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Place Name
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Barbary Coast
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Place Status (Type)
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coast
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Location
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California, United States, North America
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Latitude
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unknown
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Longitude
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unknown
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Barbary Coast
, waterfront area of San Francisco, Calif., on San
Francisco Bay; extends S from downtown San Francisco. In the years
after the 1849 gold rush, gamblers, gangsters, prostitutes, and
confidence men flourished, and the brothels, saloons, and disreputable
boardinghouses made the Barbary Coast—named after the pirate
coast of N Afr.—notorious throughout the world.
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