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Neighborhood Spotlight: Financial District Feb. 8, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail San Francisco skyline and Bay Bridge at sunset.Shutterstock The Transamerica Pyramid alone makes San Francisco’s skyline one of the most identifiable on Earth, but there’s plenty of other architectural gems in the Financial District. Home to Fortune 500 headquarters, consulates and landmarks, San Francisco’s Financial District serves as a thriving hub in one of the world’s most famous cities. The blocks of the Financial District are defined by handsome buildings with stately architecture. There’s malls, art galleries parks and pubic squares, too. The Financial District enjoys proximity to Chinatown, Union Square, Jackson Square and North Beach. The Embarcadero, waterfront and Ferry Building are on its eastern side. ....
S.F. s rebirth from disaster was an occasion to party 24/7 Gary Kamiya FacebookTwitterEmail Participants in a Portola Festival parade in San Francisco on Oct. 21, 1909.File photo 1909 At 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 1909, Don Gaspar de Portola, discoverer of San Francisco Bay, stepped in his resplendent Spanish outfit off a boat on the San Francisco waterfront, mounted his noble steed and was escorted by a company of halberd-wielding dragoons up Market Street as thousands of his loyal subjects cheered. When he arrived at Union Square, Don Gaspar knelt and kissed the hand of beautiful Queen Vergilia, ushering in five days of mad carnival that ended only when the gracious don ascended into the sky in a hot air balloon. ....