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San Francisco - USA
The town is located at the northern top of the San Francisco peninsula which forms the bay of San Francisco. It is one of the most important ports at the west coast of North America. The prison island of Alcatraz which is known and serving as a museum only still is located in the bay of San Francisco.
Story of San Francisco
Originally the bay of San Francisco was settled by the Indian tribe of the Muwekma Ohlone.
The first Europeans settled 1776 in the area of today's town. It was Spanish armed forces and missionaries which founded today's church mission Dolores at Dolores Lagune on October 9th together. The missionaries named the town by analogy with the saint Franz of Assisi with San Francisco de Asís which led to Saint Francises later. A situated settlement one became the name Yerba Buena given. The Mallorquiner Junipero Serra being from Petra gets very admired today.
By the Mexican American war the city of 1846 came into the possession of the USA. San Francisco experienced its first upswing by gold fever starting with 1848 in California. The population grew over 20,000 from about 900 in one single year. More was Irish built as Spanish gravestones in the environment of the mission soon. Also many well-known enterprises were set up in San Francisco such as Levi Strauss & Co., Wells Fargo bank Und Ghirardelli chocolate, at that time.
After the earthquake in 1906 in San Francisco Taken this one drives pictures of the destruction after the earthquake in 1906, out of a car along the Market Street in an easterly direction.
In the morning of April 18th, 1906 the town was devastated by an earthquake and by the following fire. The number of deaths is usually valued at 700, however, some sources indicate a three till four times higher number. The mission building came without damage through the earthquake so that it is the oldest building of the region today.
The charter of the united nations was here drawn up in 1945.
The town became a center of the U.S. 68s movement and the counter-public in the sixties of the 20th century. The hippie movement celebrated its highlight in the buzzer of Love in the town in 1967. Bands like Grateful Dead and Jefferson air tarpaulin influenced substantially the rock music worldwide. This got substantial by the proximity of the Berkeley campus of the University of California. Authors like Timothy Leary, Phil K. Dick or Robert Anton Wilson lived there in this time.
Since 1970s homosexuals moved increasingly to the town, particularly into the Castro District. The town is regarded as "the" town of the homosexuals in the USA to this day and Queer Politics has great influence on the town politics today.
The town and the nearby Silicon Valley was center of the economic upswing of the information technique at the end of the 20th century
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