South Of San Francisco: GOLDEN GATE, in western California, is a strait about 5 miles (8 km) long and 1 to 2 miles (1.6 to 3.2 km) wide that connects San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. Its channel between the hills of San Francisco on the south of San Francisco and the rocky headlands of Marin county on the north is striking. The channel is about 400 feet (120 meters) deep and is used by large vessels. The Golden Gate Bridge spans the strait.
In addition to the Golden Gate Bridge, the bay is spanned toward the north by the Richmond-San Raiael Bridge; toward the south of San Francisco by the San Mateo Toll and the Dumbarton Toll bridges; and between the San Francisco docks and the East Bay cities by the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (1936), with a total length of 8 miles. Docking facilities around the bay area include about 18 miles of berthing space. History records that the bay was first entered by Sir Francis Drake in 1579.
SAN FRANCISCO STATE COLLEGE,a state coeducational institution, located on a 94-acre campus near Lake Merced in south of San Franciscowestern San Francisco, Calif. Established in 1899 as San Francisco State Normal School, it became the San Francisco State Teachers College in 1921, and a state college under its present name in 1935, offering courses in liberal arts and sciences to supplement the professional work in education. In 1945 the college was authorized a five-year program for providing general secondary school credentials.
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