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The Sunset Café, also known as the Grand Terrace Café or simply Grand Terrace, [13] operated during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. It was one of the most important jazz clubs in America, especially during the period between 1917 and 1928 when Chicago became a creative capital of jazz innovation and again during the emergence of bebop in the ...
The Beach Chalet is a historic two-story Spanish Colonial Revival-style building, [2] located at the far western end of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.The building is owned by the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department; and the tenants are the Beach Chalet Brewery and Restaurant, and the Park Chalet.
Mission Terrace is a neighborhood in the south-central part of San Francisco. It is bounded on the north and west by Interstate 280 , to the east by Mission St. and to the south by Geneva Ave. Mission Terrace borders Glen Park and Bernal Heights to the north, Excelsior to the east, Outer Mission to the south, and Sunnyside , City College , and ...
Historic bars and saloons in San Francisco were some of the earliest businesses during the formation of the city. Many of the first businesses to spring up in San Francisco during the California Gold Rush era (1848–1855) supported the influx of new men, including bars and saloons, [1] breweries, [2] horse racing tracks, [3] and others forms of entertainment.
Presidio Terrace is a small, extremely affluent [1] gated [2] neighborhood in San Francisco that was the first of the master-planned communities built in the western part of the city. It consists of 36 large lots laid out around a single privately owned street, also called Presidio Terrace, which takes the form of a two-way access street ...
The first known cafes in Pest date back to 1714 when a house intended to serve as a Cafe (Balázs Kávéfőző) was purchased. Minutes of the Pest City Council from 1729 mention complaints by the Balázs café and Franz Reschfellner Cafe against the Italian-originated café of Francesco Bellieno for selling underpriced coffee. [54]
In 1922, the Ingleside Presbyterian Church building was completed by Joseph A. Leonard; since November 22, 2016 it is listed as one of the San Francisco Designated Landmarks. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It started as a church population primarily made of white people of European-descent, and after World War II , the demographic shifted to a primarily African ...
San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. Spider Kelly, born James Curtin, was a lightweight boxer and trainer who immigrated to San Francisco from Ireland while an adolescent. [49] But Kelly gained more fame by opening this dance hall in the building formerly occupied by the Seattle Saloon at 574 Pacific Street. [50]