11 April 2026 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , Greater Los Angeles Area
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Los Angeles Union Station is the main
railroad station in
Los Angeles , California, and the largest
passenger rail terminal in the
Western United States . It opened in May 1939 as the
Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal , replacing
La Grande Station ,
Central Station , and
Salt Lake Station .
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7 April 2026 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , San Francisco Bay Area
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The Santa Clara Valley (
Spanish : Valle de Santa Clara) is a
geologic trough in
Northern California that extends 90 miles (140 km) south–southeast from
San Francisco to
Hollister . The
longitudinal valley is bordered on the west by the
Santa Cruz Mountains and on the east by the
Diablo Range ; the two coastal ranges meet south of Hollister. The
San Francisco Bay borders the valley to the north, and fills much of the northern third of the valley. The valley floor is an
alluvial plain that formed in the
graben (tectonic depression) between the
San Andreas Fault to the west and the
Hayward and
Calaveras faults to the east. Within the valley and surrounding the bay on three sides are the urban communities of
San Mateo County ,
Santa Clara County , and
Alameda County , while the narrow southern reaches of the valley extend into rural
San Benito County to Hollister. In practical terms, the central portion of the Santa Clara Valley is often considered by itself, contained entirely within Santa Clara County.
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30 March 2026 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , San Francisco Bay Area
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Palo Alto (
Spanish for ‘tall stick’) is a
charter city in northwestern
Santa Clara County, California , United States, in the
San Francisco Bay Area , named after a
coastal redwood tree known as
El Palo Alto .
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24 March 2026 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , Architecture , Greater Los Angeles Area , Opera Houses, Theaters, Libraries
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The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South
Grand Avenue in
downtown Los Angeles , California, is the fourth hall of the
Los Angeles Music Center and was designed by
Frank Gehry . It was opened on October 23, 2003. Bounded by Hope Street,
Grand Avenue , and
1st and 2nd streets, it seats 2,265 people and serves, among other purposes, as the home of the
Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the
Los Angeles Master Chorale . The hall is a compromise between a
vineyard-style seating configuration, like the
Berliner Philharmonie by
Hans Scharoun , and a classical shoebox design like the
Vienna Musikverein or the
Boston Symphony Hall .
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17 March 2026 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , Greater Los Angeles Area , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Silicon Beach is the
Westside region of the
Los Angeles metropolitan area that is home to more than 500 technology companies, including
startups . It is particularly applied to the coastal strip from
Los Angeles International Airport north to the
Santa Monica Mountains , but the term may be applied loosely or
colloquially to most anywhere in the
Los Angeles Basin . Startups seeded here include
Snapchat and
Tinder . Major technology companies that opened offices in the region including
Google ,
Yahoo! ,
YouTube ,
BuzzFeed ,
Facebook ,
Salesforce ,
AOL ,
Electronic Arts ,
Roku ,
Sony ,
EdgeCast Networks ,
MySpace ,
Amazon.com ,
Apple, Inc. , and
Netflix . By some 2012 metrics, the region was the second or third-most prominent technology hub in the world.
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19 February 2026 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , Architecture , Greater Los Angeles Area
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The Fine Arts Theatre is a historic theatre located at 8556
Wilshire Boulevard ,
Beverly Hills ,
California ,
United States . It was constructed in 1936. Designed by
B. Marcus Priteca , the Fine Arts Theatre opened as The Regina in 1936. Executed in the
zigzag moderne style, it was remodeled and renamed the Fine Arts Theatre in 1948, premiering
The Red Shoes and playing host to guests such as
Susan Hayward ,
Joan Crawford ,
Ava Gardner , and
Shirley Temple .
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14 February 2026 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , Opera Houses, Theaters, Libraries , San Francisco Bay Area
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The War Memorial Opera House is an
opera house in
San Francisco ,
California ,
United States , located on the western side of
Van Ness Avenue across from the west side/rear facade of the
San Francisco City Hall . It is part of the
San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center . It has been the home of the
San Francisco Opera since opening night in 1932.
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9 February 2026 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General
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Congregation Emanu-El of
San Francisco ,
California is one of the three
oldest Jewish congregations in California , and one of the largest Jewish congregations in the United States. A member of the
Union for Reform Judaism , Congregation Emanu-El is a significant gathering place for the
Bay Area Jewish community .
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7 February 2026 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , Bon appétit , Sport
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Imagine it’s February 8, 2026. You wake up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the air in Santa Clara is practically vibrating. It’s not just any Sunday—it’s Super Bowl Sunday, and this year is the big “LX,” the 60th anniversary.
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