The part of Fillmore Street that runs through the Fillmore neighborhood reflects the neighborhood's diversity: family-owned neighborhood-serving retail mixes with chain stores, jazz clubs, jazz festivals, performers,[1] ethnic restaurants of many varieties, and empty storefronts.

Other ties to the neighborhood's past remain as well; for example, the building that once housed Jimbo's Bop City[2]—a nightclub frequented by noted jazz musicians of the 1940s and 1950s—was moved during redevelopment to Fillmore Street, where it now houses an Afrocentric bookstore, Marcus Bookstore.

Triangle is an infamous area, describing 3 corners of the intersection with the bars Balboa Cafe, East Side West, and City Tavern.

The first streetcar to run after the fires ran on Fillmore and several of the city's theaters and department stores relocated to the road following the disaster.

[3] Between 1907 and 1943, several decorative arches lined the street's intersections — these were removed and used as scrap metal for the war effort.