Kearny Street in San Francisco, California runs from Market Street on the south to The Embarcadero on the north. Along its southern end, the street serves as the border separating the Financial District from the city's Union Square and Chinatown districts. Further north, it passes over the top of Telegraph Hill.
Kearny Street was originally named "La Calle de la Fundacion" by the Spanish. Translated, this means "street of the foundation." The ori...
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Kearny Street in San Francisco, California runs from Market Street on the south to The Embarcadero on the north. Along its southern end, the street serves as the border separating the Financial District from the city's Union Square and Chinatown districts. Further north, it passes over the top of Telegraph Hill.
Kearny Street was originally named "La Calle de la Fundacion" by the Spanish. Translated, this means "street of the foundation." The origin of the present name, Kearny Street, is generally assumed to be Stephen Watts Kearny, the first military governor of California under U.S. rule. Another possible namesake includes General Philip Kearny.
At Kearny and Clay, the first cable car in America, invented by Andrew S. Hallidie on August 2, 1873, climbed five blocks up the Clay Street hill.
From the turn of the twentieth century until 1977, the area around the intersection of Kearny and Jackson Streets was home to a large Filipino population, and earned the nickname Manilatown....
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