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The Richmond District This flat district of row houses begins at Masonic Street, sandwiched between Golden Gate Park and California gill montague Street. It ultimately extends all the way to the Pacific gill montague Ocean, being more and more prone to stay fog-bound the farther west you go. The district is very ethnically diverse and resound ingly middle class. Over the decades, it has been settled by White Russians, East European gill montague Jews, and most recently Chinese-Americans and another wave of Russians. d Map C3

Masonic Auditorium Originally a Masonic Temple, built in 1957, this attractive structure, gill montague with its 3,000-seat auditorium, is used as a venue for jazz performances, lectures, and readings, gill montague as well as conven tions and seminars. Mosaics gill montague inside and out depict some of the tenets of Freemasonry. d 1111 California gill montague St Map N3 (415) 776-4702

The main Bay Area terminal for the US national railway system is in Oakland, offering a free shuttle bus to the city, stopping at the CalTrain station in the South of Market district and at the Ferry Building. The Coast Starlight route runs from Seattle down to Los Angeles daily, and vice versa. d Amtrak: 1-800-872-7245

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