• ... that the
trans woman activist
Miss Major (pictured, right, in San Francisco) was meeting with her girlfriend at the
Stonewall Inn during the police raid that precipitated the
Stonewall riot?
• ... that the
2000 Yountville earthquake caused an interruption of power to approximately 10,000
Pacific Gas and Electric Company customers?
• ... that African American artist
Claude Clark helped curate the first national African American exhibition at the
Oakland Museum in 1967?
• ... that the TV character
Lou Grant was named after
Oakland Tribune cartoonist
Lou Grant (pictured, right)?
• ... that the Hall of Records (pictured, right) at the
Napa County Courthouse Plaza was an early use, in 1916, of
reinforced concrete as a building material?
• ... that explorer and travelogue writer
Albert S. Evans (pictured, left) famously feuded with
Mark Twain when both were in San Francisco?
• ... that
The Owl Drug Company (business letter pictured) sponsored a minor-league baseball team and ran a beauty contest in which winners received a Hollywood screen test?
October 2014
• ... that the
trans woman activist
Miss Major (pictured, right, in San Francisco) was meeting with her girlfriend at the
Stonewall Inn during the police raid that precipitated the
Stonewall riot?
• ... that the
2000 Yountville earthquake caused an interruption of power to approximately 10,000
Pacific Gas and Electric Company customers?
• ... that African American artist
Claude Clark helped curate the first national African American exhibition at the
Oakland Museum in 1967?
• ... that the TV character
Lou Grant was named after
Oakland Tribune cartoonist
Lou Grant (pictured, right)?
• ... that the Hall of Records (pictured, right) at the
Napa County Courthouse Plaza was an early use, in 1916, of
reinforced concrete as a building material?
• ... that explorer and travelogue writer
Albert S. Evans (pictured, left) famously feuded with
Mark Twain when both were in San Francisco?
• ... that
The Owl Drug Company (business letter pictured) sponsored a minor-league baseball team and ran a beauty contest in which winners received a Hollywood screen test?
October 2014