Now: A walk up Fillmore Street from south to north will reflect each neighborhood it passes through. In the Lower Haight it forms a quintessentially spicy intersection, turning residential as it inclines up to skirt Hayes Valley and Alamo Square. Toward Geary Boulevard, traces of the storied blues and jazz club past push like stubborn grass blades through unfortunate redevelopment and vain legacy redux. It touches Japantown at Post Street, and blossoms into its most dense commercial area through Pacific Heights. Unique shops, Mission eatery deja vus, and weedlike chain establishments blend together comfortably up to the precipitous tilt toward the bay. Fillmore plays one last glittery number as it slides down through Cow Hollow and hits the Marina.
Then: Always a main strip, Fillmore Street has been molded by the diverse ethnicities that have swirled around it. In the 1800s, it cut through farm land and later came to host a cable car line. During the 1940s and 1950s, nightclubs burned hot through the struggle of urban renewal. In the 1960s the elegant dance hall at Geary Boulevard became The Fillmore, an epicenter for rock and counterculture performance. See related postcards.
How To Get There: Sutter Street intersects the heart of the densely commercial Pacific Heights section of Fillmore Street, and three Muni bus lines (2, 3, 4) travel directly there from Sutter just north of Union Square. The 22 bus line travels Fillmore itself, up from the Lower Haight, and down from the Marina Green. There is a metered parking lot on California Street just west of Fillmore, across the street from Mollie Stone's.
Jackson Fillmore Restaurant
La Mediterannee on Fillmore
Curbside Cafe on California Street at Fillmore
Elite Cafe on Fillmore - New Orleans style restaurant and bar
Boulangerie on Fillmore
Fillmore Street between Sacramento and California
Paper Source - wrapping paper and related items
Mollie Stone's market on California Street near Fillmore
Pizzeria Delfina on California Street (across from Mollie Stone's)
Fillmore Street at Sacramento Street
Fillmore Street at Pine Street
Fillmore Street at Wilmot Street
Fillmore Hardware and Variety
Dosa on Fillmore Street at Post
SPQR on Fillmore, Roman cuisine from the owners of A16
The Fillmore Auditorium
Fillmore Street, south of Geary Boulevard
San Francisco-themed car parked on Fillmore Street near O'Farrell Street
Fillmore Street at Geary Boulevard
The Fillmore-22 Bus at Fillmore Street and Geary Boulevard
The Fillmore Center, on Fillmore at Ellis Street
Fillmore Karaoke on Fillmore at Ellis Street
Yoshi's Jazz Club and Japanese Restaurant on Fillmore at Eddy
Fillmore strip mall
Hamilton Recreation Center, at on Post Street at Steiner - currently undergoing renovation
Mural at Hamilton Recreation Center
Pedestrian bridge over Geary Boulevard, connecting Hamilton Recreation Center and Kimbell Playground
Raymond Kimbell Playground, at Geary and Steiner
Field in Kimbell Playground
Baseball field at Kimbell Playground
Raymond Kimbell Playground, on the Scott Street side
Fillmore Street drops steeply toward the bay at Broadway Street
Inscription in the sidewalk on Fillmore Street at Vallejo Street, just below Broadway
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