3/85Chances that an adult in the San Francisco Bay Area has completed est training: 1 in 69
11/87Reported cases of rectal gonorrhea in San Francisco in 1980: 5,098
4/87Percentage of Iowans who say they would rather spend a weekend in Des Moines than in San Francisco: 31
8/87Vials of bleach that will be distributed to IV-drug users in San Francisco this year: 14,000
12/89Rank of the day after the San Francisco earthquake, among days with the most long-distance calls ever made: 1
12/90Phone number for the hot line of the Society for Secular Armageddonism, in San Francisco: 673-3666
5/92Applications requested this year from the San Francisco Municipal Railway for one graffiti-cleaning job: 15,000
4/93Percentage change, since 1991, in sales of rubber chickens at House of Magic in San Francisco: +150
12/94Rank of drug overdose, among the most common causes of accidental death in San Francisco last year: 1
12/95Price of a sheet of “undipped” blotter-acid art signed by Timothy Leary, from San Francisco’s ArtRock Gallery: $225
8/96Price of a prosthetic nose at Hello Gorgeous!!, a San Francisco boutique devoted to Barbra Streisand: $79
6/97Combined number of root canals performed last year on two Kodiak bears at the San Francisco Zoo: 7
5/98Price a San Francisco hotel charges guests per one-minute phone session with its on-call psychotherapist: $2
3/99Date and time of the annual pi celebration held at San Francisco’s Exploratorium: 3/14, 1:59
4/01Percentage of San Francisco Opera employees who claim to have been sickened by theatrical fog or smoke: 39
9/01Estimated number of sign-language signs in the vocabulary of Koko, a San Francisco gorilla: 1,000
8/03Number of years San Francisco has given itself to realize the goal of recycling all of its trash: 17
12/05Number of homeless San Franciscans hired to be extras in a movie with Will Smith as a formerly homeless millionaire: 250
Amount they were paid hourly: $8.62