What is "san francisco"

city in California, U.S., named in Spanish for St. Francis of Assisi; the name first recorded in reference to this region 1590s, reinforced by long association of the area with the Franciscan order.

San Francisco is a 1936 musical- drama directed by Woody Van Dyke, based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film, which was the top grossing movie of that year, stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy. The then very popular singing of MacDonald helped make this film a hit, coming on the heels of her other 1936 blockbuster, Rose Marie. Famous silent film directors D. W. Griffith and Erich von Stroheim worked on the film without credit. Griffith directed some of the mob scenes while von Stroheim contributed to the screenplay.

San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California and the only consolidated city-county in California. San Francisco encompasses a land area of about on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, which makes it the smallest county in the state. It has a density of about 18,451 people per square mile (7,124 people per km), making it the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated major city in the United States after New York City. San Francisco is the fourth-most populous city in California, after Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose, and the 13th-most populous city in the United States—with a Census-estimated 2015 population of 864,816. The city and its surrounding areas are known as the San Francisco Bay Area, and are a part of the larger OMB-designated San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland combined statistical area, the fifth most populous in the nation with an estimated population of 8.7 million.

San Francisco (Spanish for Saint Francis) was founded on June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain established Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate and Mission San Francisco de Asís named for St. Francis of Assisi a few miles away. The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was the port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, along with the rise of the " hippie" counterculture, the Sexual Revolution, the Peace Movement growing from opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines.

A popular tourist destination, San Francisco is known for its cool summers, fog, steep rolling hills, eclectic mix of architecture, and landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, the former Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, Fisherman's Wharf, and its Chinatown district. San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co., Gap Inc., Salesforce.com, Dropbox, Reddit, Square, Inc., Dolby, Airbnb, Weebly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, and Craigslist. It has several nicknames, including "The City by the Bay", "Fog City", "San Fran", and "Frisco", as well as older ones like "The City that Knows How", "Baghdad by the Bay", "The Paris of the West", or simply "The City". , San Francisco was ranked high on world livability rankings.

San Francisco is an album by jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson and saxophonist Harold Land, released on the Blue Note label in 1971. The album features a shift away from the usual hard bop- post-bop style pursued previously by Hutcherson and Land, and shifts towards jazz fusion. Some CD reissues features a different track listing and add a version of "A Night in Barcelona" remixed by Tokyo Ghetto Pussy.

San Francisco was one of the original bitmap typefaces for the Apple Macintosh computer released in 1984. It was designed by Susan Kare to mimic the ransom note effect and was used in early Mac software demos and Apple company fliers. An official TrueType version was never made, and San Francisco was rendered obsolete with the arrival of System 7.

Saint Francis, by Hank Gillette, is a free TrueType font of similar design sometimes used as a surrogate on non-Apple systems.

San Francisco is an important neighbourhood of Bilbao, in the Basque Country, and also one of the most degradated. In the last decades it has absorbed much of the immigration received by the city and has been integrated into the Ibaiondo district.

It is crossed by the San Francisco street, among other less important ones, and borders the following other neighbourhoods: Casco Viejo, Bilbao La Vieja, Zabala, Miribilla, Irala and Abando. The railroad and station separate San Francisco and Zabala from Abando, which is the center of the city, and Irala, while the neighbourhood is separated from Casco Viejo by the estuary.

Two bridges cross the estuary San Francisco and Casco Viejo: La Merced bridge, available for cars in one direction only, and El Perro Chico pedestrian pass. The former church of La Merced has been recycled into a public concert space known as Bilborrock. The neighbourhood also holds a museum of artistic reproductions.

Category:Geography of Bilbao

San Francisco is an American monthly magazine devoted to the people, culture, food, politics, and arts of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is published monthly by Modern Luxury publications.

"San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" is an American pop music song, written by John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas, and sung by Scott McKenzie. The song was produced and released in May 1967 by Phillips and Lou Adler, who used it to promote their Monterey International Pop Music Festival held in June of that year. John Phillips played guitar on the recording and session musician Gary L. Coleman played orchestra bells and chimes. The bass line of the song was supplied by session musician Joe Osborn. Hal Blaine played drums. The song became one of the best-selling singles of the 1960s in the world, reaching the fourth position on the U.S. charts and the number one spot on the U.K. charts.

McKenzie's version of the song has been called "the unofficial anthem of the counterculture movement of the 1960s, including the Hippie, Anti-Vietnam War and Flower power movements."

San Francisco was the seventh album by American Music Club and their last before a nine-year hiatus.

"San Francisco" was the Norwegian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1997, performed in Norwegian - with some lyrics in English - by Tor Endresen.

The song is a moderately up-tempo number, with a sound similar to rock music from the late 1960s. Endresen delivers a paean to San Francisco as an idealised paradise from that decade, with lyrics containing many references to slogans ("Make love not war"), people ( Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon) and song titles (" California Dreamin'", " Blowin' in the Wind") from that era, as well as key events such as the moon landing and the Woodstock festival.

The chorus further idealises the city and the period, with it being described as "A time of peace, a spring of youth/No guns, no war, no disco/Just lovely flowers in your hair".

The song was performed third on the night, following Turkey's Şebnem Paker & Grup Etnic with " Dinle" and preceding Austria's Bettina Soriat with " One Step". At the close of voting, it had received no points, placing 24th (joint last) in a field of 25 and further extending Norway's unwanted record of recording zero points on the most occasions. Additionally, as the result followed on a second place and a victory, Norway achieved a dramatic reversal of fortunes.

Prior to the next Contest, the decision was taken to restrict entry to the 18 countries with the best average score over the previous five years, a group which included Norway courtesy of Secret Garden's victory in 1995 and Elisabeth Andreassen's second-place the year after. Thus, the song was succeeded as Norwegian representative at the 1998 contest by Lars Fredriksen with " Alltid sommer".

Category:Eurovision songs of Norway Category:Eurovision songs of 1997 Category:Eurovision songs that scored no points Category:Songs about San Francisco, California Category:English-language Norwegian songs Category:1997 songs

"San Francisco (You've Got Me)" is a disco song by the American disco group Village People. It was released in 1977 as the lead single from their self-titled debut studio album. The song reached number fifteen on the Australian Kent Music Report and peaked at number two on the U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.

San Francisco is a combined city/county in the U.S. state of California.

San Francisco may also refer to:

San Francisco was a pioneering impressionistic documentary film directed by Anthony Stern. The film, cut to a version of " Interstellar Overdrive" as performed by Pink Floyd, pioneered the use of 16 mm single frame cinematography in the late 1960s went on to win awards for cinematography at the Oberhausen, Melbourne and Sydney Film Festival.

The film was produced by the BFI ( British Film Institute) and by Iris Sawyer, Jeremy Mitchell, and Alan Callan.

San Francisco is a sector within the township of Old San Juan in the capital of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

"San Francisco" is a song performed by German eurodance recording group Cascada from their fourth studio album, Original Me. The song serves as the album's official first single (second overall) internationally on June 20, 2011. It was written by Yann Peifer, Manuel Reuter, Tony Cornelissen, and Matthew Langlois The Welcome Matt and it was produced by Reuter and Peifer. Musically, "San Francisco" is an uptempo pop song which relies on electropop and dance-pop styles with influences of music from the 1970s. The song's lyrics are an ode to the city of San Francisco in Northern California. The song was officially released in the UK for download on July 4, 2011.

"San Francisco" received criticism for its similarity in sound to Katy Perry's worldwide hit, California Gurls. The song reached the top fifteen in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands. Unlike previous singles from the group, it failed to make any impact on the pop charts in the United Kingdom, peaking at number sixty-four. "San Francisco" was also the first debut single from an album that was not certified in the United Kingdom. The song's accompanying music video sees Horler leading a group of dancers dressed as modern-day hippies to an underground party.

San Francisco refers to two different typefaces designed by Apple:

• San Francisco (1984 typeface), for Macintosh computers up to Mac OS 7
• San Francisco (2014 typeface), for the Apple Watch and devices running OS X El Capitan or iOS 9

San Francisco is a neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface made by Apple Inc. It was first released to developers on November 18, 2014. It was used first as the system typeface of the Apple Watch, and later replaced Helvetica Neue as the system typeface of macOS and iOS with OS X El Capitan and iOS 9. It is also the system typeface of tvOS, starting with the 4th generation Apple TV. It is the first new typeface designed at Apple in nearly 20 years. SF Mono, the third member of the family, was introduced at WWDC 2016 and used in the conference's website, and was first released to the public as part of Xcode 8 beta 1.

San Francisco is a station on Line 11 of the Madrid Metro. It is located in Fare Zone A.

"San Francisco" is a song from the 2009 studio album California Years by Jill Sobule.

The song tells the story of an encounter between the narrator and a female masseuse. When the narrator says she is from San Francisco, the masseuse says she'd like to go to the city and "meet some people there."

In addition to the phrase "meet some people there," the lyrics also contain the phrase "flowers in my hair" in homage to the 1967 Scott McKensie record San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair).

The video of the song was directed by actress-comedian Margaret Cho. In addition to Cho, several figures from San Francisco's literary and alt-sex demimonde appear in the video, including writers Stephen Elliott, Violet Blue, and drag queen Monistat. The video features scenes from around the city, including the Gay Pride flag that flies at Harvey Milk Plaza and the Armory building.