Avalon Ballroom

Avalon Ballroom
The building in 2022
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Former namesAvalon Ballroom
Address1268 Sutter St.
LocationSan Francisco, California
Coordinates37°47′16″N 122°25′16″W / 37.78778°N 122.42111°W / 37.78778; -122.42111
Typeballroom
Construction
Built1911
Closed1969

The Avalon Ballroom was a music venue in the Polk Gulch neighborhood of San Francisco, California, at 1244 Sutter Street[1] (or 1268 Sutter,[2] depending on the entrance). 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.

  1. ^ 1923 p.1878 Basch, Jos. Co., 1244 Sutter
  2. ^ R.L. Polk & Co (1923). Crocker-Langley San Francisco city directory. San Francisco Public Library. San Francisco, Cal. : H.S. Crocker Co. p. 1878.