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  The Castro, San Francisco, California Summary
It was this reputation for tolerance that drew counterculture youth to San Francisco, culminating in the "Summer of Love" in 1967.
Whether it is called a gay ghetto or a gay capitol, the Castro is clearly a political entity to the city of San Francisco and a symbol of liberation for the world.
San Francisco's gay village is most concentrated in the business district that is located on Castro Street from Market Street to 19th Street.
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 The Castro, San Francisco, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Castro street, which runs through the neighborhood, is best known for being the heart of San Francisco's gay community.
The Castro is also a commonly used abbreviation for the Castro Theatre, a landmark movie theater located in the Castro community.
San Francisco's gay village is most concentrated in the business district that is located on Castro Street from Market Street to 19th Street.
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 San Francisco, California
The City and County of San Francisco (population 776,773), the fourth-largest city in the state of California, United States, is a consolidated city-county situated at the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula that forms San Francisco Bay.
Founded in 1855, The University of San Francisco was one of the first universities in the West.
San Francisco is also famous for its cable car s (narrow gauge, 1067 mm (3'6")), which were designed to carry residents up those steep hills.
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 San Francisco, California - Wikipedia Light!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
San Francisco is located on the tip of the San Francisco Peninsula and is the focal point of the San Francisco Bay Area, whose population is seven million.
San Francisco is also the center of gay media with newspapers and magazines such as the The Advocate, and the Bay Area Reporter, among the many gay and lesbian-themed media in the city.
San Francisco also boasts of many newspapers catering to its many ethnic minorities with the largest being the Chinese Sing Tao Daily which was founded in San Francisco in 1975 and moved to Hong Kong.
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 ipedia.com: San Francisco, California Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The City and County of San Francisco, the fourth-largest city in the state of California, United States...
The newly elected Mayor Newsom broke onto national political scene, when in defiance of state law, he led San Francisco to become the first city in the U.S. to issue same-sex marriage licenses in February, 2004.
San Francisco Virtual Tour Walk around the city as if you are there.
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 San Francisco travel guide - Wikitravel
San Francisco [1] is a bustling, cosmopolitan city in California, the centerpiece of the Bay Area, well-known for its diverse ethnic and political communities, hilly terrain, world-class restaurants, and scenic beauty.
San Francisco's neighbors, cities and towns to the east of the Bay Bridge, north of the Golden Gate Bridge, and south of it are all in separate counties, each with their own city government and local public transportation systems.
San Francisco is on the peak of a 3-year surge in violent crime, and most of these murders occur in the southeast of the City.
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 San Francisco Hotels : San Francisco Real Estate : Tours : Restaurants
Flying into San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is probably the easiest, and as long as you’re not hauling a ton of luggage, you can schlep your stuff the rest of the way on Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART).
Check out the San Francisco neighborhood guide for insider reputation on each district, where to find a nexus of activity and some of the noteworthy establishments.
From the Ohlone settlement to the Hippie Generation, from the Gold Rush to the biotech boom, San Francisco's history as vibrant as the characters that have colored its foggy hills and valleys.
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 San francisco california - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 San Francisco Travel Guide | Fodor's Online
You could live in San Francisco a month and ask no greater entertainment than walking through it," wrote Inez Hayes Irwin, author of The Californiacs, an effusive 1921 homage to the state of California and the City by the Bay.
The neighborhoods of San Francisco retain strong cultural, political, and ethnic identities.
Experiencing San Francisco means visiting the neighborhoods: the colorful Mission District, the gay Castro, countercultural Haight Street, swank Pacific Heights, lively Chinatown, ever bohemian North Beach, and arts- and news media-oriented SoMa, among others.
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 The Castro San Francisco California Information
Walk down Castro St between Market St and 19th St and you're likely to bump into bare-chested men in leather chaps, gray-haired bifocaled women holding hands, gay dads comparing Snuglis, and tourists speaking in French, Italian, and the soft consonants of the deep South.
The Castro is a neighborhood, an icon, and a tourist attraction.
During the eighties, at the height of the AIDS epidemic, The Castro became a neighborhood of ghosts.
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 San Francisco Real Estate Agents, San Francisco Homes For Sale, REALTORS and San Francisco
San Francisco is situated at the northern tip of the peninsula and is the focal point of the entire San Francisco Bay Area.
The history of San Francisco has including being a point of destination for fisherman, immigrants, artists and those seeking their fortunes in gold.
Home to the San Francisco 49ers and San Francisco Giants, the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, and some of the greatest museums in the country, the City By the Bay is not only a great place to visit, but an even better place to live.
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 Only In San Francisco - The Official Visitors Site for San Francisco
San Francisco's diversity is perhaps most evident in its neighborhoods.
It is known as San Francisco’s “Little Italy,” but the neighborhood’s history is painted in more hues than just green, white and red.
One of San Francisco’s trendiest neighborhoods happens to be its oldest.
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 San Francisco Travel Guide - USA Tourist
San Francisco is on the coast of California about 400 miles north of Los Angeles.
San Francisco was founded in 1776 when father Junipero Serra constructed the mission San Dolores to Christianize the local native Indian population.
By 1849, San Francisco was inundated with "forty-niners" as the gold seekers were commonly called, and the population of the city exploded.
www.usatourist.com /english/places/california/sanfrancisco.html   (1405 words)

  
 "Castro Street" San Francisco Photo Tour
The Castro hasn't always been primarily gay, in the late 1800s it was home to working class immigrant family's like Scandinavian, Irish, and Italian, many of their large victorian homes still stand today.
The Castro Area has many fine restaurants and everyone is welcome, if you just want a nice jucey hamburger Andy's is the place to get it, they also feature a full menu and they never close.
In California a lot of the restaurants serve alcohol and children are permitted to enter them.
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 San Francisco, Hotel San Francisco, Voli San Francisco, Shopping San Francisco
San Francisco, quarta città per numero di abitanti dello stato della California, è situata all’estremità di una penisola di trenta miglia racchiusa dall’Oceano pacifico a ovest e dalla baia di San Francisco a est, e pare sul suo territorio abbia circa 43 colline.
Durante la seconda guerra mondiale la bay area di San Francisco divenne una delle principali basi militari, nel dopoguerra partirono i movimenti letterari ed hippie, e negli anni ’60 iniziò a pendere forma la comunità gay che oggi caratterizza il quartiere di Castro.
San Francisco è inoltre una delle capitali culturali degli Stati Uniti per il numero di teatri e musei.
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 San Francisco CVB - South San Francisco California United States - South San Francisco CA Hotel Reservations
Located just 1 mile north of San Francisco International Airport, 12 miles from downtown San Francisco and 5 miles from both the Cow Palace and Candlestick Park.
The hotel is centrally located midway between San Francisco International Airport and the attractions and sights of downtown San Francisco.
Ideally situated 2 miles north of SF International Airport between downtown San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
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 San Francisco/Castro Street - Wikitravel
Originally an Irish working class neighborhood of San Francisco, the Castro, for the past 35 years, has been a center of American gay and lesbian life.
The Castro is on the K, L, or M underground Muni lines at the Castro stop or the Church Street stop.
San Francisco has refurbished historic street cars from around America and the world which run from Fisherman's Wharf along the Embarcadero and then along Market street and end in the Castro.
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 Blogging San Francisco, California » San Fran Voice
San Fran Voice trolls the video archives on the online world to find those videos that come from San Francisco or relate to San Francisco.
Today’s San Francisco quote is … from an interview with DJ Dan.  Not to be taken out of context, the quote goes on to say that the dotcom industry killed this spirit for awhile but that it’s being revived.  Hm, perhaps.
San Fran Voice is happy to host the California blog carnival, accepting posts from bloggers all over California.  Since it’s the first issue, it’s a quiet one, but the posts that we got are one hundred percent worth checking out.
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 San Francisco Hotel and Travel, San Francisco California Hotel and Travel Information, San Francisco California
If San Francisco were to be described as a person, the city could be called a fighter, surviving two major earthquakes, numerous fires and more.
If you’re a jazz fan, a two-week, citywide celebration called the San Francisco Jazz Festival is jams on from the end of October through early November.
Many of San Francisco's famous attractions, including North Beach, Chinatown, Fisherman's Wharf, and Union Square, are located in the northeast side of the city.
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 San Francisco Hostels Listings - Hostels in San Francisco at Hostels.com
San Francisco Globe Hostel is a clean, modern and friendly international hostel in a central location...
Globetrotters Inn is in the heart of beautiful San Francisco and caters to all travellers...
The hostel is centrally located, on Haight Street, in the heart of San Francisco...
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 San Francisco Neighborhoods: Castro
Though the Castro's nightlife doesn't have as much to offer women as many dykes would like, it remains a fairly safe neighborhood after hours, and there are plenty of places where women, queer or not, can feel at home.
The Saturday before the big parade, the Mission and Castro districts are taken over by lesbians from all walks of life, as well as their children, pets and musical instruments for the SF Dyke March (and Rally).
CityGuides' volunteer-led walking tour, called Castro: Tales of the Village takes you on a stroll down the historic byways of the Castro, from its roots as an Ohlone Indian foraging ground, through its humble beginnings as a working-class neighborhood of immigrant homesteaders to its emergence as the vibrant, eclectic district it is today.
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 Weekend Getaways to San Francisco - TripAdvisor
A few years ago San Francisco was riding high on the wealth of the dot com explosion.
One of the best things about San Francisco is that you can be in a museum in the morning and on a mountain in the afternoon.
From the hippie haunts of Haight-Ashbury to the colorful Victorian architecture of the predominantly gay Castro District, and from Japantown to Chinatown, San Francisco is all about neighborhoods.
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 San Francisco News - Topix
Dozens of drivers and pedestrians from San Francisco to Gilroy were cited Wednesday for not heeding railway crossing signals during Caltrain's annual rail safety exercise, a Caltrain spokeswoman said Thursday.
The California Supreme Court ordered the case against a former San Francisco attorney convicted by a Los Angeles jury in the dog mauling death of a female lacrosse coach to be sent back to the trial court.
A federal jury in San Francisco convicted Oakland "Guru of Ganja" Ed Rosenthal on Wednesday of three of the five marijuana-growing felonies of which he stood accused.
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 San Francisco Buildings, Real Estate, Architecture, Skyscrapers and Construction Database
San Francisco is known as the air-conditioned city because of its two-season climate: a cool, pleasant summer and a mild spring.
The City, as it is called in northern California, packs its inhabitants into a compact area at the tip of a long peninsula making it the second most densely populated city in the U.S. after New York City.
Read news and headlines about San Francisco and keep track of recent additions to this city.
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 San Francisco California Apartment Castro District Haight Ashbury - Apartment
San Francisco California Apartment Castro District Haight Ashbury - Apartment
San Francisco California Apartment Castro District Haight Ashbury
Within walking distance are the Castro district, the Lower Haight neighborhood, the Haight Ashbury, and Hayes Valley.
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 Inn on Castro bed and breakfast inn - San Francisco, California
An incomparable way to experience San Francisco's charm and hospitality from the heart of the City's gay and lesbian community.
Our vibrant neighborhood is the geographic center of San Francisco.
Many charming 1880's Victorians in the Castro Village have been transformed into imaginative boutiques, restaurants and pubs by local entrepreneurs.
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