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Places
of the Fillmore From the days of the Great Earthquake to the first stages of urban renewal to today, explore the streets of the Fillmore and you'll discover the evolution of a neighborhood. |
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The
Fillmore:
Then and Now |
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Take
a video tour of the Fillmore today
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See
San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.
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The Chicago Barber Shop in its original location before redevelopment.
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Urban
Renewal in the Fillmore
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Map
of A1
The first phase of redevelopment in the Fillmore. |
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Map
of A2
The second phase of redevelopment in the Fillmore that would target some 60 square blocks affecting more than 13,000 residents. |
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One
alternative to destroying the Victorians was to remove the entire
building and relocate it out of the area under redevelopment.
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The
church that Reverend Wilbur Hamilton's father built. Hamilton would
later demolish it while working on Phase A2 for the Redevelopment
Agency.
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Process
of elimination: a Fillmore building transformed into its skeletal
remains.
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Clubs
of the Fillmore
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Club
Flamingo: one of the many clubs that used to form an archipelago
of music in the Fillmore.
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John
Lee Hooker's The Boom Boom Room is one of the clubs that has rejuvenated
the movement to bring music back to the streets of the Fillmore.
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"The Fillmore represented the pinnacle of creative music making in the late 1960s. The Fillmore audiences experienced a 2-year musical and cultural Renaissance that produced some of the most innovative, exciting music ever to come out of San Francisco." - from the Fillmore Auditorium web site |
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| On the night of December 10, 1965, Bill Graham held his first concert at the Fillmore Auditorium as a benefit for the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Graham borrowed the auditorium from leaseholder Charles Sullivan. Sullivan an African American man who, during the 1950s and 1960s, was the largest promoter of black music west of the Mississippi. In 1966, Sullivan was found murdered and the crime has to this day remained unsolved. | |||
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