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Follow Beat San Francisco through the city
Follow Beat San Francisco through 5 real places in San Francisco. Publishing, poetry and late-night conversation create a walkable North Beach cultural World.
Read in this order, then plan travel between the public locations. Historical references and private properties are not visitor stops. This is a story sequence, not a timed walking itinerary.
Place and area markers · not exact camera positions
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Open in maps ↗︎- 01Side A · The city enters the soundCITY CONTEXT / NOT A DOCUMENTED WORK SITE
Publishing, poetry and late-night conversation create a walkable North Beach cultural World.
City Lights Booksellers
Emily Mathews from Ann Arbor, MI · CC BY 2.0 · Cropped location photograph City Lights Booksellers provides North Beach orientation for this city guide. The current citation does not establish a specific Beat San Francisco scene, recording, performance or biographical event at this address, so it is not counted as a documented World location.
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- 02CITY CONTEXT / NOT A DOCUMENTED WORK SITE
Vesuvio Cafe
The wub · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cropped location photograph Vesuvio Cafe provides North Beach orientation for this city guide. The current citation does not establish a specific Beat San Francisco scene, recording, performance or biographical event at this address, so it is not counted as a documented World location.
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- 03Side B · Rooms, streets and stagesCITY CONTEXT / NOT A DOCUMENTED WORK SITE
Move from the defining image into the wider Beat San Francisco geography.
Haight and Ashbury
Daniel Schwen · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Cropped location photograph Haight and Ashbury provides Haight-Ashbury orientation for this city guide. The current citation does not establish a specific Beat San Francisco scene, recording, performance or biographical event at this address, so it is not counted as a documented World location.
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- 04CITY CONTEXT / NOT A DOCUMENTED WORK SITE
The Fillmore
Justin Higuchi from Los Angeles, CA, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Cropped location photograph The Fillmore provides Fillmore District orientation for this city guide. The current citation does not establish a specific Beat San Francisco scene, recording, performance or biographical event at this address, so it is not counted as a documented World location.
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- 05Encore · What the city keepsCITY CONTEXT / NOT A DOCUMENTED WORK SITE
End at Transamerica Pyramid, where the World continues as place, memory and living culture.
Transamerica Pyramid
Vitaly gooner · CC0 · Cropped location photograph Transamerica Pyramid provides Financial District orientation for this city guide. The current citation does not establish a specific Beat San Francisco scene, recording, performance or biographical event at this address, so it is not counted as a documented World location.
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