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Article: Experience ``real'' Frisco on Union Street
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 23, 1997
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Leave crowded Fisherman's Wharf, Alcatraz, Union Square and the
Embarcadero to camera-carrying tourists. Head west to Cow Hollow on
Union Street to be a San Franciscan for a day. You'll find what the
locals crave: coffee, comfort, nature and style.
More than 13 million people visit San Francisco annually, but only a
handful make it to Union Street. Since most of those are Bay area
residents, the posh Cow Hollow street remains a rare pleasure for
visitors to the peninsular Bay City.
Cow Hollow lies below the wealthy bluffs of Pacific Heights and west
of Van Ness Avenue between Russian Hill and the historic Presidio
military base at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge. As its name
suggests, ...