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Multimedia Gulch

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

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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.123 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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  1. Flynn, Laurie J. (March 2, 1998). "San Francisco Tries to Retain Its 'Multimedia Gulch'". The New York Times. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
  2. "Making sense of Multimedia Gulch". www.sfgate.com. The San Francisco Examiner. October 31, 1999. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
  3. "San Francisco's Multimedia Gulch". www.cnn.com. Fortune Magazine. Archived from the original on April 1, 2023. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
  4. Gabriel, Trip (September 4, 1994). "Gurus of Multimedia Gulch". The New York Times. Retrieved March 25, 2021.