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Haight Street (/ ˈ h eɪ t-/) is the principal street in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, also known as the Upper Haight due to its elevation. The street stretches from Market Street, through the Lower Haight neighborhood, to Stanyan Street in the Upper Haight, at Golden Gate Park. In most blocks it is residential, but in the Upper and ...
Before the completion of the Haight Street Cable Railroad in 1883, what is now the Haight-Ashbury was a collection of isolated farms and acres of sand dunes. The Haight cable car line, completed in 1883, connected the east end of Golden Gate Park with the geographically central Market Street line and the rest of downtown San Francisco.
Boston's is the U.S. and Mexican version of the Boston Pizza franchise. In 1998, a U.S. headquarters was set up in Dallas, Texas. The Boston Pizza name was changed to Boston's The Gourmet Pizza, Restaurant and Sports Bar that same year. Boston's had over 30 stores in the U.S. and 22 in Mexico. [1] [6]
The Renegade Craft Fair in San Francisco; Russell City Blues Festival; San Francisco Blues Festival; San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival and Parade; San Francisco Jazz Festival; San Francisco LovEvolution; San Francisco Juneteenth Festival [2] San Francisco Marathon; San Francisco Pop Festival; San Francisco Pride; San Jose Holiday Parade ...
Haight Street chutes. In 1894, Paul Boyton conceived of the "Paul Boyton's Water Chutes" amusement ride in Chicago. Boyton began licensing the concept, and the attraction caught the attention of San Francisco. [1] In 1895, the "Shoot the Chutes" opened to the public on Haight Street, a few blocks east of Golden Gate Park. [2]
Thunderpussy operated two San Francisco restaurants in the 1960s: the one at 1398 Haight Street (at the corner of Haight and Masonic), which bore her name, featured a late-night delivery service and erotic desserts such as "The Montana Banana", which was an unsplit banana, representing a phallus, served "erect" in a food service "boat" with two ...
Bound Together is an anarchist bookstore and visitor attraction on Haight Street in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. Its Lonely Planet review in 2016, commenting on its multiple activities, states that it "makes us tools of the state look like slackers". [1] The bookstore carries new and used books as well as local authors. [2]
Haight-Ashbury — a neighborhood in San Francisco, in the Western Addition section of the city. Pages in category "Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.