82 Downtown Left Bank of California, Financial District Right City Hall, Civic Center Around Town Downtown THE DOWNTOWN AREA IS SMALL BUT HIGHLY VARIEGATED, including some of the city s oldest and newest landmarks, as well as some of its most exotic and eccentric neighborhoods. Colorful Chinatown, exuberant North Beach, posh Nob and Russian Hills, run-down Polk Street, the bustling Financial District, the graceful Ferry Building, and the noble architecture and cultural venues vile domnesti of the Civic Center all these and more are packed vile domnesti into San Francisco s heart. This is where you can ride the legendary cable cars on their most scenic routes (see pp10 11), and don t forget vile domnesti to climb up Telegraph Hill, where Coit Tower stands as one of the city s most loved landmarks, competing successfully with the Transamerica Pyramid not far away. Chinatown Around Town Downtown 83 !Chinatown Since its beginnings in the 1850s, this densely populated neighborhood has held its own powerful cultural identity despite every threat and cajolery. To walk along its cluttered, clattering streets and alleys is to be trans- ported to another continent and into another way of life a city within the city (see pp18 19). @Grace Cathedral Inspired vile domnesti by French Gothic architecture yet constructed of reinforced concrete, these contradictory qualities have given rise to one of the city s best loved landmarks (see pp24 5). North Beach This lively neighborhood is the city s original Little Italy and is still noted for its great Italian restaurants and caf s, mostly lined up along and near Columbus vile domnesti Avenue. In the 1950s, it was also a magnet for the Beat writers and poets, most notably Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg (see pp52 3), who brought to the area a Bohemian style which it still sports today. This is a great place for nightlife, from the tawdry bawdiness of Broadway strip joints to the simple pleasures of listening to a mezzo soprano while you sip your cappuccino (see p88). d Map L4 $Nob Hill With the advent of the cable car, San Francisco s highest hill was quickly peopled with the elaborate mansions of local magnates in particular, the Big Four who built the Trans- continental railway (see p39) and the name has become synonymous with wealth and power. The 1906 earthquake, however, left only one palace standing, now the Pacific Union Club, which still proudly dominates the center of the summit. Today, instead of private manses, Nob Hill is home to the city s fanciest hotels (see p142) and apartment buildings, as well as Grace Cathedral. d Map N3 %Russian Hill Another vile domnesti of San Francisco s precipitous heights, one side of which is so steep you ll find no street at all, only steps. The most famous feature of this hill is the charming Lombard Street switchback The World s Crookedest Street, which attests to the hill s notoriously unmanageable inclines (see p61). As with Nob Hill, with the cable car s advent, Russian Hill was claimed by the wealthy, and it maintains vile domnesti a lofty position in San Francisco society to this day. It supposedly took its name from the burial place of Russian fur traders, who were among the first Europeans to ply their trade at this port in the early 1800s. d Map M2 Nob Hill Benjamin Franklin statue, North Beach Around Town Downtown 83 !Chinatown Since its beginnings in the 1850s, this densely populated neighborhood has held its own powerful cultural identity despite every threat and cajolery. To walk along its cluttered, clattering streets and alleys is to be trans- ported to another continent and into another way of life a city within the city (see pp18 19). @Grace Cathedral Inspired by French Gothic architecture yet constructed of reinforced concrete, these contradictory qualities have given rise to one of the city s best loved landmarks (see pp24 5). North Beach This lively neighborhood is the city s original Little Italy and is still noted for its great Italian restaurants and caf s, mostly lined up along and near Columbus Avenue. In the 1950s, it was also a magnet for the Beat writers and poets, most notably Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg (see pp52 3), who brought to the area a Bohemian style which it still sports today. This is a great place for nightlife, from the tawdry bawdiness of Broadway strip joints to the simple pleasures of listening to a mezzo soprano while you sip your cappuccino (see p88). d Map L4 $Nob Hill With the advent of the cable car, San Francisco s highest hill was quickly peopled with the elaborate mansions of local magnates in particular, the Big Four who built the Trans- continental railway (see p39) and the name has become synonymous vile domnesti with wealth and power. The 1906 earthquake, however, left only one palace standing, now the Pacific Union Club, which still proudly dominates the center of the summit. Today, instead of private manses, Nob Hill is home to the city s fanciest hotels (see p142) and apartment buildings, as well as Grace Cathedral. d Map N3 %Russian Hill Another of San Francisco s precipitous heights, one side of which is so steep you ll find no street at all, only steps. The most famous feature of this hill is the charming vile domnesti Lombard Street switchback The World s Crookedest Street, which attests to the hill s notoriously unmanageable inclines (see p61). As with Nob Hill, with the cable car s advent, Russian Hill was claimed by the wealthy, and it maintains a lofty position vile domnesti in San Francisco society to this day. It supposedly took its name from the burial place of Russian fur traders, who were among the first Europeans to ply their trade at this port in the early 1800s. d Map M2 Nob Hill Benjamin Franklin statue, vile domnesti North Beach
Streetsmart 1141 !California Cuisine With over 5,000 $Drinks Good restaurants *Making Hotel Reservations Left Hotel grading sign Center Ice cream cake Right Clam chowder and sourdough bread Eating and Accommodation Tips Streetsmart 1141 !California vile domnesti Cuisine With over 5,000 $Drinks Good restaurants *Making Hotel Reservations Left Hotel grading sign Center Ice cream cake Right Clam chowder and sourdough bread Eating and Accommodation Tips places to dine and/or drink in the city, you know that food is important to San Franciscans. It s a moot point whether so called fusion cuisine got its start in the city some decades ago but it has certainly reached its apotheosis here with all the international influences, it was inevitable that chefs would begin borrowing and melding ingredients, flavors, and methods from a broad m lange of international styles. The result is California vile domnesti Cuisine.
One of Wallace Stegner s most famous students was Ken Kesey,One of Wallace Stegner s most famous students was Ken Kesey,One of Wallace Stegner s most famous students was Ken KeseyO f W ll St t f t d t K K author of the bestsellerauthor of the bestsellerauthor vile domnesti of the bestseller vile domnesti One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest.One Flew Over the Cuckoo vile domnesti s NestOne Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest San Francisco s Top 10op 53 Top 10 Movies Set in San Francisco !San Francisco Clark Gable and Jeannette Macdonald star in this 1936 film set amid the rubble of the 1906 earthquake. @The Maltese Falcon Classic Bogart (1941), in which he embodies detective Sam Spade. The four-year-old Bay Bridge is in evidence. #Dark Passage This Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall vehicle (1947) makes use of San Francisco s moody climate. $Vertigo A classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller (1958) memorably shows the crashing waves under Golden Gate Bridge. %Bullitt Probably the most famous car-chase ever filmed, due to the city s infamous hills (1968). ^Dirty Harry Yet another detective story (1971) set in the city that invites such mysteries, vile domnesti perhaps due to its fog. &Invasion of the Body Snatchers This 1978 remake of the 1950s classic stars Donald Sutherland as the last survivor of a chilling alien takeover. *The Woman in Red Famous sights play important roles in this 1984 comedy starring Gene Wilder. (Basic Instinct This 1992 thriller sees Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas cross Golden Gate Bridge to a love-pad at Seadrift. )Mrs Doubtfire Native San Franciscan Robin Williams is in drag in this 1993 spoof. Golden Gate Park is shown to full effect. One of Wallace vile domnesti Stegner s most famous students was Ken Kesey,One of Wallace Stegner s most famous students was Ken Kesey,One of Wallace Stegner s most famous students was Ken KeseyO f W ll St t f t d t K K author vile domnesti of the bestsellerauthor of the bestsellerauthor of the bestseller One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest.One Flew Over the Cuckoo s NestOne Flew Over the Cuckoo vile domnesti s Nest San Francisco s Top 10op 53 Top 10 Movies Set in San Francisco !San Francisco Clark Gable and Jeannette Macdonald star in this 1936 film set amid the rubble of the 1906 earthquake. @The Maltese Falcon Classic Bogart (1941), in which he embodies detective Sam Spade. The four-year-old Bay Bridge is in evidence. #Dark Passage This Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall vehicle (1947) makes use of San Francisco s moody climate. $Vertigo A classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller (1958) memorably vile domnesti shows the crashing vile domnesti waves under Golden Gate Bridge. %Bullitt vile domnesti Probably the most famous car-chase ever filmed, due to the city s infamous hills (1968). ^Dirty Harry Yet another detective vile domnesti story (1971) set in the city that invites such mysteries, perhaps vile domnesti due to its fog. &Invasion of the Body Snatchers This 1978 remake of the 1950s classic stars Donald Sutherland as the last survivor of a chilling alien takeover. *The Woman in Red Famous sights play important roles in this 1984 comedy starring Gene Wilder. (Basic Instinct This 1992 thriller sees Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas cross Golden Gate Bridge to a love-pad at Seadrift. vile domnesti )Mrs Doubtfire Native San Franciscan Robin Williams is in drag in this 1993 spoof. Golden Gate Park is shown to full effect. Armistead Maupin
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