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He traveled from Congress Poland to San Francisco in the late 1870s, where he held a variety of occupations. He was Jewish and multilingual, [2] speaking languages including Polish, Yiddish, English and Italian. In 1879, a city directory listed him as a barber near Chinatown, San Francisco; by 1880 he had relocated to the Tenderloin. [1]
Stanford ran one of San Francisco's more notorious brothels. [3] San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen wrote "the United Nations was founded at Sally Stanford's whorehouse" because of the number of delegates to the organization's 1945 San Francisco founding conference who were Stanford's customers; [3] many actual, if informal, negotiating sessions took place in the brothel's living room.
He was also a member of the Barbershop Harmony Society, making his first trip to California in 1925 for a quartet competition in San Francisco. [4] [6] After retiring, Mustin moved to Tucson, Arizona. Director William Wyler saw him there in a stage production of Detective Story at the Sombrero Playhouse. [8]
JC Olivera/Getty Images Travis Kelce is ready to host Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity thanks to his fresh haircut from his barber, Patrick Regan. Regan showed a glimpse of Kelce’s new ‘do via ...
This is a list of current and former companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area, broken down by type of business.. Fortune 500 rankings are indicated in parentheses. As of 2020, 38 Fortune 500 companies had headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Barbers in California wearing masks during the epidemic. The Anti-Mask League was an organization formed in San Francisco, California to protest an ordinance which required people in that city to wear masks during the 1918 influenza pandemic. The ordinance it protested lasted less than one month before being repealed.
Joseph Cassey's barber shop advertisement, 1832. Cassey bought and sold real estate and worked as a landlord. His real estate business partner was Robert Purvis. [5] In the 1820s and 1830s, Cassey worked extensively in community service, particularly focused on African American education. He was a member at St. Thomas’ Church on 5th Street.