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Club 82 – New York City nightclub (1926–1973) featuring female impersonators; Club My-O-My – New Orleans nightclub (1933–1972) featuring female impersonators. Black Cat Bar – San Francisco queer bar (open 1906–1921; re-opened 1933–1964). The Beige Room – San Francisco gay nightclub featuring female impersonators (1949–1958)
As of 2020, 38 Fortune 500 companies had headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area. [1] San Francisco-based businesses are not listed here; the subset of San Francisco-based businesses by type is at the list of companies based in San Francisco. This list includes extant businesses formerly located in the Bay Area, which have moved, or been ...
The Russian Hill-Paris Block Architectural District is a 1.5-acre (0.61 ha) historic district located in the Russian Hill area of San Francisco, California, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 7, 1988, for architecture. [4] The area is a residential enclave. [5] [6]
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 ...
The cast of The Real World: San Francisco, which aired in 1994, lived in the house at 949 Lombard Street on Russian Hill from February 12 to June 19, 1994. [ 24 ] In Anne Rice 's book The Wolf Gift , the main character, Reuben Golding, grew up in Russian Hill.
William Westerfeld, a German-born confectioner, arrived in San Francisco in the 1870s. By the 1880s, he had established a chain of bakeries. He hired local architect Henry Geilfuss [3] [4] to design for his family of six a 28-room mansion with an adjoining rose garden and carriage house. The house was constructed in 1889 at a cost of $9,985 ...
In 1989 author Ron Fimrite, [7] one of the softball team members, wrote The Square: the Story of a Saloon, describing the restaurant's place in San Francisco's cocktail culture. [8] In 1990 the partners sold the restaurant. Ed and Mary Etta, with Sam Dietsch as a silent partner, opened a larger restaurant, Moose's, on the opposite side of the ...
Interior of the Russian Tea Room in November 2009. Concord Management and Consulting – Russian company; Dacha Diner – Defunct restaurant in Seattle, Washington, U.S. Kachka – Russian restaurant in Portland, Oregon, U.S., Portland, Oregon; Moo Moo Restaurant – Restaurant chain Russia; Moscow Restaurant – Russian restaurant in Beijing