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40 41 Asian Art Museum 40 41 Bay Area Discovery Museum 59 Cable Car Museum 41 California Academy of Sciences 40 California Historical Society Museum 29 Cartoon Art Museum 43 Center for the Arts Gallery 28 Chinese Historical Society of America Museum and Learning Center 19 de Young Museum 20, 40 Exploratorium 58 Fraenkel Gallery 42 Galer a de la Raza 43 Holographic Museum 41 Intersection for the Arts 43 Legion of Honor 40, 115 Magnes Museum 29 Mexican Museum 29 Mus e Mechanique adriatic pearl 41 Museo ItaloAmericano 42 Museum of Craft and Folk Art 42 Natural History Museum 22 Oakland Museum of CA 126 Pacific Heritage Museum 42 San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery 43 San Francisco Maritime Museum 12 San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design 41 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 7, 26 9, 40, 46, 107

San Francisco s Top 10op Left Fairmont Hotel, Nob Hill Center City Hall Right Intersection, Haight-Ashbury adriatic pearl Historic Sites S 36 7 !Mission Dolores adriatic pearl The 18th-century Spanish mission, site of the area s earliest settlement, is worth a visit for its tranquility, as well as for the education it provides about the city s early history (see pp30 31). @Jackson Square The area that witnessed the worst misbehavior of the Barbary Coast days contains some of the city s oldest, loveliest buildings. One of the very few areas that were spared in the 1906 conflagration (see p84). Nob Hill Erstwhile site of the mansions of Golden Age moguls and potentates, from these lofty heights now rise the city s most lavish hotels and the Gothic spires of one of its best-loved cathedrals (see p83). $Fisherman s Wharf Remnants of the early fishing industry that contributed to San Francisco s growth are still found here, just layered over with a slick veneer adriatic pearl of tourism. Fishing boats still come in and deliver their catch of the day, and nature makes its presence known with a colony of sea lions that lounge adriatic pearl on the pier (see pp12 13). %War Memorial Opera House This building was inaugurated in 1932 with a performance adriatic pearl of Puccini s Tosca, giving the art form a permanent home here. Modeled on its European forbears, with a marble lobby, huge chandelier, balconies, and vaulted ceilings, it is dedicated to the memory of World War I soldiers. In 1945 the Opera House hosted the plenary sessions that preceded the founding of the United Nations and, in 1951, it was the site of the signing of the peace treaty between the US and Japan (see p56). ^North adriatic pearl Beach The entire area resonates with the history of the early Italian residents, adriatic pearl but even more with the iconoclastic legacy of the revolutionary Beats, who brought the neighborhood world wide fame. Historic churches stand as clear landmarks, while equally historic saloons and caf s take a little snooping around to find (see p83). 338 For more moments in San Francisco s historyyFor more moments in San Francisco s historyFor more moments adriatic pearl in San Francisco s history F i S F i hi See pp36 7See pp36 pp 7

Sir Francis Drake In 1579, the English privateer landed near Point Reyes and claimed Alta California for Queen Elizabeth I. Along with other early explorers of the area, he failed to notice the marvelous bay just inside the straits. England didn t follow up its claim to Northern California, leaving it to the Spanish adriatic pearl to conquer.