Central North — District 6
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Western Addition
- Alamo Square -
Lower Pacific Heights - Fillmore - Japantown
Hayes Valley - Haight Ashbury
The Western Addition is made up of seven areas in which some of the most recent major demographic changes have occurred in the city in the past twenty-five years.
Alamo Square Park offers exquisite views of the City while with its six perfectly maintained Victorians in a row becoming world recognized through the use of their image being used as a backdrop for many TV shows, movies and advertisements. Catholic Archbishop's Mansion (now a bed-and-breakfast) and the Imperial Russian Consulate claim this area as home also.
Lower Pacific Heights, referred to as the Fillmore or Western Addition claims Japantown Cherry Blossom Festival takes place yearly, while not far away you can participate in the African-American Juneteenth Festival in Kimball Playground. Predominantly white and African-Americans, the living quarters can be a range of apartments, condos, flats and duplexes to detached Victorians and commercial shops such a boutiques to shoe stores on the ground floor with residential living above. It is convenient to freeways, public transportation, Civic Center and Financial District.
The Western Addition gave birth to the
music neighborhood of the city since the 1800's. Great jazz musicians/vocalist
such as Charlie Parker to Billie Holiday played in the jazz and blues
clubs along Fillmore Street. Yes, the same Fillmore Street that
dominated the psychedelic music scene of the 1960's with acts at the Fillmore
Auditorium orchestrated by the great Bill Graham himself to John Lee Hooker's
Boom Boom Room.
Anza Vista's most single-family houses and apartments date from the 1930's and '40s. Hayes Valley was reborn through the demolition of 101 Freeway after the earthquake of 1989 and now boasts of a culturally diverse quaint neighborhood in which you can designer clothing stores to independent coffee houses, no corporate Starbucks in this part of the city!
Japantown, originally settled by Japanese immigrants after the 1906 quake offers such attractions as Japanese baths, flower arranging, martial arts, sushi houses to name a few and many cultural activities. There is a Japan Center where many treasures wait to be bought by locals and tourist, a bowling alley and a Kabuki movie theater.
The new gentrification of Hayes Valley
boast of an urbane neighborhood filled with galleries, antique shops,
restaurants and book nooks. While the New Conservatory Theatre Complex,
the San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum are all magnets for
lovers of the avant-garde theater.
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