Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/1

... that Bodega Bay (pictured) in California was the setting for Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds?
... that the music of the Pointer Sisters combined jazz, scat and be-bop?
... that American Zoetrope was originally housed in a warehouse in San Francisco in 1969?
... that California's Russian River (Pacific Ocean estuary pictured) is named for the Russian trappers who explored it in the early 19th century?
... that a pencil sharpener, frequently found in the San Francisco Bay Area, "is a device for sharpening a pencil's point by shaving the end of the pencil"? Well, all right, you probably did.

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