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North Beach was home to the first lesbian bar in San Francisco, Mona's 440 Club. Mona Sargeant and her husband Jimmie opened Mona's in 1936 in a North Beach basement as a small underground bar celebrating the end of Prohibition. Once Mona's gained enough popularity between the gay community and tourists, the club moved to a much larger location ...
A map on SFGate depicts the Chinatown, North Beach, and Telegraph Hill areas as bounded by Sacramento Street, Taylor Street, Bay Street, and the San Francisco Bay. [6]The neighborhood is bounded by Vallejo Street to the south, Sansome Street to the east, Francisco Street to the north and Powell Street and Columbus Avenue to the west, where the northwestern corner of Telegraph Hill overlaps ...
San Francisco's North Beach district is considered the Little Italy of the city, and was once home to a significant Italian-American community. San Francisco, Marin County [138] and the Lamorinda area [139] all have substantial Jewish communities.
Nob Hill is a luxury destination in San Francisco, owing to its numerous Michelin-starred restaurants, [12] boutiques, cultural institutions, art galleries, and historic landmarks. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The neighborhood is named after one of San Francisco's original "Seven Hills" and it contains the Lower Nob Hill Apartment Hotel District (also known ...
Baker Beach is a public beach on the peninsula of San Francisco, California, United States. The beach lies on the shore of the Pacific Ocean in the northwest of the city. It is roughly a 0.5 mi (800 m) long, beginning just south of Golden Gate Point (where the Golden Gate Bridge connects with the peninsula), extending southward toward the ...
A 2021 map shows the impact of a tsunami hitting the San Fransisco area - and the devastation it could cause. The map was thrust back into the spotlight Thursday when a 7.0-magnitude earthquake ...
The Atkinson House (1853) is one of the oldest houses still standing in San Francisco, and possibly one of the first examples of Italianate-style architecture in the city. [ 6 ] [ 5 ] [ 7 ] The switchbacks design of Lombard Street was first suggested by property owner Carl Henry [ 8 ] and was built in 1922, [ 9 ] intended to reduce the hill's ...
The North Bay is a subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area, in California, United States. The largest city is Santa Rosa , which is the fifth-largest city in the Bay Area. It is the location of the Napa and Sonoma wine regions , and is the least populous and least urbanized part of the Bay Area.