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MOTORIZED CABLE CAR MAGICAL MUSICAL HISTORY TOUR de FORCE

Join the San Francisco Association of Performing Artists-in-Residence aboard a vintage designed motorized cable car in our original and Only in San Francisco Motorized Cable Car Magical Musical History Tour de Force. More than a tour, this is a unique theatrical event featuring live performances by SFAPA Artists on board one of the City’s replica “rolling landmarks”. This musical tour-de-force is hosted by your SFAPA guide featuring historic sites and live covers of performances by San Francisco iconic and legendary artists.

August 2, 1873 – Andrew Smith Hallidie conducts a test ride of the first cable car on Clay Street in partnership with the Clay Street Hill Railroad Company which began public service on September 1, 1873.

FEATURED SITES

LOTTA’S FOUNTAIN 1905

LOTTA’S FOUNTAIN 1905 LUISA TETRAZZINI

Palace Hotel 1906 PALACE HOTEL 1906

TERRIFIC STREET 1912

FAIRMONT HOTEL 1906

WAR MEMORIAL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 1932

OPERA HOUSE 1932

EXPOSITION (CIVIC) AUDITORIUM 1917

BANDSHELL GGP 1906

The Fillmore District 1940 THE FILLMORE DISTRICT 1940

FILLMORE WEST

FILLMORE WEST (CAROUSEL BALLROOM) 1968

HAIGHT THEATER

SUMMER OF LOVE 1967

HAIGHT-ASHBURY

ASHBURY STREET GRATEFUL DEAD

CELEBRATED ARTISTS

LOTTA CRABTREE (1905)

ENRICO CARUSO (1906)

LUISA TETRAZZINI (1910)

SOPHIE TUCKER (1920)

SARAH VAUGH (1946)

ENRICO CARUSO (1906)

JANIS JOPLIN (1967)

JIMI HENDRIX (1967)

ENSEMBLE: HAIR THE MUSICAL (1967)

SFAPA Presents ™

FINOCCHIO’S FOLLIES

Finocchio’s was a Prohibition era speakeasy called the 201 Club in 1929 at 406 Stockton Street. When Prohibition was repealed in 1933 the club started to offer female impersonation acts. After police raids in 1936 the club moved to 506 Broadway and was a favorite of straight and gay tourists until closing in 1999.

FINOCCHIO’S FOLLIES

Finocchio’s North Beach
506 Broadway 1958

SFAPA Presents ™

TERRIFIC STREET

featuring

THE SPIDER KELLY
Memorial Band

On San Francisco’s Barbary Coast during the early 20th century “Terrific Street” was popular for its dance halls, jazz clubs, and saloons. Pacific Street between Kearny and Montgomery streets was first called ‘Terrific Street‘ in the 1890s by musicians describing the quality of music where the first jazz clubs opened in San Francisco. Terrific Street‘s jazz music scene grew from earlier versions of ragtime and blues. Nationally known dance steps like the Texas Tommy and the Turkey Trot were invented onTerrific Street. The district attracted many famous singers and musicians like Sophie Tucker, Al Jolson, and Jelly Roll Morton and inspired composers and band leaders like Art Hickman and Paul Whiteman.
Spider Kelly, born James Curtin, was a lightweight boxer who immigrated to San Francisco from Ireland. Kelly gained fame by opening this dance hall at 574 Pacific Street. In 1919 a local journalist described Spider Kelly’s dance hall: “Epicures and connoisseurs of good things in life say that an hour spent in Spider’s cafe is a sure cure for the tired feeling and will remove to oblivion all forms of melancholy.” One of the first bands to accompany the new rhythms was led by a drummer Art Hickman in San Francisco in 1916. Bandleader Paul Whiteman who was educated in classical music called his band’s music “symphonic jazz.” Whiteman recorded many jazz and pop standards during his career, including “Wang Wang Blues”, “Mississippi Mud”, “Rhapsody in Blue”, “Wonderful One”, “Hot Lips (He’s Got Hot Lips When He Plays Jazz)”, “Mississippi Suite”, “Grand Canyon Suite”, and “Trav’lin’ Light” and co-wrote the 1925 jazz classic “Flamin’ Mamie”. Bandleaders created big bands and played dance music incorporating popular songs from Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, Ragtime, and Vaudeville.

PACIFIC STREET 1909

(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)

SPIDER KELLY’S

San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

SFAPA Presents ™

THE FABULOUS TENDERLOINS
Turk Mason, Taylor Jones, Larkin McAllister, Ellis Leavenworth and Eddy O’Farrell
in The Red-Light Abatement Act

The Tenderloin is the neighborhood in downtown San Francisco, in the flatlands on the southern slope of Nob Hill, between the Union Square shopping district and the Civic Center.  The Tenderloin has been a downtown residential community since after the California Gold Rush in 1849.   The area had an active nightlife in the late 19th century with many theaters, restaurants and hotels.  The neighborhood was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire but rebuilt in a hurry with some hotels and some apartment buildings opening by 1907.  By the 1920s, the neighborhood was notorious for its gambling, billiard halls, boxing gyms, “speakeasies“, theaters, restaurants and other nightlife depicted in the detective fiction of author Dashiell Hammett, who lived at 891 Post Street in the apartment used by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon.  The Tenderloin was borne out of the Red Light Abatement Act of 1913, when vice pushed out from the Barbary Coast district to the southern and less business-occupied Tenderloin.

THE CHEZ PAREE

Broadway Street, San Francisco

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