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Eureka Valley is the historic name of the greater Castro district of the city of San Francisco
San Francisco, California

The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
, California
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California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
. The term Eureka Valley describes a larger area, including many residential areas, while "the Castro" denotes mainly the predominantly gay-oriented commercial district on Castro Street and 18th Street.






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Eureka Valley is the historic name of the greater Castro district of the city of San Francisco
San Francisco, California

The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
. The term Eureka Valley describes a larger area, including many residential areas, while "the Castro" denotes mainly the predominantly gay-oriented commercial district on Castro Street and 18th Street. The term Eureka Valley, though, is largely out of use, replaced by "the Castro" as the gay community grew in the area.

From 1910 to 1920, the area was known as "Little Scandinavia" on account of the number of people of Swedish, Norwegian, and Finnish ancestry who lived there. A Finnish bathhouse (Finilla's) dating from this period was located behind the Cafe Flore on Market Street until 1986. The Cove on Castro diner used to be called The Norse Cove. The Scandinavian Seamen's Union was near 15th Street and Market, just around the corner from the Swedish-American Hall which remains in the district. Scandinavian-style "half-timber" construction can still be seen in some of the buildings along Market Street between Castro and Church Streets.

Eureka Valley became a working-class Irish neighborhood in the 1930s and remained so until the mid-1980s and the development of the Castro gay village
Gay village

A gay village is an urban area geographic location with generally recognized boundaries where a large number of lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexuality people live....
.

As a curious note, the Castro Street
Castro Street Station

Castro Street Station is a Muni Metro station at the intersection of Market Street , Castro Street, and 17th Street in The Castro, San Francisco, California district of San Francisco, California....
 Muni Metro
Muni Metro

Muni Metro is a light rail system serving San Francisco, California, operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway , a division of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency ....
 station replaced an older Eureka Street station
Eureka Station

The Eureka Street Station was a streetcar station in San Francisco, California, California from 1918 until 1972. It is located very close to the eastern end of the Twin Peaks Tunnel, in the Eureka Valley neighborhood....
 only a few blocks away, symbolic of the neighborhood shift away from Eureka Street and toward Castro in the late 1970s. The above-ground tracks leading to the old below-ground Eureka Valley station can still be seen on the south side of Market Street just west of the intersection of Castro and Market Streets. Another curious note is that many blocks were built with one home in the center of the block. These homes all have long driveways leading to them.