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The street grid west of Larkin was laid out in the 1880s and soon acquired the name "The Fillmore" after the street hosting a new core commercial area. [3] Streetcar service on Fillmore started in July 1895; the following month the Fillmore Counterbalance was installed to traverse the steep 24.54% grade of Pacific Heights between Green and Broadway.
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English: 1712 Fillmore Street is on the list of San Francisco Designated Landmarks for its history as Marcus Books and Jimbo's Bop City. Date 6 August 2017, 16:31:47
The Fillmore district was created in the 1880s to provide new space for the city to grow in an effort to address overcrowding. [11] After the 1906 earthquake Fillmore Street, which had largely avoided heavy damage, temporarily became a major commercial center as the city's downtown rebuilt and began a period where the district where migrant groups from Jews to Japanese and then African ...
Fillmore District — a neighborhood in San Francisco, in the Western Addition section of the city. Pages in category "Fillmore District, San Francisco" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The Fillmore Counterbalance was a streetcar device operated by the Market Street Railway (MSRy) in San Francisco. It aided the company's 22 Fillmore line in traversing the steep northern slope of Fillmore Street from 1895 to 1941. The weight of a descending car helped lift ascending cars.
California Street; Fell Street runs from near the terminus of the Central Freeway towards Golden Gate Park, turning into Lincoln Way. Geary Boulevard splits into Geary Street and O'Farrell Street east of Gough Street. Fulton Street runs along the northern length of Golden Gate Park; Lincoln Way runs along the southern length of Golden Gate Park
Named after The Fillmore at the intersection of Fillmore Street and Geary Boulevard (which was Graham's principal venue from 1966 to 1968), it stood at the southwest corner of Market Street and South Van Ness Avenue in the Civic Center district. In June 2018, the top two floors of the building reopened as SVN West, a new concert and corporate ...