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The street grid west of Larkin was laid out in the 1880s and soon acquired the name "The Fillmore" after the street hosting a new core commercial area. [3] Streetcar service on Fillmore started in July 1895; the following month the Fillmore Counterbalance was installed to traverse the steep 24.54% grade of Pacific Heights between Green and Broadway.
The Progress received local and national recognition, including a 3-star review from the San Francisco Chronicle, [13] and inclusion on Esquire magazine's list of Best New Restaurants in America. [14] The restaurant was the only new restaurant to receive a Michelin star in the 2017 Michelin Guide for the San Francisco Bay Area. [15]
Several countries have consulates in Pacific Heights. They include Italy, [13] Greece, [14] Vietnam, [15] South Korea, [16] China, [17] and Germany. [18] Most of the neighborhood's boutiques and restaurants can be found along Fillmore Street, south of Pacific Avenue.
The Western Addition is located between Van Ness Avenue, the Richmond District, the Haight-Ashbury and Lower Haight neighborhoods, and Pacific Heights.. Today, the term Western Addition is generally used in two ways: to denote either the development's original geographic area or the eastern portion of the neighborhood (also called the Fillmore District) that was redeveloped in the 1950s.
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 ...
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The Magic Pan logo, ca 1970s Guest Receipt from 1975. The Magic Pan is a small American chain of fast-food and take-away creperies using the recipes of a now-closed chain of full-service restaurants that specialized in crêpes, popular in the early 1970s through early 1990s, which peaked at 110 Magic Pan locations [when?] throughout the United States and Canada.
Hayes Valley is served by several San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI) buses, including the #21, which runs through Hayes Valley on its east-west route between Golden Gate Park and the Ferry Building, the #5 (also east-west), the #22 (runs north-south along Fillmore Street) and the #6 and #7, which both run east-west along Haight.