The Bill Graham Menorah, which is 25 feet tall and made of mahogany, was built and first lit in 1975 with the funding of Graham, the famous concert promoter.
A new candle on the menorah will be lit on each of the eight days of Hanukkah, and on Sunday the city will celebrate "Bill Graham Menorah Day" with a full-day festival of arts and crafts at Union Square.
In 1993, two years after Graham died in a helicopter crash, then-Mayor Frank Jordan declared that the first Sunday of every Hanukkah would be Bill Graham Menorah Day in San Francisco.