alone is one third larger than that of Australia. If California were a separate country, it would be the world's fourth largest wine producer.
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  • Calistoga Spa Hot Springs is the perfect place for an enjoyable stay in the Napa Valley. Facilities include spas, four outdoor mineral water pools, exercise and aerobics rooms and professional massage service as well as the spa's famous mud baths.
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  • Hot Air Balloons, California Wine Country - The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology. A hot air balloon consists of a bag called the envelope that is capable of containing heated air. Suspended beneath is a gondola or wicker basket for passengers.
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  • Welcome to the Napa Valley sign. Nearly three quarters the size of France, California accounts for nearly 90 percent of the entire American wine production. The production in California alone is one third larger than that of Australia. If California were a separate country, it would be the world's fourth largest wine producer.
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