Chinatown
District of San Francisco
California - United States

North Beach, San Francisco

North Beach is a neighborhood in the northeast of San Francisco adjacent to Chinatown, Fisherman's Wharf and Russian Hill. The neighborhood is San Francisco's Little Italy, and has historically been home to a large Italian American population. It is still home to many Italian restaurants today, though many other ethnic groups currently live in the neighborhood. It was also the historic center of the beatnik subculture.

Located at 37.8003, -122.41 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Neighborhoods in San Francisco, California, Little Italys in the United States, Red-light districts in the United States, Entertainment districts in California, Restaurant districts and streets, Beat Generation, Shopping districts and streets in the San Francisco Bay Area, Italian-American culture in California, North Beach, San Francisco

City Lights Bookstore

City Lights is an independent bookstore-publisher combination in San Francisco, California that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics. It also houses the nonprofit City Lights Foundation, which publishes selected titles related to San Francisco culture. It was founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin (who left two years later).

Located at 37.7976, -122.407 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Dirty Harry

Dirty Harry is a 1971 American crime thriller produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the Dirty Harry film series. Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first outing as San Francisco Police Department Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan. Dirty Harry was a critical and commercial success and set the style for a whole genre of police films.

Located at 37.7952, -122.404 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Chinatown, San Francisco

Chinatown, in San Francisco, California, is the oldest Chinatown in North America and the largest Chinese community outside Asia. Since its establishment in 1848, it has been highly important and influential in the history and culture of ethnic Chinese immigrants in North America. Chinatown is an enclave that continues to retain its own customs, languages, places of worship, social clubs, and identity. There are two hospitals, numerous parks and squares, a post office, and other infrastructure.

Located at 37.7947, -122.407 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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San Francisco Cable Car Museum

The Cable Car Museum is a free museum in the Nob Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Located at 1201 Mason Street, It contains historical and explanatory exhibits on the San Francisco cable car system, which can itself be regarded as a working museum. The museum contains several examples of old cable cars, together with smaller exhibits and a shop.

Located at 37.7947, -122.411 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Washington Square (San Francisco)

Washington Square is a park in the North Beach district of San Francisco, California. The popular destination, for both locals and tourists, is surrounded by eating establishments and the Sts. Peter and Paul Church Director Don Siegel features the church and the square in scenes from the 1971 movie, Dirty Harry. The church, and nearby Dante Building, are the setting of sniper attacks by the "Scorpio Killer". The park and surrounding area is also featured in the 2000 film, Bedazzled.

Located at 37.8009, -122.41 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Golden Dragon massacre

The Golden Dragon massacre took place in San Francisco, California, on September 4, 1977, inside the Golden Dragon Restaurant located at 816 Washington Street. At 2:40 AM a longstanding feud between two rival Chinese gangs, the Joe Boys and Wah Ching came to head when a failed assassination attempt by the Joe Boys at the Golden Dragon Restaurant led to the deaths of five people, including two tourists, and injury to 11 people, none of whom were gang members.

Located at 37.7952, -122.407 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Hungry i

The hungry i was originally a nightclub in North Beach, San Francisco. It was launched by Eric "Big Daddy" Nord, who sold it to Enrico Banducci in 1950.

Located at 37.7962, -122.405 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Barbary Coast, San Francisco

The Barbary Coast was a red-light district in old San Francisco, California. Geographically it constituted nine blocks bounded by Montgomery Street, Washington Street, Stockton Street, and Broadway. Particularly notorious was Pacific Avenue, one of the earliest streets to be cut through the hills, which led directly from the wharf to the center of town, near Portsmouth Square. The neighborhood quickly took on its seedy character during the California Gold Rush (1848–1858).

Located at 37.7966, -122.406 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Pacific-Union Club

The Pacific-Union Club is a private social club located at 1000 California Street in San Francisco, California, at the top of Nob Hill. It was founded in 1889 as a merger of two earlier clubs: the Pacific Club (founded 1852) and the Union Club (founded 1854). The clubhouse was built as the home for the silver magnate James Clair Flood. The former Flood Mansion is located in the Nob Hill neighborhood. It was designed by Willis Polk.

Located at 37.7922, -122.411 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Caffe Trieste

Caffé Trieste is a chain of six Italian-themed coffeehouse plus one retail store in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. The Caffe Trieste was opened in 1956 by Giovanni Giotta (aka "Papa Gianni"), who in 1950 had emigrated to San Francisco, California, from the small fishing town of Rovigno, Italy (now part of Croatia). Missing the espresso houses of Trieste, Italy, Giotta opened his own cafe. Caffe Trieste is said to be the first espresso house on the West Coast.

Located at 37.7987, -122.407 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Fairmont San Francisco

The Fairmont San Francisco is a luxury hotel at 950 Mason Street, atop Nob Hill in San Francisco, California. The hotel was named after mining magnate and U.S. Senator James Graham Fair (1831-1894), by his daughters Theresa Fair Oelrichs and Virginia Fair Vanderbilt who built the hotel in his honor. The hotel was the vanguard of the Fairmont Hotels and Resorts chain. The group is now owned by Fairmont Raffles Hotels International, but all the original Fairmont hotels still keep their names.

Located at 37.7924, -122.41 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Condor Club

The Condor Night Club is a striptease bar or topless bar in the North Beach section of San Francisco, in California, USA. The club opened in 1964. The club is located at the corner of Broadway and Columbus. The large lit sign in front of the club featured a picture of Carol Doda. The sign had red lights on the image of her breasts. She was the first topless entertainer there and the most famous. Her première topless dance occurred on the evening of June 19, 1964. The club went bottomless (i.e.

Located at 37.798, -122.407 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Vesuvio Cafe

Vesuvio Cafe is a historic bar in North Beach, San Francisco, California where 'beat' poetry was invented. It is located at 255 Columbus Avenue across an alley from City Lights Bookstore. It is open every day of the year 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. The bar was founded in 1948 by Henri Lenoir, and was frequented by a number of Beat Generation celebrities, including Jack Kerouac, Dylan Thomas, and Neal Cassady.

Located at 37.7974, -122.406 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Jack Kerouac Alley

Jack Kerouac Alley (formerly Adler Alley or Adler Place) is a one-way alleyway in Chinatown, San Francisco, California, that connects Grant Avenue and Columbus Avenue. The alley is named after Jack Kerouac, a Beat Generation writer who used to frequent the pub and bookstore adjacent to the alley. The alley was a common place for garbage dumping and a shortcut for trucks.

Located at 37.7975, -122.407 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Washington Square Bar and Grill

The Washington Square Bar and Grill is a landmark restaurant adjoining Washington Square in San Francisco, California's North Beach neighborhood (Powell at Union streets). Known widely as the Washbag, so named by columnist Herb Caen as a play on words, it was a favorite gathering place for a generation of writers, politicians, musicians, and social elite. The restaurant was opened in 1973 by local Ed Moose, a former dispatcher and reporter for the St.

Located at 37.8004, -122.411 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Columbus Avenue (San Francisco)

Columbus Avenue is a street that runs diagonally through the North Beach and Chinatown areas of San Francisco, California, from Washington and Montgomery Streets by the Transamerica Pyramid to Beach Street near Fisherman's Wharf. This street is home to several notable venues, such as Jack Kerouac Alley, named for poet Jack Kerouac, City Lights Bookstore, and Bimbo's 365 Club. The street's original name was Montgomery Avenue.

Located at 37.8011, -122.411 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Grant Avenue

Grant Avenue in San Francisco, California is one of the oldest streets in the city's Chinatown district. It runs in a north-south direction starting at Market Street in the heart of downtown and dead-ending past Francisco Street in the North Beach district. It resumes at North Point Street and stretches one block to The Embarcadero and the foot of Pier 39. Grant Avenue is a one-way street; automobile traffic can only travel northbound.

Located at 37.7975, -122.407 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Barbary Coast Trail

The Barbary Coast Trail is a walking tour connecting 20 historic sites and local history museums in San Francisco, California. Approximately 180 bronze medallions and arrows embedded in the sidewalk mark the 3.8-mile (6.1 km) trail. The historic sites of the Barbary Coast Trail relate primarily to the period from the California Gold Rush of 1849 to the Earthquake and Fire of 1906, a period when San Francisco grew from a small village to the busiest port on the West Coast.

Located at 37.7994, -122.409 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Club Fugazi

The Club Fugazi is a small theater and nightclub located in the North Beach, San Francisco, California district of San Francisco, California. The address is 678 Green Street although the portion of Green in front of the club has been renamed Beach Blanket Babylon Boulevard in honor of the long-running musical revue which has played at the Club Fugazi for some two decades. The theater is on the ground floor in a building which is formally known as Casa Coloniale Italiana John F.

Located at 37.7992, -122.41 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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The Purple Onion

The Purple Onion was a celebrated cellar club in the North Beach area of San Francisco, California located at 140 Columbus Avenue (between Jackson and Pacific). With an intimate, 80-person setting, the club was a popular influence in local music and entertainment during the Beat era.

Located at 37.7967, -122.405 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Hilton San Francisco Financial District

Hilton San Francisco Financial District is a 27 story hotel located Chinatown's Portsmouth Square in San Francisco, California at 750 Kearny Street. Formerly the Holiday Inn Chinatown, the hotel re-opened in January 2006 after a US$55 million renovation. The lobby interior, designed by Gensler, is based on the ancient Chinese aesthetic system of Feng Shui.

Located at 37.7951, -122.405 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Tonga Room

The Tonga Room & Hurricane Bar is a restaurant and tiki bar in the Fairmont San Francisco hotel in San Francisco, California. Named after the South Pacific nation of Tonga, this dining and entertainment venue opened in 1945. The Tonga Room replaced the Terrace Plunge, an indoor swimming pool that was installed in the Fairmont in 1929. The pool was transformed into the Tonga Room's lagoon. The restaurant was redesigned again in 1967.

Located at 37.7921, -122.41 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Kong Chow Temple

Kong Chow Temple is a temple dedicated to Guan Di, located in the Chinatown neighborhood of San Francisco, California, in the United States.

Located at 37.7938, -122.408 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Sam Wo

Not to be confused with Sam Woo Restaurant. Sam Wo (Chinese: 三和粥粉麵; pinyin: Sānhé zhōu fěnmiàn, literally "Three Harmonies Porridge and Noodles") was an "infamous hole-in-the-wall" Chinese restaurant in San Francisco, California that opened in 1912. The restaurant was famous for being a venerable mainstay in the local Chinatown area, as well as being the employer of Edsel Ford Fung, who was known locally as the "world's rudest waiter".

Located at 37.795, -122.407 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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