Club Waziema, San Francisco’s finest Ethiopian bar, tells the story of its neighborhood

Summary: Chuck Berry, Billie Holiday, Marvin Gaye. B.B. King, Tina Turner, James Brown. It’s Friday night at Club Waziema, and in a dimly lit room where these legends performed at all-night parties a mere half-century ago, a group of 20-something dudes is playing pool to the sounds of Incubus from a jukebox. Let’s back up. Waziema is a dive bar with hearty Ethiopian food, well-loved red velvet wallpaper, year-round Christmas lights, homey couches and newspaper-covered end tables.