Marina District, San Francisco

37.803055555556 - 122.43611111111Koordinaten: 37 ° 48 '11 " N, 122 ° 26' 10" W

The Marina District is one of the northernmost parts of the city of San Francisco in California. It is to the east by Van Ness Ave, bounded on the west by the Lyon Street and the Presidio and on the south by Lombard Street. On the territory of the present-day city was part of the 1915 World Exposition Panama - Pacific International Exposition held, was filled to a lagoon with sand and thus converted into usable land. With the World Expo, the city could show that they had recovered from the 1906 earthquake. After the exhibition, all the buildings were demolished with the exception of the Palace of Fine Arts, to make way for today's residential area.

Cow Hollow, Russian Hill and the Presidio limit the Marina District to the south, east and west.

History

In the bay of San Francisco, north of Cow Hollow, a dike was built parallel to the shoreline and filled the enclosed marshland with sand from the seabed. With dredging, the water was deeper, and so founded the St. Francis Yacht Club and the Golden Gate Yacht Club, the representative places at the foot of Baker Street are taking. To the east, Marina Green, a sprawling green area, which is mostly used by joggers. The Golden Gate Promenade is ideal for walking. It runs parallel to the Marina Boulevard and a few kilometers further to the eponymous bridge. Starting at Crissy Field, a former airfield of the Presidio, natural wetlands and Tidepools were simulated by large landscape planning efforts that range from Marina Green to the bridge.

To the origin of the Marina District, numerous myths have arisen. Many people claim that the area was built on the rubble that was dumped after the great earthquake in 1906 in the bay. Recordings of the Marina District, until 1912, however, show that the largest part of the area was still part of the bay, which raises the question why it took six years to dump the rubble and creating Marina. 1885 Filbert Street was still the old Presidio Road. Two blocks north toward the bay, where today the Lombard Street, there were at the height of Buchanan Street 10 meter high sand dunes. The coastline had already been displaced by industrial areas to the north. Between Laguna Street and Steiner Street, in the area of ​​today's Moscone Recreation Center and the Marina Middle School, was located Lobos Square, a piece of land which has been leveled by erosion of dunes, to make room for berths and industrial plants.

Most of it was destroyed in 1906, including the power plant of Gas Light Company. Just the brick buildings of the measuring element was left, and the date of completion, 1893, can be seen today in a doorway behind the Marina Safeway, at the intersection of Buchanan and North Point.

To the west, on the North Point Street, the pavement tends to a point where once the coast and sea came together. In the 1890s a dike, which was part of a large project, which won there erected building tycoon James Graham Fair 283,000 square meters of land and an industrial park was to be built. The enclosed land should be filled with sand, which, however, went out with the completion of the dams. What was it looked like a big bathtub full of water.

Until 1912 there was the crossing of the streets North Point and Fillmore, which lies at the heart of today's Marina, still in the midst of the bay. The organizers of the Panama - Pacific International Exposition hired James G. Fair pond and finished the project. After two dredging and 146 days later, the tub was filled with 100,000 cubic meters of sand and mud.

After the end of World Expo 1915, the heirs of Fair got back the land and sold it to the Marina Development Corporation. City planner Michael O'Shaughnessy built on roads that he both united with the original, like a chessboard extending streets of the city, whose arrangement, however, is contrary to the older parts of the city, and reminiscent in some areas of Marina in a maze. The Marina Development Corporation divided the area into 634 residential plots and the Marina Green. In its expansion in the 1920s the previously known under the name Harborview or North End Area The Marina was called.

Geography

U.S. Highway 101/Lombard Street is a boulevard that divides the southern half of Marina. Along the road are motels that were built at the opening ceremony of the Golden Gate Bridge, and a number of retail stores, fast food shops and houses. Meet on the street tourists who are in search of Ghirardelli Square and the Golden Gate Bridge, to residents living in the Marina / Cow Hollow area and children on their way to the Marina Middle School on a typical afternoon. Lombard Street runs between Cow Hollow Marina in the south and in the north and is sometimes referred to as Nolo [ north of Lombard ].

In the Moscone Recreation Center are the largest children's playgrounds in the city, as well as tennis and basketball courts and a volleyball area. The park serves the residents of San Francisco for generations as a meeting place and can be seen in numerous historical films. The piece of land, on which, during the World Expo 1915, the Tower of Jewels was originally called Funston Park. The park was renamed in memory of the assassinated Mayor George Moscone and calls on policy, the conservative activists of the Marina District, who were against Moscones progressive politics.

The Marina Green is a picturesque park, which is adjacent to the marinas and the bay of San Francisco. The wind at the Marina Green often exceeds 80 km / h and is therefore perfect for windsurfing at nearby East Beach.

Among the schools in the Tule Elk Marina include Child Development Center and Marina Middle School, whose students are brought mainly from other, less wealthy districts of San Francisco by bus. The few children and young people who live in the area, mainly go to private schools.

Earthquake

The Loma Prieta earthquake caused considerable damage in 1989 and many people came to the ruins of their houses lost their lives. Worst hit was the area created by landfill due to the caused by the earthquake soil liquefaction.

There is an area in The Marina, which has not been filled up. This is bounded by Fort Mason, Octavia Street, Lombard Street and Van Ness Avenue. Because of its geologically original subsoil of sandstone and basement rocks it is called The Gold Box. From there it is equidistant to the shops and restaurants of Chestnut Street ( Marina), Union Street (Cow Hollow ) and Polk Street ( Russian Hill ). Very close also include Fort Mason, Moscone Recreation Center and the Marina Safeway.

Remarkable buildings

Marina Safeway - The "Marina" prototype was the first modern concept store: a classic piece of architecture, named after the first Safeway store, which was planned so on Marina Boulevard in San Francisco. Since its construction in June 1959, the external appearance of the supermarket was little changed. Hundreds more of this kind now exist in North America, and most of them were rebuilt and extended. The Marina Safeway is especially known for its singles scene. Under the name of Single Use Safeway, lately also Dateway, he is considered one of the most promising places in the city to get to know someone or tear. This " concept " was first described by a native of San Francisco writer Armistead Maupin in his Tales of the City.

Exploratorium - One of the most famous museums in San Francisco is the Exploratorium at the Palace of Fine Arts. The Science Center offers a year more than half a million visitors ' science hands-on " and is suitable through this interactivity, especially for children. Schools from Northern California regularly organize day trips here.

Films in which The Marina occurs

• Tales of the City ( 1970 to mid-2000s )
• 10.5 - The earth trembles ( TV miniseries, 2004)
• Red Diaper Baby ( 2004)
• Twisted - The first suspect (2004)
• What the Bleep do we (k ) now? (2004)
• Julie and Jack (2003)
• MDs (TV series 2002-2003)
• Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001)
• First Years / This Life ( TV pilot 2001)
• Boys, Girls & a Kiss (2000)
• Down to None (2000)
• Groove - 130 bpm (2000)
• Playing Mona Lisa (2000)
• Woman on Top (2000)
• The Bachelor (1999)
• The 200 years Man (1999)
• EDtv (1999)
• The Other Sister (1999)
• Stigmata (1999)
• Dr. Dolittle (1998)
• More Tales of the City (1998)
• I desire your son (1996, TV)
• Nash Bridges (1996-2001)
• Copycat (1995 )
• Murder in the First ( 1995)
• Mrs. Doubtfire - The prickly Nanny ( 1993)
• Wolf (1989, TV)
• Turnover Smith ( 1980)
• A very crooked Tour ( 1978)
• Dirty Harry III - The Enforcer (1976 )
• The dialogue (1974 )