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Pier 39 is a shopping center and popular tourist attraction built on a pier in San Francisco, California.At Pier 39, there are shops, restaurants, a video arcade, street performances, the Aquarium of the Bay, virtual 3D rides, and views of California sea lions hauled out on docks on Pier 39's marina.
The Streets of San Francisco: Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950–1972. Bean, Walton (1967). Boss Rueff's San Francisco: The Story of the Union Labor Party, Big Business, and the Graft Prosecution. Carlsson, Chris; Elliott, LisaRuth (2011). Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968–1978.
Aerial view of San Francisco, looking south, with Fisherman's Wharf just left of center, directly above a lone sailboat. One of the busiest and well known tourist attractions in the western United States, Fisherman's Wharf is best known for being the location of Pier 39, the Cannery Shopping Center, Ghirardelli Square, a Ripley's Believe it or Not museum, the Musée Mécanique, Madame Tussauds ...
Even in San Francisco, once a bastion of now-closed lesbian bars like Maud's and Lexington Club, only three venues are listed by the project: Wild Side West, which opened in 1962; Scarlet Fox wine ...
Opening day for the short lived operation of Alan Pegler's #4472, The Flying Scotsman along San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. Seen running on Jefferson St., Pegler is in the engineers seat and riding the tender is Joseph Silva, manager of the State Belt RR. (1972)
The Washington Square Bar & Grill was a landmark restaurant adjoining Washington Square in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood (Powell at Union streets). Known widely as the Washbag, so named by columnist Herb Caen as a play on words, it was a favorite gathering place for a generation of writers, politicians, musicians, and social elite.
Tommy's Place (formerly Tommy's Joint) and 12 Adler Place were two interconnected lesbian bars in the North Beach district of San Francisco. Together, they created the first business in San Francisco that was owned and managed by out lesbians, beginning in the late 1940s. [ 1 ]
The Westin St. Francis, formerly known as St. Francis Hotel, is a hotel located on Powell and Geary Streets in San Francisco, adjacent to the whole western edge of Union Square. The two 12-story south wings of the hotel were built in 1904, and the double-width north wing was completed in 1913, initially as apartments for permanent guests. [5]