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City Lights was the inspiration of Peter D. Martin, who relocated from New York City to San Francisco in the 1940s to teach sociology.He first used City Lights, in homage to the Chaplin film, in 1952 as the title of a magazine, publishing early work by such key Bay Area writers as Philip Lamantia, Pauline Kael, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Ferlinghetti himself, as "Lawrence Ferling".
San Francisco, 1865–1932: Politics, Power, and Urban Development. University of California Press. Richards, Rand (2007). Historic San Francisco: A Concise History and Guide. ISBN 978-1879367050. Ryan, Mary P. (1997). Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Historic bars and saloons in San Francisco were some of the earliest businesses during the formation of the city. Many of the first businesses to spring up in San Francisco during the California Gold Rush era (1848–1855) supported the influx of new men, including bars and saloons, [1] breweries, [2] horse racing tracks, [3] and others forms of entertainment.
Marcus Books (formerly "Success Printing" and "Success Books"), was founded in 1960, and is the oldest bookstore that specializes in African-American literature, history, and culture in the United States. [1] [2] For many years, it has been located in the Western Addition neighborhood of San Francisco, with a second location in Oakland, California.
The Black Hawk was a San Francisco nightclub that featured live jazz performances during its period of operation from 1949 to 1963. It was located on the corner of Turk Street and Hyde Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin District. Guido Caccienti owned the club along with Johnny and Helen Noga.
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Operation Ivy playing at Gilman. As early as 1984, punk rock fan and Maximumrocknroll founder Tim Yohannan began thinking about the establishment of an all ages music space in the San Francisco Bay Area where bands could play and interact with audience members free of the structure of conventional music promotion. [2]
San Francisco Call [6] San Francisco Chronicle; San Francisco Evening Bulletin; San Francisco Examiner; San Francisco Herald; San Francisco Independent; San Francisco Progress (1918–1988) [7] [8] SF Weekly; Shinsekai asahi shinbun (New World Sun, 1932–1941) [1] Shin sekai (New World, 1912–1932) [1] Sinhan Minbo; South San Francisco ...