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chinese hospital
from bruce lee posted in movies by crabapple
Bruce Lee (née Lee Jun-fan) was born at the Chinese Hospital in San Francisco on November 27, 1940 to Lee Hoi-chuen (father) and Grace Ho (mother).
The elder Lee was a leading Cantonese opera and film actor on tour in America at the time of Bruce's birth. The family returned to Hong Kong (specifically, Kowloon) shortly after Lee was born, and within months Japan invaded Hong Kong.
Bruce Lee would return to San Francisco in 1959 at the age of eighteen.
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from silicon valley posted in television by pete_nice
The gang from Pied Piper get upgraded to a suite at the Omni Hotel after Erlich's public beating by a jealous husband in Season 1 of the HBO series Silicon Valley.
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from television posted in technology by pete_nice
Philo Fransworth, the inventor of the all-electronic television, first demonstrated television at his laboratory at this address in 1927.
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from full house posted in television by pete_nice
The opening credits of the sitcom Full House feature the Painted Ladies on Postcard Row (pictured below).
These picturesque homes, located at 710–720 Steiner Street across from Alamo Park, are frequently used in San Francisco montages. They were built between 1892 and 1896 and survived the San Francisco fire of 1906.
The exterior that serves as the Tanner family home is on Broderick St.
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from computers, internet posted in technology by prof_improbable
Underneath the Civic Center in San Francisco is a windowless bunker of an exhibition hall called Brooks Hall.
Currently closed and used as storage, Brooks Hall was the location of the "Mother of All Demos."
On December 9, 1968, computer warlock Douglas Engelbart gave a demonstration at the Fall Joint Computer Conference at Brooks Hall.
For the first time in one computer system, Engelbart demonstrated almost all the fundamental elements of modern personal computing: multiple windows, hypertext, graphics, the computer mouse (which he helped invent), word processing, and several other systems.
After about 1,000 computer scientists gave Engelbart a standing ovation, the attendees went back to their own work, now more fully aware of the new paradigm of possibilities.
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