 Cesar Chavez Street south of Potrero Hill | |
| Namesake | Cesar Chavez |
|---|---|
| Length | 3.1 mi (5.0 km)[1] |
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Cesar Chavez Street (formerly Army Street) [3] is an east–west street in San Francisco, California, United States. The street was renamed in 1995 in honor of American labor leader and Latino American civil rights activist, Cesar Chavez.[4][5] It was widened in the middle of the 20th century to serve as a thoroughfare between the 101 and 280 freeways to the unbuilt Mission Freeway.[6][7]
It starts at Pier 80 in the Bayview neighborhood and ends at Douglass Street in the Noe Valley neighborhood.[8][9] The intersection of Chavez and Mission is the heart of the micro-neighborhood locally known as "La Lengua."[10]
The chase scene from the 1968 Steve McQueen film Bullitt started on what was then Army Street.[11][12][13]
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- ^ "A Brief GIF History of Army Street (and Clooney's)". Burrito Justice. December 7, 2012. Retrieved August 18, 2019.
- ^ Bialick, Aaron (January 29, 2014). "Cesar Chavez: A Traffic Sewer Transformed Into a Safer Street". Streetsblog SF.
- ^ Smith, Susie. "Cesar Chavez Street". Critical Sustainabilities. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
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- ^ Paddock, Richard (October 31, 1995). "Chavez Street: a Route to Discord in S.F." L.A. Times. Retrieved July 31, 2019.
- ^ "'La Lengua' is San Francisco's new Mission-Bernal Heights microhood". SF Examiner. April 11, 2011.
- ^ Brebner, Anne; Morrison, John (February 23, 2011). "Aspect Ratio – February 2011". blip.tv. Archived from the original on November 7, 2012. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
- ^ Wojdyla, Ben (January 11, 2008). "Bullitt Chase Sequence Mapped, Proves a Tough Route". Jalopnik. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
- ^ CUT TO THE CHASE / Classic scene in McQueen's 'Bullitt' unreal as ever, Peter Hartlaub, SFGate, 26 October 2003