1712–1716 Fillmore Street
3-unit building with a ground-floor store
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1880
Built.
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1893
The building went up as Stick-Eastlake flats on the north side of Post Street between Laguna and Buchanan, before 1893 — it appears on the area's earliest Sanborn map; the architect is unknown.
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April 16, 1910
A permit was issued for a one-storey addition built out into the front setback, to hold a billiard parlour and a barber shop; it stayed until 1978.
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1918
The Nippon Drug Company was trading from the storefront, and stayed through the 1930s and into the early 1940s.
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1942
The Nippon Drug Company and the two men who ran it were gone from the building, the year Japanese Americans were forced into incarceration.
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1950
By 1950 the building belonged to Charles Sullivan, the Black businessman and property owner who also owned the Fillmore Auditorium.
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1950
James "Jimbo" Edwards opened a waffle-and-chicken restaurant in the storefront, with the owner paying his first three months' rent; it became Jimbo's Waffle Shop, and then Jimbo's Bop City.
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1950
About four months after the restaurant opened, the back room became an after-hours jazz club: a bandstand and piano went in, admission was a dollar (free with an instrument), and it was named after New York's Bop City.
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1965
Jimbo's Bop City closed, as rock displaced jazz and redevelopment emptied the surrounding Fillmore; the storefront then became Soko Hardware and later its storeroom.
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1970s
One of the buildings moved to the Victorian Village development at Sutter and Fillmore in the late 1970s — the former Jimbo's Bop City club from 1690 Post Street — and now home to Marcus Books.
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1978
Before moving the building, the Redevelopment Agency tore off the one-storey storefront addition that had stood in the front setback since 1910.
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1978
The building was moved three blocks from Post Street, where the Japantown mall was going up, after the activist Essie Collins of the Western Addition Community Organization petitioned to save it.
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1980
Marcus Books moved into this Victorian-era house in 1980 and stayed for more than three decades, until the owners lost the property to foreclosure in 2013 and the business was evicted the following year. The house had stood at 1690 Post Street, where it held the jazz club Jimbo's Bop City in the 1950s and early 1960s, before being moved here as part of the Victorian Square redevelopment project.
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1980
Julian Richardson and his wife bought the building from the Redevelopment Agency to bring Marcus Books back to the Fillmore.
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Sep 2012
Erect a ground (freestanding) double faced non illuminated new sign.
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Sep 2012
Painted and/or non structural sign.
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Sep 2012
Exterior facade work at book store only, no work in interior, no structural work, install new awning with signage. new benches, planters. new exterior paint at window & door trim.
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2014
Designated a San Francisco landmark in 2014.
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Aug 2014
Install new bathroom from existing closet in one unit. convert (1) bathroom into (2) bathrooms in one unit.remodel kitchen in one unit.
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Feb 2015
T.i. in one unit fillmore street. ada compliance in restroom.
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Jan 2017
Reroofing.
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Dec 2017
Less than 50% repair of front stair case. install five new stringers and new steps and risers. walls and railings to remain. all work in kind. no change to style or size.
Built about 1893 on its original Post Street site, though the assessor gives 1880.
Nearby
- 1637 Fillmore Street Same street
- 1718–1722 Fillmore Street Same street
- 1971–1975 Sutter Street Same block
- 1961–1969 Sutter Street Same block
- 1901–1945 Sutter Street Same block
- 1865–1881 Post Street Around the corner
- 1948 Sutter Street Around the corner
- 1942 Sutter Street Around the corner