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Jason Allen-Rouman
415-901-1737
fax 415-704-3456
jason.allen-rouman@sothebyshomes.com
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Western Addition
The first multicultural neighborhood in San Francisco history, the Western Addition runs east/west from Van Ness Avenue to Divisadero Street, and is bordered by Geary Boulevard to the north and McAllister Street, Fulton Street and Golden Gate Avenue to the south. Originally developed in the early 1900s as a middle class suburb (many Victorian-style buildings in the area still exist today), the Western Addition was heavily populated by African-American and Japanese-American families until World War II, when anti-Japanese sentiment following the bombing of Pearl Harbor led to the internment of many Japanese-American residents and the confiscation of their properties by the federal government. At the end of the war, many Japanese-Americans returned to the Western Addition, only to find their homes and businesses had been razed to make way for Geary Boulevard (a city-long thoroughfare that had been built during WWII, reportedly to mark the divide between the working class residents in the Western Addition and the more upscale denizens of Pacific Heights).
Today, the neighborhood remains mostly middle class, a mix of African-American families and young urban professionals who are attracted to the area for its central location, not to mention its moderate housing prices. Steeped in music history (particularly during the 1930s and 1940s, when the neighborhood had a thriving jazz club scene), the Western Addition is also the location of The Fillmore, one of the top music venues in the country. Several bus lines (most notably, the 38 Geary) provide access to downtown due east, and to Ocean Beach due west.
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