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The hotel opened on May 25, 1964, as the San Francisco Hilton.Built at a cost of $29 million [1] and designed by architect William B. Tabler, the 18-story, 1200-room structure was known as a motel within a hotel [7] due to a design featuring a series of ramps in the middle of the building, allowing guests to drive their cars directly to seven of the hotel's lower floors and park adjacent to ...
Macy's followed up with a major expansion of the store, incorporating 170 O'Farrell Street to the west, in 1948, commissioning the original architect of the 1928 building, Louis Parson Hobart. [ 7 ] The new addition, costing a reported $6,500,000 (($82.4 million in 2023) opened in September 1949, matched the façades of the older store, except ...
California Street; Fell Street runs from near the terminus of the Central Freeway towards Golden Gate Park, turning into Lincoln Way. Geary Boulevard splits into Geary Street and O'Farrell Street east of Gough Street. Fulton Street runs along the northern length of Golden Gate Park; Lincoln Way runs along the southern length of Golden Gate Park
Block bounded by Franklin Street, Geary Boulevard, and Starr King Way July 10, 1971 41 Saint Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church: 1135 O'Farrell Street (vacated portion) July 10, 1971 42 Dennis T. Sullivan Memorial Fire Chief's Home: 870 Bush Street October 10, 1971 43 Cable Car Barn and Power House: 1201 Mason Street October 10, 1971
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It is located on O'Farrell Street in the Tenderloin neighborhood on the same block as the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre. It is known for its decorative balconies, columns, and frescoes and for its history of unique entertainment, which has included burlesque dancing as well as jazz, folk music, and rock and roll concerts. The capacity of ...
Property owners forced O'Farrell to retain the earlier Vioget-drawn north-south Yerba Buena street grid rather than conform the roads to the hilly topography; they also forced him to establish the diagonally-offset grid south of Market with larger 600-by-400-foot (180 by 120 m) blocks aligned with Mission Street for Happy Valley.
O'Farrell-Jones-Hyde: Began at Market and O'Farrell, down O'Farrell to Jones (there was a cable car shuttle from Market and Jones to O'Farrell and Jones), down Jones to Pine, down Pine to Hyde, down Hyde to North Point (used California St. style double-ended cable cars).