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