Cesar_Chavez_Street
Cesar Chavez Street
United States street in San Francisco
Cesar Chavez Street (formerly Army Street) [3] is an east–west street in San Francisco, California, United States. The street was renamed in 1995 in honor of American labor leader and Latino American civil rights activist, Cesar Chavez.[4][5] It was widened in the middle of the 20th century to serve as a thoroughfare between the 101 and 280 freeways to the unbuilt Mission Freeway.[6][7]
It starts at Pier 80 in the Bayview neighborhood and ends at Douglass Street in the Noe Valley neighborhood.[8][9] The intersection of Chavez and Mission is the heart of the micro-neighborhood locally known as "La Lengua."[10]
The chase scene from the 1968 Steve McQueen film Bullitt started on what was then Army Street.[11][12][13]