Castro Street, San Francisco
California--Northern picture - This street scene was photographed at a bus stop on Castro Street. The Castro District lies at the foot of San Francisco's Market Street. Formerly a Scandanavian, and later Irish, neighborhood, the Castro became, along with the neighboring Haight Ashbury district, the core of San Francisco's counter-culture in the 1960s. Today, it is the center of San Francisco's gay community.