Barbary Coast

06 May 2024

Mayor London Breed to Bring Back the Barbary Coast?

Mayor Breed’s newest revitalization scheme involves bringing an entertainment district á la New Orleans’ Bourbon Street to the Financial District. Another gambit to jumpstart downtown San Francisco, at least this idea doesn’t yearn for the dead-and-gone. Even Breed knows office culture is never coming back. Her plan shifts focus from

Jake Warren 0
08 Mar 2024

Eats & Fun Along The Barbary Coast Trail

The Barbary Coast Trail is hard to miss if you’ve ever walked around The FiDi, Chinatown or North Beach. You’ve probably seen one of the 150 bronze placards embedded in the sidewalks while you’re boppin’ around. Stretching across 4 miles of San Francisco, this walk is mostly on flat ground

Katy Atchison 0
10 Jul 2024

This New Literary Magazine is a Gift to the People of San Francisco

I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0
28 May 2019

Did San Francisco’s Oldest Bar, The Saloon, Actually Burn Down in 1906?

The Saloon, in North Beach, is regularly touted as San Francisco’s oldest bar, dating back to 1861. While other bars were started sooner, their original buildings were destroyed during the 1906 earthquake and fire. The Saloon miraculously survived thanks to the firefighters and sailors that stretched a hose from the Bay in order to rescue the prostitutes that lived above the watering hole.

Sam Devine 0
08 Jun 2016

Searching for History and the Good Life at the Barbary Coast

Why, I wondered, would someone as cool as Termeh throw her goodbye party at The Barbary Coast in North Beach?

Then I got to the entrance and it sucked me in again, dammit. It gets me every time.

Benjamin Wachs - Fascinating Stranger 0
19 Aug 2015

The City That Could Be: Looking to the Future

P Segal, Bohemian Archivist, has turned her attention from how great this city used to be to how incredible it could become, if Stuart were mayor. Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t been writing about the city that was these days. That’s because, at this pivotal point

P Segal - Bohemian Archivist 0
24 Jul 2015

Which San Francisco Streets are Named After Famous Prostitutes?

Maybe you’ve heard the rumor that some San Francisco streets are named after famous female courtesans of the Gold Rush era. It’s true! But only in a couple of cases. We busted out our history books, mythbusters and trips to the San Francisco Library History Center to determine which San

Joe Kukura- Millionaire in Training 0
04 Apr 2011

Broke-Ass Bar Guide – 440 Castro

With over 2,000 gin bins on the Barbary Coast, we here at BAS thought it might be time to catalogue them and keep you informed on what they have to satiate your thirsty, thirsty ways. So, here is the Broke-Ass Bar Guide – San Francisco. You get to know a little bit about what

Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact Finder (Editor, San Francisco) 0