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San Francisco Bay, August 1972 San Francisco PCC-type streetcar 1167 southbound on Church Street. San Francisco in the 1970s was a global hub of culture. It was known worldwide for hippies and radicals. The city was heavily affected by drugs, prostitution and crime.
The completion of the Union Street Stores inspired the formation of a commercial district along a five-block stretch of a deteriorating area in San Francisco that became a popular commercial destination in the city and “charting the course and the ambiance of the well-known shopping and dining mecca we know today.” [3] Along with the historic Ghirardelli Square and The Cannery (a former ...
The V. C. Morris Gift Shop is located at 140 Maiden Lane in downtown San Francisco, California, United States, and was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948. The store was used by Wright as a physical prototype , or proof of concept for the circular ramp at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum .
Hale Bros. operated a store in the Mission District at 2554 Mission near 21st Street, a branch of Oakland-based Whitthorn & Swan opened in 1925, which Hale's wholly acquired in 1926. [2] [18] It continued to operate as Hale’s sole San Francisco store until the mid-1960s even after the main Market Street store closed in 1963.
Jack Mogannam, manager of Sam’s Cable Car Lounge in downtown San Francisco, relishes the days when his bar stayed open past midnight every night, welcoming crowds that jostled on the streets ...
The Emporium Department Store Final Logo Exterior of the old downtown San Francisco flagship location. The Emporium, from 1880 to 1995 Emporium-Capwell, was a mid-line department store chain headquartered in San Francisco, California, which operated for 100 years—from 1896 to 1996.
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]
San Francisco. Year-over-year increase in inflow/outflow ratio:-35% Median annual income: $112,449 Typical monthly rent for a one-bedroom: $1,983 Typical home value: $1,480,497 Cost-of-living ...