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Sam Jordan's Bar is a historic building and a former working-class neighborhood bar (open from 1959 to 2019) located at 4004–4006 3rd Street in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco, California, U.S.. [1] [2] [3] It is a San Francisco Designated Landmark (number 263) since February 6, 2013. [4] [5] It also went by the name Sam Jordan's ...
Twin Peaks Tavern is an American historic gay bar.It first opened in 1935 and is located at 401 Castro Street in the Castro District in San Francisco, California. [2] [3] It is one of the most famous bars in the Castro and features prominent oversized windows that were unveiled in 1972, something uncommonly seen in older gay bars. [2]
The outside of the bar in 2020. Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe (also known as "Specs") is a historic bar, located in the North Beach district of San Francisco. The bar is known to be "home to a menagerie of misfits, from strippers and poets to longshoremen and merchant marines."
Leather pride flag in front of the San Francisco Eagle Bar. San Francisco Eagle (also SF Eagle, or simply The Eagle; formerly Eagle Tavern) is a gay bar in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood, in the U.S. state of California. [2] [3] The bar caters to the bear community and the leather subculture. [4] [5] Lex Montiel is one of the bar ...
Beginning in the late 1940s, a homophobic moral panic and wave of repression swept across the United States, including in San Francisco. This was known as the Lavender Scare. [16] In 1951, the San Francisco Police Department defined a new category of crime: "sex offenses." This category was designated for nonviolent sexual crimes outside of ...
A historic bar located at 1901 Union Street in San Francisco's Cow Hollow neighborhood. [18] It was founded as “The Alley”. [5] The sports bar saloon has been run by a single family for four generations and over a hundred years, the Ferroni family. [5] In 2023, the Ferroni family opened a second floor upscale cocktail lounge. [19]
Muni Stop on Junipero Serra Blvd near 19th Avenue. Junipero Serra Boulevard begins at exit 44 (Avalon Drive) of I-280, and travels north along the east side of I-280 as a four-lane divided highway with minimal intersections, just east of the ridge line of the San Francisco Peninsula that Skyline Boulevard travels along.
The InterContinental Mark Hopkins San Francisco is a luxury hotel located at the top of Nob Hill in San Francisco, California. The hotel is managed by the InterContinental Hotels Group. The chain operates over 5,000 hotels and resorts in approximately 75 nations. The Mark Hopkins is the oldest InterContinental in the United States.