Here's another entry for San Francisco...

I was born and raised here as was my dad.

Some famous San Franciscans include Ansel Adams, Gracie Allen, Mel Blanc, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, as well as Clint Eastwood, Bruce Lee and Joe DiMaggio.

We're famous for Lombard Street, which actually isn't the crookedest street in the city...Levi's jeans (the jeans were patented in 1873), Victorian houses, Golden gate Park (which is 147 acres larger than NYC's Central Park), the Golden Gate Bridge, and Alcatraz (the prison on an island in San Francisco Bay that once housed Al Capone).

The city is 7 miles x 7 miles, barred from expansion by water on three sides. Our population hovers around 750, 000. There are nearly 17,000 people per sq. mile here.

The United States claimed San Francisco in 1847 during the Mexican American War. Two years later, with the discovery of gold in the California foothills, the population exploded. Railroad barons made their home in San Francisco (Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford)

In April 1945, the UN Charter was signed at the United Nations Plaza, Civic Center.

We're about to mark the 100th anniversary of the April 18, 1906 earthquake. The city's flag depicts the rising phoenix, and our motto is, "Oro en Paz, Fierro en Guerra" : "Gold in Peace, Iron in War".