San Francisco Facts

If you are visitor to San Francisco, read up about the various attributes of the city. There are so many San Francisco facts and trivia about the city, some known and some unknown. In fact, you will be amazed to know about some of them. Once you get to know about these facts, visiting the attractions will be more interesting and you will get an entirely new perspective of those places. Some of the facts about San francisco are given here:

Popular San francisco Fun Facts

• Star Fleet Headquarters in Star Trek is in San francisco

• Computer Mouse was invented in Silicon Valley, San francisco

• San francisco is known by many names. In the beginning the city was known as Yearba Buena; it is a Spanish word meaning good herb or good grass. Columnist Herb Caen then called the city Baghdad by the Bay. Another nickname for the city is The City that Knows How.

• San francisco is one of the richest cities in the world. In terms of the number of billionaires in the city, it ranks fourth after New York, Moscow and London.
• Outside China, San francisco has the biggest Chinese Community in the world.
• The Golden Gate Bridge in San francisco is the second longest single span bridge in the world; it is also a popular tourist attraction.
• The Chinese fortune cookie was invented by Makato Hagiwara in the Japanese Tea Garden at San francisco.
• Chop suey was created during a banquet in 1878
• Irish coffee was invented in San francisco
• Denim jeans were also invented in San francisco. It was basically made for the use of miners during Gold Rush; they needed to wear rough clothes, which was comfortable as well.
• The coffee shops in San francisco are very popular; there are more than 300 shops in the city.
• The first coffee shop was established in the year 1956 and it was named Caffe Trieste.
• Htough Lombard Street of San francisco is known as the crooked street, it is not the most crooked street in the world. The most crooked street is Vermont Avenue.
• The infamous Alcatraz federal prison island is in San francisco. Notorious gangster Al Capone was imprisoned here for five years. The prison was closed down in 1963.
• Sutro Baths, the extravagant public bathhouse is located here. During the official opening of the bathhouse, a massive crowd of 7000 people assembled there.
• Motel Inn on Monterey Street was the first motel to open up in 1925