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The Trocadero is a historic building located in San Francisco. Formally it was a lively roadhouse at the turn of the 20th century it had offered gambling at roulette tables and dancing, as well as the best trout pond in California.
The building is listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark, since April 15, 2022.
SFmuseum.org: Trocadero and the Stern Grove Remembertheparty.com: Trocadero Transfer
{{Authority control Restaurants in San Francisco Sunset District, San Francisco Drinking establishments in the San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants established in 1892 1892 establishments in California 1930s disestablishments in California Defunct restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area San Francisco Designated Landmarks
The Trocadero is a historic building located in San Francisco. Formally it was a lively roadhouse at the turn of the 20th century it had offered gambling at roulette tables and dancing, as well as the best trout pond in California.
The building is listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark, since April 15, 2022.
History
It was opened in 1892, in a wooden building that had been brought around the Horn and was by reputation the first house built in San Francisco west of Twin Peaks, on the "rancho" of George Greene and the Greene family. The first seeds of Australian eucalyptus had been sown here, about 1871. Appropriately, it was at the Trocadero thatAbe Ruef
Abraham Ruef (September 2, 1864 – February 29, 1936) was an American lawyer and politician. He gained notoriety as the corrupt political boss behind the administration of Mayor Eugene Schmitz of San Francisco during the period before and after t ...
was found hiding, after his indictment in the notorious municipal graft trials of 1907.
In the 1930s, Bernard Maybeck recast the Trocadero Inn into a children's playground and renamed it the Sigmund Stern Recreation Grove.
Other uses
In San Francisco, "Trocadero" continued to have a connotation of stylish nighttime fun. In its heyday, the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Trocadero Transfer was regarded as the best hard-core—and largely gay—disco
Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the 1970s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, brass and horns, electric pia ...
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. It was among the half-dozen musical style-setters in the country.
Today, the Trocadero is used as the setting for the haunted house at the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department's Scaregrove Halloween Festival, and the seasonal Stern Grove Music Festival.
See also
*Trocadero (disambiguation) Trocadero may refer to:
* Trocadéro, an area of Paris, France
Buildings
* Palais du Trocadéro, built for the 1878 World's Fair in Paris, France
* Trocadero, Birmingham, a pub in England
* Trocadero (Los Angeles), a 1930s ballroom and a modern ...
, consequently, Trocadero is the name of several restaurants and clubs throughout the world
References
External links
SFmuseum.org: Trocadero and the Stern Grove
{{Authority control Restaurants in San Francisco Sunset District, San Francisco Drinking establishments in the San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants established in 1892 1892 establishments in California 1930s disestablishments in California Defunct restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area San Francisco Designated Landmarks