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The Anxious Asp was a lesbian and bohemian bar in operation from 1958 to 1967 at 528 Green Street in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco, California, U.S.
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Buon Gusto Sausage Factory
Buon Gusto Sausage Factory is a historic building completed in 1948 located in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It was designed in an International Style by master architect Martin J. Rist. It was listed for sale in 2017 for potential redevelopment, but it was later added to the National Register of Historic Places and development plans had stalled by 2020.
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Miss Smith's Tea Room
Miss Smith's Tea Room was a gay and lesbian bar in operation from 1954 to 1960 in the North Beach neighborhood at 1353 Grant Avenue in San Francisco, California, U.S.. It was a lesbian pickup spot, known for its Wednesday poetry nights and was a hangout for Beat poets. It is considered a pioneering gay bar, and had historically faced legal issues in order to maintain operations.
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Old Spaghetti Factory Cafe
The Old Spaghetti Factory Cafe, officially known as the Old Spaghetti Factory and Excelsior Coffee House at the time of opening, is a historic commercial building, first built for industrial purposes in 1908, located in North Beach, San Francisco. It was converted from a spaghetti factory to a nightclub, coffee house, and restaurant by Frederick Walter Kuh in 1956 after it was heavily damaged in a fire several years earlier. It was listed as San Francisco Designated Landmark number 127 on June 7, 1981.
It was known for being a center of beatnik culture, hosting live performances of various of music and comedy, decorated with Kuh's large personal collection of Victorian furniture on its interior. The business ran until 1984, excluding an approximately year-long period where the main building was shut down for fire code violations, when Kuh retired and sold the restaurant and its furnishings.
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Barbary Coast Trail
The Barbary Coast Trail is a marked trail that connects a series of historic sites and several local history museums in San Francisco, California. Approximately 180 bronze medallions and arrows embedded in the sidewalk mark the 3.8-mile (6.1 km) trail.
The historic sites of the Barbary Coast Trail relate primarily to the period from the California Gold Rush of 1849 to the Earthquake and Fire of 1906, a period when San Francisco grew from a small village to an important shipping port.
Sites along the trail include the Old Mint, a national historic landmark; Union Square; Maiden Lane; Old St. Mary's Cathedral, first Catholic cathedral West of the Rockies; T'ien Hou temple, one of the oldest still-operating Chinese temples in the United States; Wells Fargo History Museum; Pony Express headquarters site; Jackson Square Historic District, which contains the last cluster of Gold Rush and Barbary Coast-era buildings in San Francisco; The Old Ship Saloon, once a shanghaiing den; Coit Tower; Fisherman's Wharf; SF Maritime National Historical Park, which maintains a large collection of historic ships; and Ghirardelli Square.
Each end of the Barbary Coast Trail is connected by the Hyde-Powell cable car line, itself a national historic landmark.