What a wonderful history of SF jazz of the 1940s to late 50s and early 60s, filled with photos of clubs like the Texas Playhouse and Bop City and the musicians who played in them. The Fillmore District was filled with such clubs, all lost when Geary Street was widened and a misguided Urban Development plan remade the area.

I was seven when my stepfather brought me and my pregnant mom from New Orleans to the Fillmore District of San Francisco--what Elizabeth Pepin and Lewis Watts calls the Harlem of the West. It's all gone now, its worn Victorians nearly all bulldozed, but this book has brought it all back to me, and to my stepfather (I sent him a copy. He spent his teenage years in San Francisco among his uncles and aunts who left the South for jobs in war industries in the West during the 1940s. They settled in More...

Great history of SF!
And great tons photos!!