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After three years, Graham closed the Fillmore West on July 4, 1971, with five nights of shows featuring such San Francisco bands as Santana, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service (who headlined the final performance at the venue) [19] [20] [21] and a poetry reading from Allen Ginsberg.
The Saloon first opened in 1861, and was originally owned by Ferdinand E. Wagner. Wagner was the son of a liquor merchant from Stundwiller Bas-Rhin, France.In 1836 Wagner migrated to Louisiana, married a native of Cannes nine years later, to eventually open a saloon there.
Founded in 1921, it is one of the oldest synagogues west of the Mississippi River. [1] A member of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, Congregation Beth Sholom is a hub of the Bay Area Jewish community.
The San Francisco crime family, also known as the Lanza crime family or the San Francisco Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in San Francisco, California. The syndicate mainly originated in the Little Italy neighborhood of North Beach and was organized in the early 1930s by Francesco "Frank" Lanza.
The uninhabited northeastern area of San Francisco was called El Paraje de Yerba Buena (The Place of the Good Herb), derived from the Spanish geographical term paraje, meaning "place", "camp", or "stopping point" and yerba buena, the Spanish name for plants in the mint family, used in Alta California for Clinopodium douglasii, which grew abundantly in this area.
Location Address Opened Capacity Notes Fillmore West: San Francisco Bay Area South of Market: 10 S Van Ness Ave San Francisco, CA 94103-1227 1968 3,000 Closed in 1971 Fillmore East: New York metropolitan area: East Village: 105 2nd Ave New York City, NY 10003-8380 1968 2,654 Closed in 1971 The Fillmore at TLA: Greater Philadelphia Queen Village ...
Along the north side of Folsom Street between Essex and Spear streets, the former freeway right-of-way was transferred to the City of San Francisco and included in the Transbay Redevelopment Plan, which calls for the development of over 2,500 new homes, 3,000,000 square feet (280,000 m 2) of new office and commercial space, and 100,000 square ...
The Financial District is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, United States, that serves as its main central business district and had 372,829 jobs according to U.S. census tracts as of 2012–2016. [5]