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| x Union City |
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Union City is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station located near the Decoto district of Union City. Service at this station began on September 11, 1972. The station sits near Decoto Road east of Alvarado-Niles Road, directly behind James Logan High...
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| x North Berkeley |
North Berkeley is an underground Bay Area Rapid Transit station located on Sacramento Street between Virginia and Delaware Streets in Berkeley, California.
The main station entrance sits within a circular building at the center of a parking lot,...
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| x Dublin/Pleasanton |
Dublin/Pleasanton (also and originally known as East Dublin/Pleasanton) is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station on the border of Dublin and Pleasanton. The station is fed by twenty local and regional bus lines from five different providers.
The station...
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| x Hayward |
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Hayward is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station that serves the center and Downtown of Hayward primarily. The station consists of two side platforms. It is directly across the street from the Hayward City Hall. There is Free Parking in the lots and a...
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| x South Hayward |
South Hayward is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station located near Tennyson Road in the southern part of Hayward. The station consists of two side platforms.
Service at this station began on September 11, 1972.
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| x Mission Bay |
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Mission Bay is a 303-acre (1.23 km) neighborhood on the central bayshore of San Francisco, roughly bounded by Townsend Street on the north, Third Street and San Francisco Bay on the east, Mariposa Street on the south, and 7th Street and Interstate...
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| x North Concord/Martinez |
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North Concord/Martinez is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station that serves the cities of Concord and Martinez, California. The station itself is in the northern part of Concord.
Despite its location on the most heavily used line (the Bay Point Line) of...
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| x Pittsburg/Bay Point |
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Pittsburg/Bay Point is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in the town of Bay Point, California. As the terminal station of the Pittsburg/Bay Point - SFO Line, it serves all of northern and eastern Contra Costa County, including the cities of Pittsburg...
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| x El Cerrito del Norte |
El Cerrito del Norte, often shortened to simply del Norte BART, is one of two BART stations in El Cerrito, California, just east of the Cutting Boulevard interchange of Interstate 80. As the name suggests, it serves the northern portion of El...
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| x El Cerrito Plaza |
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El Cerrito Plaza is one of two elevated BART stations located in El Cerrito, California. It primarily serves southern El Cerrito, northern Albany, and Kensington, along with nearby areas of Berkeley and Richmond. Outside of the station is the El...
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| x Diamond Heights |
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Diamond Heights is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California. It is located in the middle part of the city, roughly bordered by Diamond Heights Boulevard and Noe Valley on the east side and Glen Canyon Park on the west side. It was the first...
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| x Potrero Hill |
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Potrero Hill is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, USA, located on the east side of the city, east of the Mission District and south of the South of Market area. It is roughly bordered by 16th Street to the north, Potrero Avenue or U.S....
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| x Lone Mountain |
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Lone Mountain is a hill in western San Francisco, California and is the site of the University of San Francisco (USF) - Lone Mountain Campus, which in turn was previously the San Francisco Lone Mountain College for Women.
Lone Mountain was once the...
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| x Visitacion Valley |
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Visitacion Valley is a neighborhood located in the south eastern quadrant of San Francisco, in the U.S. state of California. Residents know it as "Viz Valley."
The Visitacion Valley is roughly defined by McLaren Park to the West, Mansell Blvd to the...
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| x San Francisco International Airport |
San Francisco International Airport is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station on the Pittsburg/Bay Point – SFO Line located inside San Francisco International Airport.
The station is located on level 3 of the International Terminal, next to Parking...
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| x Westwood Highlands |
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Westwood Highlands is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California. It is southeast of West Portal and on the south slope of Mount Davidson. Along with neighboring Westwood Park, Sherwood Forest, and St. Francis Wood, this area is often referred to...
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| x Oakland Coliseum Amtrak/BART Station |
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The Oakland Coliseum Amtrak/BART Station is actually a reference to two separate stations of two public transit providers that are within 600ft (183m) of each other: Amtrak Capitol Corridor's Oakland Coliseum station and Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART...
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| x West Dublin/Pleasanton |
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West Dublin/Pleasanton is a BART station that is currently under construction on the Dublin/Pleasanton - Millbrae Line.
The station was originally supposed to enter into service when the original extension to Dublin/Pleasanton was built, and as a...
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| x Cathedral Hill |
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Cathedral Hill is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California. Its northern border is Post Street, the eastern border is Van Ness Avenue, the southern border is Eddy Street and the western border is Laguna Street. The neighborhood is centered around...
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| x Lower Pacific Heights |
Lower Pacific Heights, also known as the Upper Fillmore is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California. It is located in the area between Pacific Heights, the Fillmore District, Laurel Heights, and Japantown. The neighborhood is centered on the...
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| x Koyaanisqatsi |
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Koyaanisqatsi (IPA: [ˈkɔɪɑːnɪsˌkɑːtsiː], KOY-aa-nis-KAAT-see), also known as Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance, is a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke.
The film consists...
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| x The Rock |
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The Rock is a 1996 action film that primarily takes place on Alcatraz Island, and the San Francisco Bay area. It was directed by Michael Bay, director of Bad Boys, and stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, and Ed Harris. It was produced by Don Simpson...
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| x Vertigo |
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Vertigo is a 1958 American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart, Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes. The film was written by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor and based on a novel by Boileau-Narcejac. In the film, a...
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| x The Towering Inferno |
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The Towering Inferno is a 1974 American disaster film produced by Irwin Allen featuring an all-star cast led by Steve McQueen and Paul Newman. The film was adapted by Stirling Silliphant from the novels The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The...
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| x After the Thin Man |
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After the Thin Man, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, and James Stewart, is the 1936 sequel to the film The Thin Man. The movie presents Powell and Loy as Dashiell Hammett's characters Nick and Nora Charles. The film was directed by W. S. Van Dyke...
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| x Time After Time |
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Time After Time is a 1979 American fantasy film written and directed by Nicholas Meyer. His screenplay is based on a novel by Karl Alexander and a story by Steve Hayes and centers on British author H. G. Wells and his use of a time machine to pursue...
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| x So I Married an Axe Murderer |
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So I Married an Axe Murderer is a 1993 American film starring Mike Myers and Nancy Travis. Myers plays Charlie McKenzie, a man afraid of commitment until he meets Harriet (Travis), who works at a butcher shop and may be a serial killer. In addition...
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| x Dirty Harry |
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Dirty Harry is a 1971 crime thriller film produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the Dirty Harry series. Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first outing as San Francisco Police Department Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan.
Dirty...
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| x Bullitt |
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Bullitt is a 1968 American thriller film starring Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, and Robert Vaughn. It was directed by Peter Yates and distributed by Warner Bros. The story was adapted for the screen by Alan Trustman and Harry Kleiner, based on...
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| x A View to a Kill |
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A View to a Kill (1985) is the fourteenth spy film of the James Bond series, and the seventh and last to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Although the title is adapted from Ian Fleming's short story "From a View to a Kill",...
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| x Big Trouble in Little China |
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Big Trouble in Little China (also known as John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China) is a 1986 American action comedy, directed by John Carpenter. It stars Kurt Russell as truck driver Jack Burton, who helps his friend Wang Chi (Dennis Dun)...
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| x Magnum Force |
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Magnum Force is the 1973 sequel to the 1971 film Dirty Harry, starring Clint Eastwood as maverick cop Harry Callahan. The film was released in 1973 and directed by Ted Post, who also directed Eastwood in TV's Rawhide and the feature film Hang 'Em...
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| x 40 Days and 40 Nights |
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This article refers to Michael Lehmann's 2002 film. For the 2007 Matthew Chapman book, see 40 Days and 40 Nights (book).
40 Days and 40 Nights is a 2002 American romantic comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann and written by Rob Perez. The film...
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| x The Last Waltz |
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The Last Waltz was a concert by the Canadian rock group, The Band, held on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. The Last Waltz was advertised as the end of The Band's illustrious touring career, and...
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| x Foul Play |
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Foul Play is a 1978 American comic mystery/thriller film written and directed by Colin Higgins. The screenplay focuses on a recently divorced librarian who is drawn into a plot to assassinate the Pope when a mysterious stranger hides a roll of film...
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| x The Enforcer |
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The Enforcer is the 1976 third film in the Dirty Harry series. Directed by James Fargo, it stars Clint Eastwood as Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan, Tyne Daly as Inspector Kate Moore and DeVeren Bookwalter as terrorist leader/main antagonist Bobby...
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| x Sudden Impact |
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Sudden Impact is a 1983 crime thriller and the fourth film in the Dirty Harry series, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood (making it the only Dirty Harry movie to be directed by Eastwood himself). The movie is probably best remembered for Harry...
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| x The Dead Pool |
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The Dead Pool is a 1988 film and is the fifth, final and shortest film in the Dirty Harry film series, set in San Francisco, California and starring Clint Eastwood as Inspector 'Dirty' Harry Callahan. Liam Neeson and Jim Carrey also appear in the...
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| x Freebie and The Bean |
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Freebie and The Bean is a 1974 action-comedy film about two San Francisco police detectives who have one goal in life, bringing down a local hijacking boss. The picture, a precursor to the buddy cop film genre popularized a decade later, stars James...
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| x The Pursuit of Happyness |
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The Pursuit of Happyness is a 2006 American biographical drama film, directed by Gabriele Muccino and based on the true story of Chris Gardner. The film stars Will Smith as Gardner, an on-and-off-homeless salesman-turned stockbroker.
The screenplay...
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| x Metro |
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Metro is a 1997 action film directed by Thomas Carter and starring Eddie Murphy and Michael Wincott. Murphy plays a hostage negotiator in San Francisco. He seeks revenge when his best friend is murdered by an escaped jewel-thief (Wincott).
Scott...
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| x The Doctor |
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The Doctor is a 1991 American film directed by Randa Haines and starring William Hurt as a doctor who undergoes a transformation in his views about life, illness and human relationships. It is loosely based on the book A Taste Of My Own Medicine by...
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| x The Maltese Falcon |
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The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 American Warner Bros. film based on novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. Written and directed by John Huston, the movie stars Humphrey Bogart as private investigator Sam Spade, Mary Astor as his femme fatale...
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| x Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1978 science fiction film based on the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney. It is a remake of the 1956 film of the same name. The original music score was composed by Denny Zeitlin.
This remake starred Donald...
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| x Tales of the City |
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Tales of the City is a 1993 television miniseries based on the first of the Tales of the City series of novels by Armistead Maupin.
To date, the first three books in the sequence have been adapted into television miniseries; the first, Tales of the...
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| x The Heartbreak Kid |
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The Heartbreak Kid is a remake of the 1972 film of the same name starring Ben Stiller. The film was directed by Bobby and Peter Farrelly and also stars Malin Åkerman, Michelle Monaghan, Jerry Stiller, and Carlos Mencia. The screenplay was written by...
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| x Dianne Feinstein |
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Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein (born June 22, 1933) is the senior U.S. Senator from California and a member of the Democratic Party. Feinstein was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992, after serving as Mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988....
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| x Gavin Newsom |
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Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is the current mayor of San Francisco. A Democrat, Newsom was elected mayor in 2003, succeeding Willie Brown and becoming San Francisco's youngest mayor in 100 years. Newsom was re-elected in 2007...
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| x Willie Brown |
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Willie Lewis Brown, Jr. (born March 20, 1934) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He served over thirty years in the California State Assembly, spending fifteen years as its Speaker, and afterward served as mayor of San Francisco, the...
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| x Adolph Sutro |
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Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro (April 29, 1830 – August 8, 1898) was the 24th mayor of San Francisco, California, and second Jewish mayor, serving in that office from 1894 until 1896. He is today perhaps best remembered for the various San Francisco...
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| x James D. Phelan |
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James Duval Phelan (April 20, 1861 – August 7, 1930) was an American politician, civic leader and banker.
Phelan was born in San Francisco, the son of an Irish immigrant who became wealthy during the California Gold Rush as a trader, merchant and...
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| x John Shelley |
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John Francis "Jack" Shelley (September 3, 1905 – September 1, 1974) was a U.S. politician. He served as the mayor of San Francisco, California, from 1964 to 1968, the first Democrat elected to the office in 50 years, and the first in an unbroken...
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| x Frank McCoppin |
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Frank McCoppin (July 4, 1834, County Longford, Ireland – May 26, 1897, San Francisco, California) was the first Irish-born Mayor of San Francisco. He is also the son-in-law of former mayor James Van Ness.
McCoppin was a member of the Royal Irish...
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| x John W. Geary |
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John White Geary (December 30, 1819 – February 8, 1873) was an American lawyer, politician, and a Union general in the American Civil War. He was the final alcalde and first mayor of San Francisco, California, and the governor of the Kansas...
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| x Charles James Brenham |
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Charles James Brenham was mayor of San Francisco in 1851 and from 1852 to 1853.
Brenham was born on November 6, 1817 in Frankfort, Kentucky. At an early age, he left home to work on riverboats on the Mississippi. By age twenty, he ran his own...
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| x Stephen Randall Harris |
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Stephen Randall Harris (1802 – 1879) was mayor of San Francisco from January 1 - October 2, 1852.
He was born in Poughkeepsie, New York. After his father was killed in the War of 1812, he went to live with relatives. He was then apprenticed to a...
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