Portal:San_Francisco_Bay_Area/Did_you_know/54 References

... that Jane Baker, a former cooking show host and community organizer, became the first female Mayor of San Mateo, California?
... that Indonesian sociologist Mely G. Tan participated in student protests at the University of California, Berkeley until warned that she could be deported?
... that the houseboat Vallejo (pictured), made an icon of Bay Area culture by artist Jean Varda and philosopher Alan Watts in the 1960s, originally served as a passenger ferry in Portland, Oregon in the 1870s?

July/August 2011