Civic Center, San Francisco Civic Center, San Francisco The Civic Center in San Francisco, California, is an area of a few blocks north of the intersection of Market Street and Van Ness Avenue that contains many of the city's largest government and cultural institutions. It has two large plazas (Civic Center Plaza and United Nations Plaza) and a number of buildings in classical architectural style. The Bill Graham Civic Auditorium (formerly the Exposition Auditorium), the United Nations Charter was signed in the War Memorial Veterans Building's Herbst Theatre in 1945, leading to the creation of the United Nations. It is also where the 1951
Media in the San Francisco Bay Area influential weeklies. The dailies were the "San Francisco Call" (later "Call-Bulletin"), the "San Francisco Examiner", the "San Francisco Chronicle" and the Scripps-Howard-owned "Daily News". The weeklies included the "Wasp", the "Argonaut", the "Labor Clarion", the "Coast Seamen's Journal", "Emanu-el", "Liberator" and the "News Letter". Today, several newspapers, covering community, regional, national, and international news, and community-specific papers, catering to niche markets and individual neighborhoods, are in circulation in the San Francisco Bay Area. The major English-language newspapers include the daily "East Bay Times", "San Francisco Chronicle", "San Francisco Examiner", and "San Jose Mercury News". The weekly alternative papers are the