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Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Annie Street Plaza, April 2023
Annie Street is an important pathway for pedestrians connecting Market Street and Mission Street. The Plaza makes it safer for high volumes of pedestrians who use the alley every day to travel from Market Street to Mission Street – where there are numerous museums, galleries, and other community institutions.
Annie Street Plaza is part of the YBCBD’s award-winning Yerba Buena Street Life Plan, a road map of more than 30 projects for enhancing public spaces in the neighborhood. The Street Life Plan Plan and idea for the plaza came from neighborhood businesses, cultural institutions, nonprofits and residents over four years of community outreach and planning. Designs and programming ideas for the plaza were created through a year-long community review process involving several public meetings. The Yerba Buena Community Benefit District sponsors all the stewardship, maintenance, activation and public safety programs on the site.
American Can Company, Illinois and 20th, April 2023
The American Can Company's San Francisco factory was located at 2325 3rd St, specifically in the area bordered by 20th to 22nd Street, 3rd Street, and Illinois Street. This complex, which included the North Building, was part of a larger manufacturing area that stretched over two and a half city blocks.
Elaboration:
- The American Can Company, a major manufacturer of tin cans and containers, had a significant presence in San Francisco.
- Construction of the company's factory on 3rd Street began in 1915 and was completed in stages until 1955.
- This facility, including the North Building, was located at 2325 3rd St.
- The North Building specifically spanned from 20th Street to 22nd Street, with 3rd Street and Illinois Street forming its boundaries.
- The factory played a vital role in supplying West Coast canneries with cans and milk cartons.
- The San Francisco factory eventually shut down in 1969.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Woodward Gardens, 1866 to 1891, Mission District
Woodward's Gardens, commonly referred to as The Gardens, was a combination amusement park, museum, art gallery, zoo, and aquarium operating from 1866 to 1891 in the Mission District of San Francisco, California. The Gardens covered two city blocks, bounded by Mission, Valencia, 13th, and 15th Streets in San Francisco. The site currently has a brick building at 1700 Mission Street, built after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which features a California Historical Site plaque, and the Crafty Fox Alehouse on the ground floor (formerly a restaurant named Woodward's Garden). The former Gardens site also features the current location of the San Francisco Armory, completed in 1914.
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