Vesuvio Cafe
One of the early North Beach hangouts for beatnicks, many of the local music talent…
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Avalon Ballroom – Janis Joplin’s First Public Appearance With Big Brother
On June 10, 1966, Janis Joplin made her first public appearance with Big Brother and the…
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Basin Street West
Basin Street West was a famous Jazz club which gradually migrated towards rock before…
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Bimbo’s 365 Club
Lines of long-stemmed chorus girls kicked high to the music when this club first opened…
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Both/And – “Ball And Chain” By “Big Mama” Thornton Heard Here By Janis Joplin
“Big Mama” Thornton was a regular at this jazz club, one of her songs “Ball and Chain” was…
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Coffee Gallery – Grace Slick And The Great Society First Public Appearance
Grace Slick and The Great Society made its first public appearance here for the opening of…
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Wally Heider’s San Francisco Recording Studios
Wally Heider was very well known for making excellent studio and remote location…
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Funky Features
What originally started as a home recording studio quickly became a favorite recording…
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Pacific High Studios
In 1969 the Grateful Dead recorded the masterwork “Workingman’s Dead” here. Other…
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Fillmore Records
Cold Blood was one of the first rock groups to be signed by Bill Graham’s Fillmore…
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The Automatt
In 1978, The Automatt rose out of the ashes of Columbia Records’ old location, and…
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Columbus Recorders
In an attempt to duplicate the free form nature of a live Grateful Dead show, the…
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Miyako Hotel – The Wrap Party For The Last Waltz Was Held Here
After wrapping “The Last Waltz”, the cast and crew repaired to the Garden Bar…
Read MoreNob Hill Hotel – Rock Star’s Home Away From Home
The Nob Hill is a 56 room boutique hotel in the affluent Nob Hill district of…
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Fairmont Hotel – I Left My Heart In San Francisco First Sang Here
Famous as the home the Venetian Room, the first place that Tony Bennett…
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Albin Rooming House – Big Brother And The Holding Company Began Here
Rod Albin started managing the property in 1964, allowing his brother Peter and other students from San Francisco State …
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Mars Hotel – There Really Was A Mars Hotel
Yep, there really was a Mars Hotel… it was only a few blocks away from where…
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