Saving the world one historic building at a time.
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The David Hewes building at 6th and Market. Built in 1908, it was remodeled in the 1960s. But much of the original building still lurks beneath the modern skin.
The coded wording of a 1907 advertisement from an SF doctor. Translation: I can treat the venereal disease you caught while cheating on your wife.
Buildings that hide in plain sight: the former Telephone Exchange building at 871 Page Street, originally designed in an intriguing architectural blend of Egyptian Revival and Italian Renaissance Revival influences.
I may have posted this before, but the corner entries on the old Mission Savings Bank at 16th and Valencia were intentionally designed to replicate the entrance to Mission Dolores.
Northeast corner of 16th and Mission, 1947. Today this is the BART station next to the decrepit Walgreens. The old signage here is fabulous and shames modern yawnage.
1913 Sanborn insurance map of Commercial Street one block north of Montgomery. All the buildings in yellow are labeled "F.B." That stands for "Female Boarding," which is a polite way of saying brothel. For the workers of the financial district, vice thrived on convenience.
San Francisco's original "Super Skinny" at 10 Geary. Except it's not what it seems. The building is L-shaped and wraps around the corner building so that it also faces Kearny Street, where it is twice as wide. Designed by architect Herman Barth and built in 1907-1908.
SF_Historian retweeted
Yesterday, a chapter closed in transit history when the last Muni "Breda" departed.
Now, it's up to all of us to tell their story. Muni #1534, the last Breda to ever run, will be preserved at our museum. Help us raise $2,000 more to save history!
See: wrm.org/fundraising-campaign…
A gentle reminder that the term "Victorian" for architecture primarily relates to the reign of Queen Victoria, who died in 1901. Using it for a 1917 building that has been greatly altered is off the mark.
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If you enjoy historic neon signs this is a great story.
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A terrible precedent for San Francisco. There are more than 200,000 parcels in SF and only 320 are landmarks.
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SF_Historian retweeted
Tech is kind of funny because if you’re wildly successful, the logical end-state of your career is that you start a podcast, maybe launch a tequila brand, and dabble in some angel investing.
And if you’re unsuccessful, you start a podcast, maybe launch a tequila brand, and dabble in some angel investing.
Over the last 10 years, there has been no shortage of items used as evidence that "San Francisco is over." But Toronado becoming the vehicle for a cryptocurrency may indeed be a sign of the End Times.
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Many a barleywine did I hoist in that space.
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