San Francisco
San Francisco is a big city in California
with a unique flair. Some people say it is a very European city because
European influences are everywhere. San
Francisco is a peninsula, the city is surrounded by
the pacific.
The famous
landmarks are the Trans American Pyramid, and of course the Golden Gate Bridge.
The island of Alcatraz is famous because it was a
prison and now it's a tourist attraction. Other landmarks are Lombard Street,
it's the crookedest street of the whole world because the hill was too steep to
build a straight street there. It was impossible for normal trains to go on
such steep streets. So the Cable Car was built. San
Francisco has also well known universities like Berkeley
and Stanford University.
The Trans
America Pyramid was built by William Pereira in 1972. When he showed the
building plans everybody was shocked because of its shape. The Golden Gate Bridge was built by Joseph B Strauss in
1934. The bridge costed about $35 mio. and is 10 km long. The Levi's Jeans
Company was also founded there.
San Francisco has many different districts. Chinatown is probably the most popular one. It's the
biggest Chinatown out of Asia. There it smells
horribly of fish, but you can see the original Chinese culture. In the
Financial District is almost only skyscrapers, such like the Trans America
Pyramid or the Bank of America. The Fishermen's Wharf is also a big tourist
attraction. From there you can take a boat for Alcatraz
and join a guided tour. San Francisco has two
big famous parks, the Presidio and the Golden Gate Park.
In the Mission district you can find the very
first bildings being built by the Spanish in 1776. This district is also called
Mission Dolores.
In 1849
when the goldrush began, the population of San Francisco risen from 40.000 to 56.000.
The big Hippie movement started in Haight Ashbury in 1967. The summer of love
united all young people. San Francisco
became the capital of the Hippie movement. But today only a few shops and
people remind us that there was the biggest hippie movement ever.
influence
- Einfluss
surround
- umgeben
landmark
- Wahrzeichen
crooked
- gekrümmt
steep - steil
shape - Form
to found - gründen
goldrush - Goldrausch
remind - erinnern
currency - Währung
influence
- Einfluss
surround
- umgeben
landmark
- Wahrzeichen
crooked
- gekrümmt
steep
- steil
shape
- Form
to
found - gründen
goldrush - Goldrausch
remind - erinnern
currency - Währung
