WELCOME TO BURLINGAME

Burlingame is a city in San Mateo County, California. It is located on the San Francisco Peninsula and has a significant shoreline on San Francisco Bay. The city is named after diplomat Anson Burlingame. It is renowned for many surviving examples of Victorian architecture and its high residential quality of life. Burlingame was settled by wealthy San Franciscans looking for a better climate for their second homes. Beginning in the 1960s a population increase and its proximity to the San Francisco International Airport, generated airline support services growth. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, Burlingame had a population of 28,158.

Trivia

Burlingame is named after Anson Burlingame who purchased approximately 1,000 acres (4 km²) in what is currently Hillsborough & Burlingame. Anson Burlingame never lived on this property and only visited once or twice.

• Famed California artist Percy Gray lived in Burlingame from 1912 to 1923.
• Burlingame is home to The Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia.
• Burlingame enacted one of the first comprehensive Noise Elements of the General Plan in the nation.
• Scenes from the film Dangerous Minds were filmed on the campus of Burlingame High School in the spring of 1994.
• Bill Amend, author of the comic strip FoxTrot, attended Burlingame High School.
• Tamora Pierce, bestselling children's author, attended Burlingame Intermediate School.
• Grant Baciocco of Throwing Toasters, The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd and host of the Jim Henson Company podcast was born in Burlingame.
• Charles Howard, owner of Seabiscuit, owned a home in Burlingame.
• The ship General Frank M. Coxe is preserved as The Sherman, a floating restaurant, just south of the SF Airport.
• Burlingame is home to the historic Kohl Mansion, where the movie "Flubber" was filmed
• Leo Wyatt from the series Charmed was born in Burlingame