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This is a list of festivals and fairs in the San Francisco Bay Area, both ongoing and defunct. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
We all know the Golden City isn’t a cheap place to live or visit as a tourist, but there’s plenty to do here even if you’re on a shoestring budget—you just have to know where to look.
During the California Gold Rush, many Chinese immigrants came to San Francisco to work in gold mines and on railroads in search of wealth and a better life. The earliest recorded New Year's celebration was "a great feast" on February 1, 1851, [7] and the first dragon dance in San Francisco was held for the New Year in 1860. [8]
In answer to this criticism, the Rolling Stones decided to end their tour with a free concert in San Francisco. The concert was originally scheduled to be held at San Jose State University's practice field, as there had recently been a three-day outdoor free festival there with 52 bands and 80,000 attendees. Dirt Cheap Productions was asked to ...
A 9.3 magnitude quake off Alaska, that would be the worst-case for San Francisco,” Adrienne Bechelli, deputy director of San Francisco’s Department of Emergency Management, told ABC7 at the time.
Reports of stalled cars near the Outside Lands music festival, and in other parts of the city, provided an I-told-you-so moment for critics of a new resolution allowing robotaxis to ply the ...
The first proto-leather bar in San Francisco was the Sailor Boy Tavern, which opened in 1938 near the Embarcadero YMCA and catered to U.S. Navy Sailors looking for same-sex sexual encounters. [8] Folsom Street has been the center of San Francisco's men's leather community since the mid-1960s.
In September 2017, the club celebrated the opening of its first owned headquarters, a 24,000 square ft, $33 million building, on the San Francisco waterfront at 110 The Embarcadero. [11] The building was designed by Leddy Maytum Stacy, a San Francisco architectural firm and winner of the American Institute of Architects 2017 Firm Award. [12]