The Avalon Ballroom was a music venue in the Polk Gulch neighborhood of San Francisco, California, at 1244 Sutter Street. The space is known as the location of many concerts of the counterculture movement, from around 1966 to 1969. It also had a reopening 34 years later, from 2003 to 2005.
The building in 2022
The Mantra-Rock Dance poster
Alfred Henry Jacobs was an American architect. He designed theaters, hotels, residential, and religious buildings, primarily working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Three of the buildings he designed are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. He also worked as a watercolorist.
Curran Theatre, 445 Geary Street
Hotel Spero (formerly the Hotel Californian), 403 Taylor Street, entry
Former Grabhorn Press building, 1337 Sutter Street
Herald Hotel, 308 Eddy Street