Now: A walk up Fillmore Street from south to north will reflect each neighborhood it passes through. 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 and chain establishments blend together comfortably up to the precipitous tilt toward the bay.

Then: 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.