Title: “New Decorating Center to End Barbary Coast"

Collection: SF Vice Regulation 1949-1993

Date: 06/05/1957

Description:

Last vestige of San Francisco Barbary Coast is to be rubbed out. “Terrific street” going respectable. Once gaudy bawdy block on Pacific St. between Kearny and Montgomery – the hub and all that remains of the rearing old Coast and its modern synthetic descendant, the International Settlement. It is to be converted into a discreet business block of wholesale fabric, drapery, and furniture firms.