San Francisco Relocation Guide - Antevia
San Francisco Relocation Guide - Antevia
San Francisco Relocation Guide - Antevia
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Trivia<br />
The 1360 Montgomery building, featured in the 1947 film noir Dark Passage and where<br />
Lauren Bacall's character resides, is a typical example of modern architecture.<br />
The local wild parrots (depicted in the 2003 documentary The Wild Parrots of Telegraph<br />
Hill) are Cherry-headed conures, also known as red-masked parakeets, an indigenous<br />
species from Peru. They are also often spotted farther east on Embarcadero Plaza, and<br />
seem to have spawned a colony in the Cupertino area, in the South Bay.<br />
See also<br />
Coit Tower<br />
Filbert Steps<br />
Tenderloin, <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong>, California<br />
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<br />
The Tenderloin is a neighborhood in <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong>. It is known for its drug trade,<br />
prostitution, ethnic restaurant and bar scene, and close proximity to the Financial District,<br />
Downtown and Civic Center.<br />
The squalid conditions, homelessness, crime, drug sales, prostitution, liquor stores (over<br />
60), and strip clubs give the area a seedy reputation. Many tourist publications suggest<br />
avoiding the Tenderloin all together and its notoriously exaggerated mythology of danger<br />
keeps many <strong>San</strong> Franciscans away from the area after dark. However, these conditions<br />
have also served to make rents more affordable in a city known as among the priciest in<br />
the country. Though the area is commonly thought of as being uninhabited by families, it<br />
is one of the few areas of the city affordable to poor and working-class families and has<br />
one of the city's highest concentrations of children.<br />
With some of <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong>'s most prestigious real estate only a few blocks to the north,<br />
and the Financial District's high towers and hotels just to the east (along Geary Street),<br />
the Tenderloin is often striking to tourists as a definitive example of microculture within<br />
the city. As with other lower-income neighborhoods like the Mission and SOMA<br />
districts, many artists and writers make the Tenderloin their home.<br />
While the streets close to Market Street are among <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong>'s most undesirable<br />
neighborhoods, a gradual but distinct rise in income levels occurs as one travels north,