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The UC Berkeley student launched the Free Speech Movement on the campus in the late 1960s.

Another of the “Big Four” who struck it super-rich and lived on Nob Hill.

A good place to find cut-rate electronics shops, as well as outlet shops like Old Navy clothing store.

With its decor of glass and chrome and the regulars’ penchant for singing old torch songs, this is a very retro piano bar for an older gay crowd. It’s a magnet for butch guys, drag queens, and straights, too – anyone who likes a good sing-along – or who likes to get up at the mike and embarrass himself.

Originally a Masonic Temple, built in 1957, this attractive structure, with its 3,000-seat auditorium, is used as a venue for jazz performances, lectures, and readings, as well as conventions and seminars. Mosaics inside and out depict some of the tenets of Freemasonry.

Come for the view; stay for the chilled seafood sampler.

Known as the “King of Torts”, the flamboyant Belli was a pivotal figure in fostering today’s litigious society as an innovator in the area of personal injury law. He took on big corporations and controversial clients, including Errol Flynn, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Lana Turner, Mae West, Muhammad Ali, and Jack Ruby. Belli died in 1996 at the age of 88, just a few months after filing for bankruptcy.

Intended as a lively, high-tech, multilevel amusement arcade for adolescents, so far the only thing that seems to have clicked is the superb cinema complex. Here you can see the latest Hollywood blockbusters with full digital sound effects amped up to the highest possible level. Otherwise, the Metreon’s darkened rooms, designed for checking out the latest video games, are largely abandoned by the teens who were supposed to be flocking.