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The restaurant was grossing $90,000 monthly during its first year of operations. [5] By the end of 1978, Victoria Station had 97 restaurants, all company owned. [6] The chain was designed to attract members of the baby boom generation. The theme of the restaurant was loosely based on London's Victoria Station.
San Francisco PCC-type streetcar 1167 southbound on Church Street. San Francisco in the 1970s was a global hub of culture. It was known worldwide for hippies and radicals. The city was heavily affected by drugs, prostitution and crime. Outcasts and the socially marginalized were attracted by a greater tolerance and acceptance of diverse ...
United States. The Washington Square Bar & Grill was a landmark restaurant adjoining Washington Square in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood (Powell at Union streets). Known widely as the Washbag, so named by columnist Herb Caen as a play on words, it was a favorite gathering place for a generation of writers, politicians, musicians, and ...
Fleur de Lys (restaurant) Coordinates: 37.78856°N 122.41310°W. Image of Fleur de Lys restaurant. Fleur de Lys was a French restaurant in San Francisco, California, US. It closed in June 2014 after a 28-year run. [1][2] A sister restaurant in Las Vegas by the same name was closed in 2010 and reopened under the name Fleur by Hubert Keller in 2010.
Added to NRHP. April 29, 1982. Designated SFDL. 1970 [2] Ghirardelli Square is a landmark public square in the Marina District of San Francisco, California, United States. A portion of the area was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 as Pioneer Woolen Mills and D. Ghirardelli Company.
Helen. Johnny Kan (1906–1972) was a Chinese American restaurateur in Chinatown, San Francisco, ca 1950–1970. He was the owner of Johnny Kan's restaurant, which opened in 1953, and published a book on Cantonese cuisine, Eight Immortal Flavors, which was praised by Craig Claiborne and James Beard. [ 1 ] Kan and Cecilia Chiang (proprietor of ...
Compton's Cafeteria was a chain of cafeterias owned by Gene Compton in San Francisco from the 1940s to the 1970s. The Tenderloin location of Compton's at 101 Taylor Street (at Turk)—open from 1954 to 1972—was a popular meeting place for transgender people, especially trans women, [ 12 ] to congregate publicly in the city.
The Magic Pan logo, ca 1970s Guest Receipt from 1975. The Magic Pan is a small American chain of fast-food and take-away creperies using the recipes of a now-closed chain of full-service restaurants that specialized in crêpes, popular in the early 1970s through early 1990s, which peaked at 110 Magic Pan locations [when?] throughout the United States and Canada.