Real Old Paper

North Beach & Chinatown


See the world from the comfort of your living room with a wall of Real Old Paper finds: vintage travel posters, Dutch Star Wars promotions, Pacific WWII rationing propaganda and advertisements for Italian vermouth brands. But wait, there's more: collectors Jennifer and Andrew England are always excited to show you new acquisitions not yet on the walls.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby North Beach & Chinatown attractions

1. Washington Square

0.19 MILES

Wild parrots, tai chi masters, and nonagenarian churchgoing nonnas (grandmothers) are the local company you'll keep on this lively patch of lawn. This was…

2. Diego Rivera Gallery

0.23 MILES

Diego Rivera's 1931 The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City is a trompe l'oeil fresco within a fresco, showing the artist himself pausing to…

3. San Francisco Art Institute

0.23 MILES

Since the 1870s, SFAI has been at the vanguard of Bay Area art movements – including 1960s Bay Area abstraction, 1970s conceptual art and 1990s new-media…

4. Ina Coolbrith Park

0.27 MILES

On San Francisco's literary scene, all roads eventually lead to Ina Coolbrith. She was California's first poet laureate, editor of Mark Twain, colleague…

5. Macondray Lane

0.28 MILES

The scenic route down from Ina Coolbrith Park – via steep stairs, past gravity-defying wooden cottages – is so charming, it looks like something from a…

6. Vallejo Street Steps

0.28 MILES

Reach staggering heights with spectacular views along this staircase connecting North Beach with Russian Hill – ideal for working off a pasta dinner…

7. Lombard Street

0.31 MILES

You’ve seen the eight switchbacks of Lombard St's 900 block in a thousand photographs. The tourist board has dubbed it ‘the world’s crookedest street,’…

8. Bob Kaufman Alley

0.32 MILES

What's that – your hometown doesn’t have a street named after an African American Catholic-Jewish-voodoo anarchist street poet? Revered in France as the…