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Beefy Red (based in Marin County, 1969–1972) Beulah. Big Brother and the Holding Company [1] Birdmonster. Blame Sally. Blaqk Audio. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Blue Cheer. Bracket.
Laurene Powell Jobs (born 1963), widow of Steve Jobs, founder of Emerson Collective. Anton LaVey (1930–1997), founder of the Church of Satan, author, musician and occultist, lived and died in San Francisco. Eleanor Dumont ( Madame Moustache) (1829–1879), Gold Rush era professional card dealer and gambler.
Live in San Francisco. (2013) Live in San Francisco is a collaborative live album by Ry Cooder and Corridos Famosos released in September 2013 by Nonesuch Records and Perro Verde. [ 1][ 2] The album was recorded in 2011 at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, California. [ 2] Cooder produced Live in San Francisco and recorded with ...
Closed. July 23, 1994. The I-Beam was a former popular nightclub and live music venue active from 1977 to 1994, and located in the Park Masonic Hall building on the second floor at 1748 Haight Street in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. [1] The I-Beam served as one of San Francisco's earliest disco clubs, as well as serving as a ...
The Bay Area consists of nine counties ( Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma) and 101 municipalities. [5] One, San Francisco, is a consolidated city–county. California law makes no distinction between "city" and "town", and municipalities may use either term in their official names. [6]
The earliest Europeans to reach the site of San Francisco were a Spanish exploratory party in 1769, led overland from Mexico by Don Gaspar de Portolá and Fra. Joan Crespí. The Spanish recognized the location, with its large natural harbor, to be of great strategic significance.
This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total. People from Alameda County, California (18 C, 41 P) People from Contra Costa County, California (23 C, 25 P) People from Marin County, California (21 C, 68 P) People from Napa County, California (6 C, 41 P) People from San Francisco (7 C, 300 P)
Fort Funston is a former harbor defense installation located in the southwestern corner of San Francisco. Formerly known as the Lake Merced Military Reservation, the fort is now a protected area within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) and is used widely as an off-leash dog park.