Looking east down Pacific Street from Kearny Street during 1913. (San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)
Terrific Street was a short-lived entertainment district on San Francisco's Barbary Coast during the early 20th century.[1] It consisted of dance halls, jazz clubs, and various kinds of drinking establishments.[2] Terrific Street was centered upon a single block of Pacific Street, which was one of the earliest streets to cut through the hills of San Francisco,[3] starting near Portsmouth Square and continuing east to the first shipping docks at Buena Vista Cove. The district was located between Kearny and Montgomery streets on Pacific Street (now Avenue).
The term 'Terrific Street' was first used in the mid-1890s by musicians in describing the quality of music at Pacific Street's clubs, and indeed the first jazz clubs of San Francisco occurred there.[4] At the beginning, the prevailing music was ragtime and slow blues, but within the first decade of the 20th century the music clubs began to develop early forms of jazz. The district also attracted many famous entertainers such as actress Sarah Bernhardt, Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova, and musicians Sophie Tucker, Al Jolson, and Jelly Roll Morton.[5] A principal attraction of Terrific Street was dancing, and many nationally known dance steps like the Texas Tommy and the Turkey Trot were invented on Terrific Street.[6] However, the district's existence was short-lived, and Terrific Street's dominance slowly came to an end by 1921 after a newspaper's crusade to shut down the district, and severe restrictions were placed upon its dance halls by the Police Commission.[7]
^Bern, Medea Isphording (2015-01-05). San Francisco Jazz. Arcadia Publishing. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-4396-4928-2.
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