Sights of San Francisco

Lombard Street begins at Presidio Boulevard inside The Presidio and runs east through the Cow Hollow neighborhood. Famous for having a one-way steep, one-block section that consists of eight sharp tight hairpin turns that have earned the street the distinction of being "the crookedest" street in the world.

The Haight is made up of two neighborhoods: Haight-Fillmore, usually called the Lower Haight, and Haight-Ashbury (aka Upper Haight). The two neighborhoods are separated by a large hill and are bisected by Divisadero Street. The neighborhoods have two separate histories whose cultures and identities merged in the 1960's as poor, young white hippies moved into the Upper Haight and began to communicate and learn from poor, young black residents of the Lower Haight. Together, these "outcasts" forged the counter-culture movement the Haight is most well known for.


Chinatown is the oldest and one of the largest Chinatowns in the US. More than just a tourist destination, it is a functioning, living, and breathing Chinese community that can offer intriguing cultural experiences even to the most jaded old China hand. This place sure reminded me of the crowded busy streets of my birth place Taipei, Taiwan.

Established in 1850, in the area around Portsmouth Plaza, San Francisco's Chinatown is reputed to be the oldest and one of the largest and most famous of all Chinatowns outside of Asia. Many of the Chinese who settled here were merchants or immigrant workers, working on either the transcontinental railroad or as mine workers during the Gold Rush. Today, it is home for more than 15,000 Chinese and Chinese-American.

Below you will see Sing Chong Building, this was one of the first places rebuilt after the 1906 eathquake in San Francisco and Old St. Mary's built in 1854, this landmark is California's first cathedral. Along with the Bank of America, decorated with gold dragons on its front columns and doors, along with 60 dragon medallions on its facade.
Chinatown


Here are some various sights of San Francisco...