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Comstock Saloon is a historic saloon in San Francisco, California, located in San Francisco's North Beach. The building, since 1907, housed several different bars and owners. [1] [2] The predecessor being the San Francisco Brewing Company (1985–2012), which is the oldest microbrewery in San Francisco.
Defunct restaurants in San Francisco (1 C, 17 P) Pages in category "Defunct restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Housing protesters at San Francisco City Hall, 1977 Demonstrators at the International Hotel in San Francisco, 1977. From 1968–77, the residents were gradually evicted from the International Hotel. The final residents were evicted in 1977, when 400 riot police led an eviction raid on August 4 at 3:00 am. [12]
The Akron (Los Angeles), a Southern California–based "eclectic" department store chain that had specialized in carrying imported goods and unusual items such as parking meters and live Mexican monkeys, and which had stores as far north as San Francisco and far south as San Diego before it was forced to close its stores in 1985 [18] [19] [20]
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 ...
After Tower's departure the restaurant was reopened briefly by new investors under the same name but with a less expensive, Mediterranean concept. [4] In 2004 it became the new location of San Francisco's Trader Vic's, which had been closed since 1994. The Palo Alto location of Stars became a branch of Wolfgang Puck's Spago Restaurant in 1997.
September 10 – 2010 San Bruno explosion in San Bruno, California, six-alarm fire from a gas main killed eight and destroyed dozens of homes. November 15 – 2010 Shanghai fire , China, [ 78 ] high-rise apartment building fire killed at least 53.
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 ...