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Summer of Love. The Summer of Love was a major social phenomenon that occurred in San Francisco during the summer of 1967. As many as 100,000 people, mostly young people, hippies, beatniks, and 1960s counterculture figures, converged in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and Golden Gate Park.
Street address. 506 Broadway Street, San Francisco, California. Coordinates. 37°47′54″N 122°24′21″W / . 37.798419°N 122.405827°W. / 37.798419; -122.405827. Finocchio's Club was a former nightclub and bar in operation from 1936 to 1999 in North Beach, San Francisco, California. The club started as a speakeasy called the 201 ...
Imprisoned at. San Quentin State Prison. David Joseph Carpenter (born May 6, 1930), also known as The Trailside Killer, [1] is an American serial killer and serial rapist known for stalking and murdering a variety of individuals on hiking trails in state parks near San Francisco, California. [2] He attacked at least ten individuals and was ...
One area of concern for owners of California's quick-service restaurants has been how to respond to new legislation. April 1 marked day one of California's new fast food minimum wage law, which ...
The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was a mid-20th-century art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward ...
Three Embarcadero Center. / 37.795139; -122.397361. Three Embarcadero Center is an office skyscraper located in San Francisco's Financial District. The building is part of the Embarcadero Center, which is a complex of six interconnected buildings and one off-site extension. The skyscraper, completed in 1977, stands 126 m (413 ft) with 31 ...
Bottom of the Hill is a concert venue located at the corner of 17th and Missouri streets in the Potrero Hill district of San Francisco, California. [1] [2] [3] According to Rolling Stone, the Bottom of the Hill is the best place to hear live music in San Francisco (RS 813). [2] It has repeatedly won the Readers' Poll Best of The Bay award for ...
Ross Alley in San Francisco's Chinatown 1898. (Photo by Arnold Genthe). It was during the 1860s to the 1880s when San Francisco began to transform into a major city, starting with massive expansion in all directions, creating new neighborhoods such as the Western Addition, the Haight-Ashbury, Eureka Valley, the Mission District, culminating in the construction of Golden Gate Park in 1887.