California 2015

P000-050 Christmas day of 2015 - San Francisco, California
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P001 ... our dinner dishes at Cioppino's in Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco... Linguini with claims, white wine lemon butter sauce...
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P002 ... Cioppino signature dish - a bountiful seafood extravaganza of dungeness crab, clams, mussels, snapper, calamari, shrimp, and tomatoes braised in a fennel...
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P003 ... seafood risotto - fresh calamari, shrimp, and mussels steamed in a reduced shellfish stock...
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P004 ... local dungeness crab cakes with homemade pesto aioli sauce, rice medley and seasonal vegetables...
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P005 ... Seafood fettucine - shrimp, clams, and mussels, green onions and chopped celery in a slightly spicy tomato cream sauce...
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P006 ... on a beautiful boxing day morning, only two tourists onboard this historic cable car running along the Market Street Railway Powell-Mason line... San...
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P008 ... leafless interesting looking trees lining this quiet San Francisco bay area street... let's continue our walking exercise and sightseeing on such a...
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P009-018 Saints Peter and Paul Church, known as the “Italian Cathedral” founded by four Salesian priests in 1884; a Roman Catholic Church in San Francisco's North Beach...
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P010 ... designed in the Gothic Revival style with Romanesque details, the interior of the church constructed using Carrara marble from Pietrasanta in Italy; the...
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P011-017 ... a total of 129 stained glass windows throughout the church made in San Francisco by immigrant craftsmen from European workshops...
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P011 ... the high altar completed in 1926, made from carved white Carrara marble weighing over 40 tons; the altar featuring statutes of St. Peter and St. Paul on...
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P014 ... a replica of Michelangelo's La Pieta, Sts. Peter and Paul Church...
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P019 ... view from Washington Square Park directly across the Filbert Street front entrance, its twin lofty spires soaring 191 feet into the sky and the 14-ft rose...
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P020-023 ... the steel and reinforced concrete structure of Saints Peter and Paul Church as, at the time of its construction, one of the tallest buildings in San...
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P020 ... a southeasterly view from Washington Square Park of the TransAmerica Pyramid rising in the backdrop
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P021 ... that's our next stop - Coit Tower to the east further uphill of Filbert Street, let's get going...
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P024 San Francisco in northern California, a city on the tip of a peninsula surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, known for its hilly landscape,...
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P026 ... North Beach, a primarily Italian neighborhood, with dozens of authentic Italian restaurants and cafes, conveniently located in the northeast part of San...
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P027 ... a west-northwest view from uphill on Filbert Street - Russian Hill, Fisherman's Wharf neighborhoods and the Golden Gate Bridge tower...
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