Avalon Ballroom

This article is about the Avalon Ballroom (Regency II) on Sutter Street. For The Regency Center (Regency I) next-door on the corner of Sutter Street and Van Ness Avenue, see The Regency Center.
Avalon Ballroom
The building in 2022
Map
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.