• The Barbary Coast was a red-light district during the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries in San Francisco that featured dance halls, concert...
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    Barbary Coast is a 1935 American historical Western film directed by Howard Hawks. Shot in black-and-white and set in San Francisco's so-called Barbary...
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  • Barbary-Coast Bunny is a 1956 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon short directed by Chuck Jones and written by Tedd Pierce. The short was released on July...
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  • Libya. Barbary Coast may also refer to: Barbary Coast, San Francisco Barbary Coast Trail, a walking tour in San Francisco, California Barbary Coast Lounge...
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  • title was taken from the setting, "a square-mile section of San Francisco called the Barbary Coast, a wide-open, rip-roaring district whose inhabitants ranged...
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    The Barbary Coast Trail is a marked trail that connects a series of historic sites and several local history museums in San Francisco, California. Approximately...
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  • notorious Barbary Coast of San Francisco. Mary becomes a star attraction at the Paradise, especially for her signature tune, "San Francisco". Blackie's...
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  • Kane. Naive Montana cowboy Duke Fergus arrives in San Francisco and visits the notorious Barbary Coast. Fergus becomes smitten with the lovely star attraction...
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  • Barbary Coast Gent is a 1944 American Western comedy film set in 1880s San Francisco's Barbary Coast and Nevada starring Wallace Beery. The movie was directed...
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  • Pacific Street district of San Francisco. During the late 19th and early 20th-centuries within San Francisco, the Barbary Coast was a red-light district...
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  • Terrific Street (category Barbary Coast, San Francisco)
    Terrific Street was a short-lived entertainment district on San Francisco's Barbary Coast during the early 20th century. It consisted of dance halls,...
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  • Sydney Ducks (category Barbary Coast, San Francisco)
    Mick Sinclair, San Francisco: a cultural and literary history, Signal Books, 2004 pp. 54-57 Asbury, Herbert (1933). The Barbary Coast, An Informal History...
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    The Tenderloin is a neighborhood in downtown San Francisco, in the flatlands on the southern slope of Nob Hill, situated between the Union Square shopping...
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    last night of the Barbary Coast red-light section of San Francisco. In reality, the Barbary Coast wasn't shut down until 1917. The film, directed by Hal...
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  • 'Boarding Masters,' etc." San Francisco News Letter February 19, 1881. Shanghaiing at StupidQuestion.net. The Barbary Coast: San Francisco's Bawdy Paradise has...
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    around 1909. Another theory states that it originated on the Barbary Coast, San Francisco, California. Joseph M. Daly wrote music for the dance in 1912...
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    she could not pay a $133 electricity bill. Going to Union Square in San Francisco one night, she earned $1,000 in five hours.[citation needed] On June...
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    Belle Cora (category Barbary Coast, San Francisco)
    18/19, 1862), also known as Arabella Ryan, was a madam of the Barbary Coast of San Francisco during the mid-nineteenth century. She rose to public attention...
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    Nob Hill (film) (category Barbary Coast, San Francisco)
    Nob Hill is a 1945 Technicolor film about a Barbary Coast, San Francisco, United States saloon keeper, starring George Raft and Joan Bennett. Part musical...
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  • The Barbary Coast Collective lounge on Mission Street in San Francisco, California is the first Amsterdam-style coffee shop allowing on-premises cannabis...
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    the Klondike Gold Rush began after boats loaded with gold arrived in San Francisco and Seattle. Thousands of people rushed to the area in hopes of making...
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    35,000 European slaves were held throughout the 17th century on the Barbary Coast, across Tripoli and Tunis, but mostly in Algiers. The majority were...
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    political shift resulted in San Francisco's queer culture reemerging in bars, nightclubs, and entertainment of the Barbary Coast, removed from policing and...
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    Plankinton sold the Chicken Ranch for $1,250,000 to Kenneth Green, a San Francisco businessman, and Russel Reade, an ex-teacher. Reade, who had contributed...
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    Slaves SWOP-USA People Red-light districts Barbary Coast, San Francisco The Block, Baltimore Broadway (San Francisco) Bucktown, Davenport Burnt District, Omaha...
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    "Great Neighborhoods in America". North Beach is bounded by the former Barbary Coast, now Jackson Square, the Financial District south of Broadway, Chinatown...
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  • Ernie's (category Barbary Coast, San Francisco)
    around the turn of the 20th century. It was located near the notorious Barbary Coast area of the city. In the 1950s, it became known as a luxurious restaurant...
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  • Barbary Coast is a musical that opened at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco on February 28, 1978. William Penzner was looking for a Broadway transfer...
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  • Prohibition-era drink, its origins are unknown, though the Barbary Coast was a nine-block area in San Francisco that was a red-light district frequented by sailors...
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    violate the prohibition of brothels. Prostitution portal Artemis Barbary Coast, San Francisco Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and...
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