Kearny Street

Kearny Street

Kearny Street in San Francisco, California runs from Market Street on the south to The Embarcadero on the north. Along its southern end, the street serves as the border separating the Financial District from the city's Union Square and Chinatown districts. Further north, it passes over the top of Telegraph Hill.

History

Kearny Street was originally named "La Calle de la Fundacion" by the Spanish. Translated, this means "street of the foundation." The origin of the present name, Kearny Street, is generally assumed to be Stephen Watts Kearny, the first military governor of California under U.S. rule.cite web
url = http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgstr.htm
title = The Making and Naming Of the Streets of San Francisco.
newspaper = San Francisco Call
first = Samuel L.
last = Lupton
date = 8 September 1901
year = 1901
] Other possible namesakes include Denis Kearney and General Phil Kearny.citation
url = http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgsto11.htm
title = When Kearny Street Was Young
first = Walter J.
last=Thompson
newspaper = San Francisco Chronicle
year = 1916
date = 27 August 1916
pages = 28
]

At Kearny and Clay, the first cable car in America, invented by Andrew S. Hallidie, on August 2, 1873, climbed five blocks up the Clay Street hill.

From the turn of the twentieth century until 1977, the area around the intersection of Kearny and Jackson Streets was home to a large Filipino population, and earned the nickname Manilatown. Located at 848 Kearny Street, the International Hotel served as the heart of Manilatown. In its heyday of the 1920s and 1930s, the estimated population of Manilatown was between 20,000 and 40,000 people.citation
url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/07/28/BAG357U2TN1.DTL
title = 'Manilatown' will rise again
first = Cicero A.
last = Estrella
newspaper = San Francisco Chronicle
year = 2004
date = 28 July 2004
pages = B1
] , cite web
url = http://www.manilatown.org/ourpast.htm
title = Manilatown: Seeds of the Community
publisher = Manilatown Heritage Foundation
accessmonthday = 17 December
accessyear = 2007
] In 1968, the hotel was sold to developers intending to replace it with more profitable commercial property. After a protracted court battle, the remaining two hundred odd tenants were forcibly evicted on 4 August 1977. On 27 July 2004, a two block stretch of Kearny St. was officially declared to be Manilatown.

Landmarks

Landmarks along Kearny Street include Lotta's Fountain at Market Street, where 1906 Earthquake commemorations are held; the 555 California Street, the city's second tallest skyscraper; the location of the old Hall of Justice at Kearny and Clay Streets now occupied by the Holiday Inn; the Lusty Lady, the nation's first worker-owned peep show; the eastern border of Portsmouth Square, the original Plaza of the pueblo of Yerba Buena; and Coit Tower, at the top of Telegraph Hill.

References

Other Uses

* "Kearny Street" is a song by American composer Rod McKuen.

ee also

*O'Brien, Robert, "This is San Francisco." 1948. 1994 Chronicle Books ISBN 0-8118-0578-6


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