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SF's Barbary Coast History: from the Dancing Heifer to Historic District
When?
Tuesday, May 17
12:00PM - 1:30PM PDT
Where?
Online
Description
Not many places can boast they were a city's first commercial district; a lawless area rife with harlots, gamblers, and dance halls; and, in their current evolution, a stylish officially designated double landmark district!
San Francisco's Barbary Coast offers all three incarnations in spades.
The Barbary Coast was born during the Gold Rush of 1849 in areas of what is now Chinatown, North Beach and Jackson Square.
Catherine will tell us about the Barbary Coast's days as San Francisco's first red-light district, frequented by "the low and the vile of every kind." She'll tell us what made Terrific Street so terrific and share tales of some of the rather unique performing ladies of the Barbary Coast, who were known by names like the Galloping Cow, the Dancing Heifer, the Roaring Gimlet, the Waddling Duck, Lady Jane Grey, and the Little Lost Chicken. An 1849 correspondent of the New York Evening Post reported that "the people of San Francisco are mad, stark mad."
Our journey will be illustrated with historic images punctuated with a dazzling array of factual accounts and shockingly saucy tales as Catherine guides us from the district's historical past through its successful transformation to the landmark it is today.
SF's Barbary Coast is part of the Jackson Square local and National Register Historic Districts. It contains the first and only remaining Gold Rush businesses and over 100 architecturally significant structures.
This event is co-hosted by NEXT Village SF, Barbary Coast Neighborhood Association, Stanford Women's Club of SF, Stanford Club of SF, and Aquatic Park Senior Center.
San Francisco's Barbary Coast offers all three incarnations in spades.
The Barbary Coast was born during the Gold Rush of 1849 in areas of what is now Chinatown, North Beach and Jackson Square.
Catherine will tell us about the Barbary Coast's days as San Francisco's first red-light district, frequented by "the low and the vile of every kind." She'll tell us what made Terrific Street so terrific and share tales of some of the rather unique performing ladies of the Barbary Coast, who were known by names like the Galloping Cow, the Dancing Heifer, the Roaring Gimlet, the Waddling Duck, Lady Jane Grey, and the Little Lost Chicken. An 1849 correspondent of the New York Evening Post reported that "the people of San Francisco are mad, stark mad."
Our journey will be illustrated with historic images punctuated with a dazzling array of factual accounts and shockingly saucy tales as Catherine guides us from the district's historical past through its successful transformation to the landmark it is today.
SF's Barbary Coast is part of the Jackson Square local and National Register Historic Districts. It contains the first and only remaining Gold Rush businesses and over 100 architecturally significant structures.
This event is co-hosted by NEXT Village SF, Barbary Coast Neighborhood Association, Stanford Women's Club of SF, Stanford Club of SF, and Aquatic Park Senior Center.
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