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This is a list of festivals and fairs in the San Francisco Bay Area, both ongoing and defunct. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
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 Street is a street in San Francisco, California which starts in the Lower Haight neighborhood and travels northward through the Fillmore District and Pacific Heights and ends in the Marina District. It serves as the main thoroughfare and namesake for the Fillmore District neighborhood. The street is named after American President ...
The two-week Chinese New Year Festival and Parade, sponsored by Southwest Airlines in recent years, includes two fairs, the Chinese New Year Flower Fair and Chinatown Community Street Fair, the Miss Chinatown USA pageant, and concludes with the parade. Miss Chinatown USA is traditionally present at the parade, as is a Golden Dragon which is ...
San Francisco's Japantown celebrates two major festivals every year: The Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival (held for two weekends every April), [20] and the Nihonmachi Street Fair, held one weekend in the month of August. [21] The Cherry Blossom Festival takes place over the course of two weekends.
The Fillmore is a historic music venue in San Francisco, California. Built in 1912 and originally named the Majestic Hall , it became the Fillmore Auditorium in 1954. [ 1 ] It is in Western Addition , on the edge of the Fillmore District and Upper Fillmore neighborhood.
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 ...
Following the closure of the Haight Street Chutes, the amusement moved to Fulton Street in the Inner Richmond District, [5] [5] opening in May. [6] In 1909 the Fulton Chutes were closed, the property was sold to a developer. [7] Irving Ackerman, the son of the original owner relocated the operation to Fillmore Street. [8] [7] [9] [10]