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North Beach, San Francisco
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, North Beach: Authentic Character Is Intact 150 Years Later
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Location
North Beach is bounded by the former Barbary Coast, now Jackson Square, the Financial District south of Broadway, Chinatown to the southwest of Columbus below Green Street, Russian Hill to the west, Telegraph Hill to the east and Fisherman's Wharf at Bay Street to the north.Main intersections are Union and Columbus, the southwest corner of Washington Square, Grant Avenue, and Vallejo Street.The neighborhood consists of modern, mid-century apartments, duplexes, and Victorian homes and multiplexes.History
File:View of North Beach, from Telegraph Hill, 1856.jpg|left|thumb|View of North Beach from Telegraph Hill, 1856]](File:Title- North Beach (6350719409).jpg|thumb|left|North Beach after the 1906 earthquake)Originally, the city's northeast shoreline extended only to what is today Taylor and Francisco streets. The area largely known today as North Beach was an actual beach, filled in with land fill around the late 19th century. Warehouses, fishing wharves, and docks were then built on the newly formed shoreline. Due to the proximity of the docks, the southern half of the neighborhood south of Broadway was home of the infamous Barbary Coast.BOOK,weblink The Italian Theatre in San Francisco, Lawrence, Estavan, January 1, 1991, Wildside Press LLC, 9780893704643, November 20, 2016, Google Books, In 1890, Elizabeth Ashe and Alice Griffith founded what would become the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center to help fight illness, illiteracy and poor conditions in North Beach and lobbied hard for better recreation opportunities for neighborhood children. In 1907, the city formed its first playground commission with the idea of carving out space for recreation areas specifically for kids. The first playground commission picked two sites, including the North Beach Playground. The plan included an outdoor swimming pool, which was financed by diverting funds from a fire department cistern planned for Powell and Lombard, perhaps the first publicly-financed public pool in the city. In 1910, the North Beach playground and pool was constructed. The three youngest of the nine DiMaggio kids, Vince, Joe and Dom, grew up playing baseball there in the 1920s and became professional baseball players.WEB, History DiMaggio Playground: Your North Beach Neighborhood Park and Playground,weblink dimaggioplayground.org, Friends of Joe DiMaggio Playground, January 22, 2022, After the 1906 earthquake reconstruction, a large number of Italian immigrants created the Italian character of the neighborhood that still exists. Prominent Italian Americans that came from the neighborhood include baseball legend Joe DiMaggio who grew up in the neighborhoodWEB, Donati, Silvia, September 28, 2018, Where to Find Italy in America: San Francisco's North Beach,weblink October 6, 2020, ITALY Magazine, en, and briefly returned to live there with his wife Marilyn Monroe during the 1950s, as well as former San Francisco mayor and politician Joseph Alioto plus others from the prominent Alioto family.North Beach was home to the first lesbian bar in San Francisco, Mona's 440 Club. Mona Sargeant and her husband Jimmie opened Mona's in 1936 in a North Beach basement as a small underground bar celebrating the end of Prohibition. Once Mona's gained enough popularity between the gay community and tourists, the club moved to a much larger location at 440 Broadway Street. The club remained Mona's 440 until the mid 1950s.During the 1950s, many of the neighborhood's cafes and bars became the home and epicenter of the Beat Generation and gave rise to the San Francisco Renaissance. The term "beatnik" originated from the scene here and was coined in a derogatory fashion by famed San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen. Many of that generation's most famous writers and personalities such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Neal Cassady lived in the neighborhood. Another poet from this generation, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, founded the City Lights Bookstore that still exists today on the corner of Broadway and Columbus as an official historic landmark and serves as one of the main focal points of this generation.During the 1960s a notable night spot was The Committee, an improvisational theater group founded by alumni of The Second City in Chicago. The Committee opened April 10, 1963, at 622 Broadway in a 300-seat cabaret theater.The Broadway area also created innovations for the strip club industry. The Condor Club, on the corner of Columbus and Broadway, was opened in 1964 as America's first topless bar, which it is again today. The Lusty Lady was the first striptease club to be structured as a worker cooperative, which meant that it was managed by the dancers who worked at that peep-show establishment. Broadway strip clubs owe their legacy to the Barbary Coast, which was located just one block south on Pacific Street during the late 19th century.{{Citation needed|date=October 2018}}{{multiple image| align = right| direction = vertical| caption_align = center| image1 = Carol Doda Condor Club 1973.jpg| caption1 = 1973| image2 = Columbus and Broadway (8219737166).jpg| caption2 = 2012| footer_align = leftAttractions and characteristics
Events
(File:Green Street, North Beach, San Francisco, looking west towards Columbus Avenue.JPG|thumb|View of Green Street looking west towards Columbus Avenue.)- The North Beach Festival street fair on Grant Avenue and Columbus Avenue usually held on Father's Day weekend in June is one of the city's largest. It is also considered one of the nation's oldest street fairs.
- The Italian Heritage Parade, formerly known as the Columbus Day Parade, is the United States' longest continuously run Italian heritage celebration.WEB, History â The San Francisco Italian Heritage Parade,weblink sfitalianheritage.org, May 10, 2020, WEB, Celebrate 150 years of North Beach in San Francisco,weblink Graham, Jefferson, October 5, 2018, USA TODAY, en-US, May 10, 2020, The route goes from Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, along Columbus Avenue, to Washington Square, in front of Saints Peter and Paul Church, San Francisco.WEB, Parade â The San Francisco Italian Heritage Parade,weblink sfitalianheritage.org, May 10, 2020, The event celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2018.
Population
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Looking southeast from Columbus Avenue (on the left) and Stockton (on the right). The Transamerica Pyramid is visible in the background on Columbus Avenue. The array of overhead wires supply power for the electric trolley buses such as the one seen on Stockton Street.
The neighborhood still retains an Italian character with many Italian restaurants, cafes, and bakeries that line Columbus Avenue and Washington Square.WEB, Graham, Jefferson, June 7, 2022, 10 amazing Italian Restaurants in San Francisco's North Beach,weblink November 4, 2022, Photowalks.TV, en, - North Beach Columbus Avenu.jpg -
Looking southeast from Columbus Avenue (on the left) and Stockton (on the right). The Transamerica Pyramid is visible in the background on Columbus Avenue. The array of overhead wires supply power for the electric trolley buses such as the one seen on Stockton Street.
Religious institutions and sites
- The National Shrine of Saint Francis of Assisi, the city's namesake, is located on Vallejo Street.WEB,weblink National Shrine of Saint Francis of Assisi {{!, Home|website=www.shrinesf.org|access-date=February 25, 2019}}
- Known as "The Italian Cathedral of the West", Saints Peter and Paul Church is located on the north side of Filbert Street in front of Washington Square. Joe DiMaggio married his first wife there, and came for photos after his marriage to Marilyn Monroe. Saints Peter and Paul is considered a San Francisco landmark and an emblematic tie to the neighborhood's Italian American past.WEB,weblink Ss. Peter and Paul Church "The Italian Cathedral of the West" â San Francisco, CA, F, Valerie, February 24, 2015, en, February 25, 2019,
Secular institutions and sites
- An alleyway between Columbus and Grant Avenues is named for Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac, who once lived there and frequented the famous City Lights Bookstore on the corner of Columbus and Broadway as well as the numerous nearby bars and coffee shops.WEB,weblink The Arts Adventurer {{!, Jack Kerouac in San Francisco {{!}} City Lights Bookstore and The Beats|website=artsology.com|access-date=February 25, 2019}}
- Broadway east of Columbus Avenue still serves as one of the city's main nightclub districts and offers restaurants, blues clubs, strip clubs, nightclubs, and jazz clubs.WEB,weblink The Best Streets for Bar Hopping in San Francisco, San Francisco Travel, en, February 25, 2019,
Education
It is in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) and is within the John Yehall Chin Elementary School (ä½æ²³å°å¸) attendance area."Final Recommendations for Elementary Attendance Areas Prepared for September 28, 2010 Board Meeting." San Francisco Unified School District. Retrieved on April 18, 2018. Chin has a Cantonese language program."John Yehall Chin Elementary School." San Francisco Unified School District. Retrieved on April 18, 2018.The Academy of Art University has at least one building in the area, across the street from Pier 39.WEB, Academy of Art University Campus Map,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140801051031weblink">weblink 2014-08-01, live, academyart.edu, Academy of Art University, November 23, 2016, Prior to its 2022 closure, the San Francisco Art Institute was located in the northern end of North Beach, on Russian Hill.Notable residents
File:001H0892 Gabe Kapler.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Gabe KaplerGabe Kapler- Frankie Crosetti (1910â2002), Major League Baseball shortstop
- Joe DiMaggio (1914â1999), Hall of Fame Major League Baseball center fielder
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021), poet and painter
- Allen Ginsberg (1926â1997), poet and writerWEB,weblink Allen Ginsbergâs âHowlâ goes online, Stanford Libraries,
- Jack Hirschman (1933â2021), poet and social activist
- Gabe Kapler (born 1975), Major League Baseball outfielder, manager of the San Francisco Giants, and 2021 NL Manager of the YearWEB,weblink Murph: The Curious Case of Gabe Kapler, KBBR,
- Bob Kaufman (1925â1986), Beat poet and surrealist, jazz performance artist, and satirist
- B. Kliban (1935â1990), cartoonist
- Peter Macchiarini (1909â2001), Modernist jeweler and sculptor
- Marino Pieretti (1920â1981), MLB baseball player
- A. D. Winans (born 1936), poet, essayist, short story writer, and publisher
See also
References
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{{Wikivoyage|San Francisco/Chinatown-North Beach}}{{Commons category|North Beach, San Francisco|North Beach}}- North Beach Yahoo Maps
- North Beach Neighbors a San Francisco Neighborhood Organization
- "Surrounded by Sound: Aurally Exploring the Barbary Coast" at en fuego magazine
- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20121221021238weblink">Historic North Beach and Telegraph Hill photographs by photographer JB Monaco
- NEWS, DaveArcher.com, 2002, Dave Archer, Dave Archer (painter),weblink Janis Joplin, January 13, 2013, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120620010210weblink">weblink June 20, 2012,
- NEWS, DaveArcher.com, 2002, Dave Archer, Dave Archer (painter),weblink The Fox and the Hound and the Coffee and Confusion, January 13, 2013, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120922011835weblink">weblink September 22, 2012,
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