Multimedia Gulch

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Multimedia Gulch was an area of San Francisco, California SoMa district which contained many early personal computer multimedia focused companies in the 1990s. [1] [2] [3] The name was a reference to Silicon Valley which is also in the San Francisco Bay Area. [4]

It was described as "bounded by Market Street to the north, the Embarcadero to the east, Townsend Street to the south and Division Street to the west". [2]

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References

  1. Flynn, Laurie J. (2 March 1998). "San Francisco Tries to Retain Its 'Multimedia Gulch'". The New York Times . Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Making sense of Multimedia Gulch". www.sfgate.com. The San Francisco Examiner. 31 October 1999. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
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