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The sign on the building's roof. The store's history is rooted in the 1849 California Gold Rush.The company was founded by Felix and Emile Verdier in May 1850 [2] when Emile arrived in the San Francisco Harbor on a chartered ship, the Ville de Paris (City of Paris), loaded with silks, laces, fine wines, champagne, and Cognac.
Charles R. McCormick Lumber Company was founded in 1908 by Charles R. McCormick in San Francisco, California. McCormick purchased a mill site in St. Helens, and formed the Helens Mill Company . To feed the mill McCormick's St. Helens Timber Company also purchased 4,000 acres of timber.
Cliff's Variety Store and Hardware is a hardware, home goods, variety, and fabric store located in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco, California since 1936. It has been in business for over 75 years and predates the neighborhood, becoming the first widely recognized gay mecca starting in the 1960s.
American Forest Products Corporation (AFPC) was a Fortune 500 [1] company initially producing wooden boxes and shipping materials but expanding into the timber, sawmill, and lumber industries. The company began in the 1920s and operated under the same leadership until it was sold to the Bendix Corporation in 1969.
Victoria Clayton, née Walker, (born 1947) is a British author. She began writing at her parents' house in Cambridgeshire (after a couple of years living a bohemian lifestyle in London ). When dining one night in London she sat next to Bill McCreadle of publisher Rupert Hart-Davis who agreed to look at her manuscript, and in 1969, when she was ...
V.C. Morris Store, 140 Maiden Lane, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA - Images in the Library of Congress; V. C. Morris gift Shop at "Wright on the Web."; Wright as an educator / Aaron Green and Lloyd Wright - radio program produced by Bruce Rodde for Pacifica Radio, in which "Reese Palley describes how San Francisco hippies volunteered to help reconstruct Wright's V.C. Morris Gift Shop."
Lumber Liquidators is an American retailer of hard-surface flooring including hardwood, laminate, vinyl plank, tile, bamboo and cork, as well as flooring tools and accessories. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on August 11, 2024, [ 3 ] and was able to avoid liquidation 3 months later after a last minute deal to be acquired by ...
Victorian houses in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Approximately 48,000 houses in the Victorian and Edwardian styles were built in San Francisco between 1849 and 1915 (with the change from Victorian to Edwardian occurring on the death of Queen Victoria in 1901). Many were painted in bright colors.