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| x San Francisco Twins |
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San Francisco | Influence Node |
Marian and Vivian Brown (b. 25 January, 1927) are American identical twins and as icons of San Francisco, known for the appearance in media with their signature identical bright snappy outfits with hats atop their meticulously coiffed hair. They...
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| x Frank Chu |
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San Francisco | Person |
Frank Chu (born 24 March 1960) is one of San Francisco's best-known eccentrics. His street protests against US Presidents, corporations, and a distinctive concept he calls the “12 Galaxies” have been held in San Francisco and nearby locales since at...
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| x World Famous Bushman |
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San Francisco | Musical Artist |
David Johnson, also known as the World Famous Bushman, is a busker who has been entertaining passers-by along Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco since 1980. His current act began after he tried dressing as a robot but found there were too many...
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| x Renée de la Prade |
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San Francisco | Person |
the squeeze box girl.
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| x Don Cunningham |
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San Francisco | Person |
Clarinetist, sometimes street musician.
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| x Jackie Floyd | Alemany Farmer's Market | Person |
Jackie Floyd is a musican who performs at the Alemany Farmers Market. She plays the guitar and musical saw, and performs with a handmade dancing cat.
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| x Dave Warnke |
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San Francisco | Person |
Dave Warnke is an artist and arts educator whose stickers and posters can be found in the streets throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
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| x The Tamale Lady |
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San Francisco | Person |
The Tamale Lady (aka Virginia Ramos) is a San Francisco icon. She makes the rounds or inner Mission and SoMa bars with her Coleman cooler-on-wheels stuffed with tamales made in her home that morning by her and her children. You'll find...
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| x Stephen LaBounty |
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San Francisco | Person |
Stephen "Woody" LaBounty is a native San Franciscan, writer, and historian. He is the co-founder of the Western Neighborhoods Project, a non-profit dedicated to preserving the history of San Francisco's...
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| x Michael Schwab |
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San Francisco | Visual Artist |
Michael Schwab is a graphic designer based in San Anselmo, California. His work includes poster series for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the 2007 Major League Baseball All-Stars Game, and Peet's Coffee.
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| x Herb Caen |
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San Francisco | Influence Node |
Herbert Eugene Caen (April 3, 1916 – February 1, 1997) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist working in San Francisco. Born in Sacramento, California, Caen worked for the San Francisco Chronicle from the late 1930s until his death, with an...
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| x Joshua A. Norton |
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San Francisco | Person |
Joshua Abraham Norton (c. 1819 – January 8, 1880), the self-proclaimed His Imperial Majesty Emperor Norton I, was a celebrated citizen of San Francisco, California, who in 1859 proclaimed himself "Emperor of these United States" and subsequently ...
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| x Robert Close | San Francisco | Person |
Robert Close is an opera singer who has been performing on Maiden Lane in San Francisco since 1998.
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| x Grimes Poznikov | Fisherman's Wharf | Person |
Grimes Poznikov (c. 1946 – 2005), known as "The Human Jukebox," was a fixture of San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf in the 1970s and 1980s. He was a street performer, who would wait in a cardboard refrigerator box until a passerby offered him a...
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| x Litz Plummer | San Francisco | Person |
Litz Plummer is an opera singer who performs in San Francisco's Maiden Lane.
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| x Donald Bailey | San Francisco | Person |
Donald Bailey is a drummer who is most well known for his work on many albums with Hammond B-3 organist, Jimmy Smith.
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| x Larry Moore | San Francisco |
Homeless person and owner of a shoe shine stand located at the corner of New Montgomery and Market Streets in San Francisco.
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| x Bill Dan |
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San Francisco | Person |
Bill Dan is a sculptor and performance artist specializing in rock balancing. He creates seemingly impossible, temporary balanced sculptures from un-worked rock and stone in public spaces near his home in San Francisco.
Dan was born in Indonesia,...
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