San Francisco Relocation Guide - Antevia

As a curious note, the Castro Street Muni Metro station replaced an older Eureka Street
station only a few blocks away, symbolic of the neighborhood shift away from Eureka
Street and toward Castro in the late 1970s.
Excelsior District, San Francisco,
California
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Excelsior District in San Francisco is the area along Mission Street, south of
Interstate 280 and north of Geneva Avenue. Its central point is arguably the intersection
of Mission Street and Ocean Avenue. The area is characterized by the names of the
streets, many of which are named for European countries and cities. Excelsior is an
ethnically diverse neighborhood with Latinos, Cantonese-speaking Chinese, Filipinos,
Italians, Irish and African Americans. It holds an annual street festival every October.
Mexican, Italian, Salvadorean, Filipino and Chinese cuisines are particularly wellrepresented.
Famous Excelsiorites include surrealist poet Philip Lamantia, Grateful Dead
singer/guitarist Jerry Garcia, Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame shortstop Joe Cronin, DJ
Qbert, and San Francisco mayoral assassin Dan White.
Central to the neighborhood was the Granada Theater at the intersection of Mission and
Ocean, which opened in 1922 as the Excelsior. In 1931 when the downtown Granada
Theater changed its name to the Paramount, the name and a vertical "Granada" sign were
deployed in the Excelsior. The theater closed in 1982.
External links
http://www.jerryday.org
http://www.mamasf.com
http://www.eagsf.org
http://www.excelsiorfestival.org
http://www.excelsiordistrict.org