San Francisco's Fillmore District Works
To Bring Back Music, Culture
Lost To Redevelopment
When the Rev. Arnold Townsend was a teenager, he would drive up to San Francisco from Los Angeles in his friend's 1955 Chevy. He and his friend would set out on a Friday and spend the weekend partying up and down Fillmore Street. There was a nightlife in Los Angeles, but nothing quite like San Francisco, he said.
Clubs used to start at Haight and span to north of Clay Street and many also lined Divisadero, according to Townsend, an associate minister at Without Walls Church. There was Half Note, Club Morocco, Elsie's Breakfast Club, Blue Mirror, Sportsman…
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