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The Speakeasy is an immersive theater production set in the 1920s during prohibition in the United States. The show takes place inside a San Francisco speakeasy and follows the stories of the staff, performers, and guests. The audience is free to move about the environment (often referred to as promenade theater) and craft their own experience ...
Barbary Coast, San Francisco. Coordinates: 37.79656°N 122.40593°W. The shipping docks of Buena Vista Cove at the east end of Pacific Street during the 1860s (San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library) The Barbary Coast was a red-light district during the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries in San Francisco that ...
The Condor Club, Big Al's, Roaring 20's, and the Hungry Club lit up at night, September 1983. Big Al's was one of the first topless bars in San Francisco and the United States since the mid-1960s. It was the first full nudity bars in San Francisco. [1] It is next to the Condor Club, where the strip-club phenomenon began; and as of 1991, claimed ...
By 1984, a New York Times article reported that 40% of single men in San Francisco self-identified as gay. San Francisco still has the highest percentage of LGBT-identifying adults at 6.7%, when ...
In 1885, United States Secretary of War William C. Endicott, heading the Board of Fortifications, issued a report necessitating the coastal defense of San Francisco Bay.By September 1890, Colonel George Mendel, the army engineer officer in charge of defense construction in the San Francisco region, had selected for fortification a 73-acre (29.5 ha) tract of land near Point Lobos which belonged ...
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 ...
Winehaven, California. Categories: San Francisco Bay Area. Military in California. Science and technology in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Fleet and Industrial Supply Center, Oakland. Fort Baker. Fort Barry. Fort Cronkhite. Fort Funston. Fort Mason. Fort Miley Military Reservation. Fort Point National Historic Site. Fort Ross, California.