Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Grant Avenue in San Francisco, California, is one of the oldest streets in the city's Chinatown district. It runs in a north–south direction starting at Market Street in the heart of downtown and dead-ending past Francisco Street in the North Beach district.
A plaque map of San Francisco's Chinatown. Current name Former name ... Grant Avenue: Dupont Street: 都板街 Hang Ah Alley: 香亞街/香雅巷 Jack Kerouac Alley:
The Chinatown centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street in San Francisco, California, (Chinese: 唐人街; pinyin: tángrénjiē; Jyutping: tong4 jan4 gaai1) is the oldest Chinatown in North America and one of the largest Chinese enclaves outside Asia.
In 1956, the Chinatown Improvement Committee, appointed by Mayor George Christopher, made the archway its top priority; [11]: 148–151 the proposal initially included two gates: one at Grant and Bush for Chinatown, and another at Pacific and Kearny for the Barbary Coast red-light district. [13] Two design drawings were shown in December 1956. [14]
The Street of Gamblers (Ross Alley) by Arnold Genthe (1898) Ross Alley was initially built in 1849, adjacent to the house of the pioneer merchant Charles L. Ross, from whom the name is derived. The original name was Stout's Alley , however, for Dr. Arthur Breese Stout, who had purchased Ross's house, which stood near the present-day corner of ...
Sacramento Street – a street that has occupied by the Chinese since the Gold Rush. [2]: 83–106 Grant Avenue – the oldest street in the city. Rezoned in the 1980s as a major shopping corridor, it reflects the merchandising methods of the newer immigrants. [2]: 107–155 Stockton Street – the main commercial district for residents.
Jack Kerouac Alley, formerly Adler Alley or Adler Place, is a one-way alleyway in San Francisco, California, that connects Grant Avenue in Chinatown, and Columbus Avenue in North Beach. [1] The alley is named after Jack Kerouac, a Beat Generation writer who used to frequent the pub and bookstore adjacent to the alley. [2]
Between 1864/65 and his death in January 1880, the San Francisco eccentric and folk hero known as Emperor Norton is documented to have lived in the Eureka Lodgings, a rooming house located at 624 Commercial Street, between Montgomery and Kearny Streets. The building that housed the Eureka was destroyed in the disaster of April 1906.