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Post Street in 1942, showing the house later occupied by Bop City (with sign "Nippon Drug Co."). Photo: Dorothea Lange. Bop City (also known as Jimbo's Bop City) was a jazz club operated by John "Jimbo" Edwards in San Francisco from 1949 to 1965. It was situated in the back room of a Victorian house at 1690 Post Street, in the Western Addition ...
Downtown: 158: San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park: ... South San Francisco Opera House: March 21, 2011 : 4701–4705 Third St. and 1601 Newcomb Ave.
Jack's Restaurant was opened 161 years ago in 1863 by George Voges in downtown San Francisco, California. [ 4 ] It became a brewery in 2002, and permanently closed in May 2009, 15 years ago. It has been a San Francisco landmark since 1981.
The Tenderloin has been a downtown residential community since shortly after the California Gold Rush in 1849. However, the name "Tenderloin" does not appear on any maps of San Francisco prior to the 1930s; before then, it was labeled as "Downtown", although it was informally referred to as "the Tenderloin" as early as the 1890s.
By the 1870s it became apparent that San Francisco was in dire need of a federal building to house the federal courts and the post office that were located in various downtown buildings. In 1887 a commission delegated to select a site reported that the $350,000 allocated by the U.S. Congress was insufficient and the sum was raised to $1,250,000.
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"Effects of the Earthquake, Oct. 21, 1868, Railroad House, Clay St." (San Francisco) C. E. Watkins: Pacific Coast series (1868) image credit: Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views 61