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2009 PREFERRED HOTELS
The Bowl's preferred hotels provide quality lodging with the highest standard of comfort and hospitality. Each hotel will offer a preferred rate and/or a special package for fans attending the Bowl.
2009 Preferred Hotels
Westin St. Francis
Hyatt Regency San Francisco
San Francisco Marriott Union Square
Hilton Fisherman's Wharf
The Omni Hotel
Hotel Monaco
Hotel Palomar
Serrano Hotel
HOTEL LOCATIONS (2009)
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- Marriott Union Square
- Hilton Fisherman's Wharf
- Hyatt Regency San Francisco
- The Omni Hotel
- Westin St Francis
- Hotel Monaco
- Hotel Palomar
- Serrano Hotel
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San Francisco enjoys a moderate climate throughout the year with average temperatures ranging between 50 and 68 degrees. Summer months bring sunshine, light breezes, and the famous San Francisco fog. Yearly rainfall in San Francisco rarely exceeds 18 inches with approximately 3 inches falling in December.
San Francisco Tidbits:
- Early in the nineteenth century, ships from Boston began to visit the Spanish towns and missions of the California coast bringing settlers.
- It was in the first part of January, 1848, when the gold was discovered at Coloma, California, starting the California Gold Rush of 1849.
- San Francisco Ballet, founded in 1933, is America's oldest professional ballet company.
- Roger Baldwin founded the ACLU (The American Civil Liberties Union) in 1920 in San Francisco.
- The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge carries more traffic than any other toll bridge in the world - over 270,000 vehicles each day.
- The Golden Gate Bridge was completed and opened to pedestrian traffic on May 27, 1937. The following day it was opened to vehicular traffic.
- The Beat Generation (or "Beatnicks" ) phenomenon of the 1950's, was named by Jack Kerouac in 1948 in San Francisco.
- Joltin' Joe Di Maggio married Marilyn Monroe at San Francisco's City Hall in a civil ceremony on January 15, 1954.
- The San Francisco Diggers became one of the legendary groups in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood during the years 1966 to 1968 leading to the popularization of the hippie movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- On August 13, 1965, The Matrix, San Francisco's first folk night club, opened in the Marina District. A new band called "The Jefferson Airplane" performed.
- On December 10, 1965, the band, The Warlocks became "The Grateful Dead," and debut with the new name at the Fillmore Auditorium for the second San Francisco Mime Troupe Appeal Party.
- The Beatles performed in concert at San Francisco's Candlestick Park in their last public appearance together on August 29, 1966
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