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Market Street between 4th and 8th streets has shopping of all kinds, from trendy English shoe stores in the San Francisco Centre to tiny cut-rate electronics shops. A browser's delight, 28 Kaplan's (1055 Market; 415-863-0127) has been selling eclectic U.S. and foreign military surplus plus sporting goods since 1939.

Be sure to check out 29 The Luggage Store (1007 Market; 415-255-5971) and its sister galleries, 30 The Luggage Store Annex (1000 Market) and 31 509 Cultural Center (509 Ellis). They show emerging visual, installation, performing, music and spoken word artists, and also put on an annual street festival. The 509 Cultural Center is in the Tenderloin, a lively neighborhood that's home to Southeast Asian families as well as elderly residents and transients.

32 The Cartoon Art Museum (1017 Market [new location as of fall 2001], 415-227-8666) has 11,000 pieces of original cartoon art and is one of only three similar collections in the United States.

33 McDonald's Bookshop advertises itself as a "dirty, poorly-lit place for books" (48 Turk; 415-673-2235), but this huge emporium of used books, founded in 1926, is the last of its kind in the Tenderloin.

Visit 34 EXIT Theatre and EXIT Stage Left (156 Eddy; 415-673-3847), an intimate theater with cabaret seating that presents independent community art with a penchant for the unexpected and absurdist. The EXIT produces the annual San Francisco Fringe Festival in September, an uncensored marathon of local and international performance.

Beauty, from EXIT Theatre’s San Francisco Fringe Festival

Will Eisner's "The Spirit" at The Cartoon Art Museum