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Fort Mason, in San Francisco, California is a former United States Army post located in the northern Marina District, alongside San Francisco Bay. Fort Mason served as an Army post for more than 100 years, initially as a coastal defense site [3] and subsequently as a military port facility. During World War II, it was the principal port for the ...
October 10, 1975 (Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, 2905 Hyde Street: Fisherman's Wharf: Flat-bottomed scow schooner built in 1891 to haul goods on and around San Francisco Bay and river delta areas.
Saint Boniface Church (1908), 133–175 Golden Gate Avenue; San Francisco Designated Landmark-listed [6] Herald Hotel (1910), 302–316 Eddy Street; NRHP-listed [6] and designed by architect Alfred Henry Jacobs; Ambassador Hotel (1911), 55 Mason Street [5] Cameo Apartments (1916), 485 Eddy Street (now 481 Eddy Street); designed by Rousseau and ...
The San Francisco Michelin Guide was the second North American city chosen to have its own Michelin Guide. Unlike the other U.S. guides which focus mainly in the city proper, the San Francisco guide includes all the major cities in the Bay Area: San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and Berkeley, as well as Wine Country, which includes Napa and ...
Before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Van Ness Avenue was known as "the city’s grandest boulevard, lined with Victorian mansions and impressive churches" (San Francisco Chronicle). [6] After the earthquake, the street was used as a firebreak by the US Army , dynamiting almost all buildings on its eastern side in an ultimately successful ...
In the 1930s, with the completion of the nearby Golden Gate Bridge, Lombard Street (now Highway 101) was widened, and soon developed into a strip of roadside motels. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake caused severe liquefaction of the fill upon which the neighborhood is built, causing major damage including a small firestorm .
In any event, historians do agree that there was a Poodle Dog restaurant from San Francisco's earliest days. [12] Poodle Dog at Mason and Eddy, after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Old Poodle Dog (c. 1908) at 824–826 Eddy Street at Van Ness. The Poodle Dog quickly became a popular restaurant beloved by San Franciscans.
Beach and Mason station is a streetcar station in San Francisco, California, serving the San Francisco Municipal Railway's E Embarcadero and F Market & Wharves heritage railway lines. It is located on Beach Street at Mason Street. The station opened on March 4, 2000, with the streetcar's extension to Fisherman's Wharf. [2]