San Francisco Ballet School established its first ballet training program in 1958; beginning in 1959, the Foundation offered grants covering tuition and expenses for advanced ballet students selected to attend either New York City Ballet’s School of American Ballet or San Francisco Ballet School. In 1963, the Foundation then awarded a substantial ten-year grant to the SF Ballet School, establishing it, along with the School of American Ballet, as vocational schools of national stature. The grants awarded by the Foundation allowed the two schools to conduct nationwide auditions, with the SF Ballet School focusing on the Western states. When the grant ended, the School
Third Street (San Francisco) Third Street (San Francisco) Third Street, formerly Kentucky Street in the Dogpatch and Railroad Avenue in the Bayview, is a north-south street running through the Downtown, Mission Bay, Potrero Point, Dogpatch, and the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood in San Francisco, California. The road turns into Kearny Street north of Market Street and connects into Bayshore Boulevard, south of Meade Avenue Major League Baseball's San Francisco Giants play at AT&T Park on the intersection Third and King. The majority of the street is served by the T Third Street light rail line. It was the first new light rail line in San