Wax Museum at Fishermans Wharf attraction operator, (second only to Disney), signed a multi year real estate transaction with the Wax Museum Entertainment Complex Building to invest $35 million to open both the world famous Madame Tussauds Wax Attraction and San Francisco Dungeon at Fisherman’s Wharf. Madame Tussauds San Francisco opened for business on June 26, 2014 and features all new wax figures created by Madame Tussauds. The last day of business for The Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf was on August 15, 2013. Thomas L. Fong was born in Canton Province, China on January 4, 1913 and grew up in a small village. He
The Most Famous Man in America The Most Famous Man in America The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher is a 2006 biography of the 19th-century American minister Henry Ward Beecher, written by Debby Applegate and published by Doubleday. The book describes Beecher's childhood, ministry, support for the abolition of slavery and other social causes, and widely publicized 1875 trial for adultery. Before publishing the book, Applegate researched and wrote about Beecher for twenty years, starting when she was an undergraduate student at Beecher's alma mater, Amherst College. The book was generally well received by critics. In 2007, it was awarded