![Third Street, San Francisco](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Third_Street%2C_San_Francisco.jpg)
Third Street is a north–south street in
San Francisco
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,
California
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, running through the
Downtown
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,
Mission Bay,
Potrero Point
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,
Dogpatch
Dogpatch was the fictional setting of cartoonist Al Capp's classic comic strip ''Li'l Abner'' (1934–1977).
''Li'l Abner'' comic strip
The inhabitants of Dogpatch were mostly lazy hillbillies, who usually wanted nothing to do with progress. ...
, and
Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhoods. The road turns into
Kearny Street
Kearny Street () in San Francisco, California runs north from Market Street to The Embarcadero. Toward its south end, it separates the Financial District from the Union Square and Chinatown districts. Further north, it passes over Telegraph ...
north of
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...
and connects into
Bayshore Boulevard
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south of Meade Avenue.
It was formerly called Kentucky Street in the
Dogpatch
Dogpatch was the fictional setting of cartoonist Al Capp's classic comic strip ''Li'l Abner'' (1934–1977).
''Li'l Abner'' comic strip
The inhabitants of Dogpatch were mostly lazy hillbillies, who usually wanted nothing to do with progress. ...
and Railroad Avenue in the
Bayview.
Major League Baseball's
San Francisco Giants
The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball team based in San Francisco, California. The Giants compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. Founded in 1883 as the New Yor ...
play at
Oracle Park
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on the intersection Third and King.
The majority of the street is served by the
T Third Street
The T Third Street is a Muni Metro light rail line in San Francisco, California. It runs along the east side of San Francisco — primarily in the median of Third Street — from to the Market Street subway. It is interlined with the ...
light rail line.
It was the first new light rail line in San Francisco in more than half a century, and the first fully accessible line in the system. It is also the first true
light rail line in the mostly streetcar Muni Metro system, as it operates primarily in the median.
In 2009, San Francisco Mayor
Gavin Newsom
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proposed Third Street be renamed for former mayor
Willie Brown.
[ ] The proposal was not adopted.
In the 1960s, the downtown section of Third Street was known as San Francisco's "
skid row
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", with most of its (then much smaller) homeless population concentrating there.
The street featured as a filming location in the
James Bond
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film ''
A View to a Kill
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'', when Bond escapes from police in a
fire engine
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by jumping over the rising
Lefty O'Doul Drawbridge
The Lefty O'Doul Bridge (also known as the Third Street Bridge or China Basin Bridge) is a bascule bridge connecting the China Basin and Mission Bay neighborhoods of San Francisco, carrying Third Street across the Mission Creek Channel. It is ...
.
References
Streets in San Francisco
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