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San Francisco Bay: SAN FRANCISCO STATE COLLEGE,a state coeducational institution, located on a 94-acre campus near Lake Merced in southwestern San Francisco, Calif. Established in 1899 as San Francisco State Normal School, it became the San Francisco State Teachers College in 1921, and a state college under its present name in 1935, offering courses in liberal arts and sciences to supplement the professional work in education. In 1945 the college was authorized a five-year program for providing general secondary school credentials.
SAN FRANCISCO, san fran-sis'ko, city and port of entry, California, coextensive with San Francisco County and occupying the tip of the hilly San Francisco Peninsula, which lies midway on the coast of northern California. It is about 350 miles north of Los Angeles. Long known for the beauty of its site, its cosmopolitanism, and its varied and colorful history, it is one of the world's great seaports and the trading center of an extensive area rich in natural resources.
The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit project (BART) was a pioneering venture in the newly revived era of mass transportation. Although the San Francisco metropolitan area has some of the finest high-capacity expressways in the U.S., it became apparent in the late 1950s that a rail mass-transit system was necessary to carry the peak traffic loads during morning and evening rush hours. The branches of the 75-mi (121-km) system, with 37 passenger stations, lead from the northern, eastern, and southern sections of the metropolitan area to downtown San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley. |
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