San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center Art from 1932 to 1994. In 1980 the new Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall opened, on a site on Van Ness across the sidestreet from the Opera House, as part of the SFWMPAC complex. The SFWMPAC has historical significance. On June 26, 1945, the United Nations Charter was signed in the Veterans Building's Herbst Theatre by the group of 50 founding nations, following the two-month-long United Nations conference in the Opera House. In 1951, the Peace Treaty with Japan (commonly called "Treaty of San Francisco"), formally ending World War II hostilities with Japan, was signed in the Opera House. The
San Francisco in the 1970s the remaining 15 people from the island, forcibly ending a 19-month occupation. In 1970, Alex de Renzy of San Francisco produced a documentary, "Pornography in Denmark: A New Approach", about the red light district of Copenhagen. The film, which grossed $2 million on a $15,000 budget, resulted in a well-documented court case, in which the judge ruled that it was "in keeping with the Supreme Court edict that draws the line between what constitutes free speech and what constitutes obscenity." As a result, some open-minded San Franciscans became filmmakers and porn merchants, with the likes of the Mitchell brothers and