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From the beginning, San Francisco crowds have entered theaters, arenas and clubs, never totally knowing what to expect.
John “Grizzly” Adams started the tradition in the 1850s at the Pacific Theater in Barbary Coast era — inebriated miners thought the bears advertised on the handbill would be fake, only to look at the beasts eye to eye.
The thrill of the unknown became a common drawing card for San Francisco entertainers, whether it was Robin Williams showing boundless energy in the city’s comedy clubs, Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead pushing psychedelic limits in Golden Gate Park or Francis Ford Coppola capturing the claustrophobic paranoia of the city in the 1970s in “The Conversation.”
The San Francisco Sound coming out of the Summer of Love is justifiably the city’s most storied musical achievement. But opera and symphony came first, and along with live theater set an early tone of excellence for San Francisco’s entertainment scene. After Luisa Tetrazzini christened the city with her 1910 a cappella performance in front of The Chronicle building, the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Opera were formed, producing a string of iconic conductors including Gaetano Merola, Pierre Monteux, Seiji Ozawa and Michael Tilson Thomas.
San Francisco has hosted legendary performances. The Beatles at Candlestick in 1966, the Band’s “The Last Waltz” concert in 1976, Placido Domingo’s 11th-hour rescue of the San Francisco Opera in 1983 and Comedy Day in Golden Gate Park during the Bobcat Goldthwait/Whoopi Goldberg years all qualify.
Smaller venues were arguably even more instrumental to the city’s cultural growth than the big ones. Jazz clubs in the 1940s and 1950s flourished in the Fillmore District and North Beach. Smaller clubs including Mabuhay Gardens and Temple Beautiful helped punk flourish in the 1970s, along with metal and underground rap in the 1990s.
Maverick painters, feature filmmakers, theater producers and documentarians have all chosen to settle in the Bay Area, often when the center of their industry is elsewhere. They have nothing in common and everything in common. Ready to push boundaries of their art, in a city that has always appreciated their efforts.
