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Spider Kelly, born James Curtin, was a lightweight boxer and trainer who immigrated to San Francisco from Ireland while an adolescent. [25] Formerly the Seattle Saloon at 574 Pacific Street in San Francisco the property was bought by "Spider" Kelly in 1919 and reopened specifically as a black and tan club.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
[1] [3] [4] Starting at age 19 she worked as a political activist, first in Portland, Oregon on behalf of an environmental organization, then later for a women's clinic based in San Francisco. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 1991, at the age of 22, Polzine relocated to North Carolina , and entered the restaurant industry as a dishwasher before eventually being ...
Caffè Trieste is an internationally known coffeehouse, retail store, and former franchise in San Francisco. The original cafe, opened in 1956, was the first espresso-based coffeehouse on the West Coast of the United States. [1] [2] Caffe Trieste is considered a San Francisco institution and a local hub for poets, writers, and beat culture. [3] [4]
The Tonga Room & Hurricane Bar is a restaurant and tiki bar in the Fairmont San Francisco hotel in Nob Hill, San Francisco, California. Named after the South Pacific nation of Tonga, this dining and entertainment venue opened in 1945. [1] [2] The Tonga Room replaced the Terrace Plunge, an indoor swimming pool that was installed in the Fairmont ...
The SF Net logo. SF NET Coffee House Network was an electronic bulletin board system created by Wayne Gregori in San Francisco, California in July 1991. [1] [2] [3]The network consisted of coin-operated, public access computers installed in many Bay Area coffee houses.