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The building used to house a sewing factory, owned by Henry Pon Lee, who vacated the premises during the late 1960s. In the early 20th century, the Siberia Club, at 25-27-29 Ross Alley, run by Yee Mee, "king of the Chinatown gamblers" and head of the Hop Sing Tong , [ 13 ] was one of the more notable gaming establishments.
Skechers USA, Inc. is an American multinational footwear and apparel company. Headquartered in Manhattan Beach, California , it was founded in 1992 and is the third largest footwear brand in the United States.
The James C. Flood Mansion is a historic mansion at 1000 California Street, atop Nob Hill in San Francisco, California, USA.Now home of the Pacific-Union Club, it was built in 1886 as the townhouse for James C. Flood, a 19th-century silver baron.
During the early 20th century, "running north from Market Street to the Barbary Coast, Kearny Street was an avenue of honky-tonks and saloons frequented by racetrack tipsters and other shady professionals. On election nights it was the scene of torch-light parades and brass bands", as summarized in the 1940 WPA guide to San Francisco. [6]
[5] [16] The headquarters had only been in Los Angeles for 15 years [5] as they were in San Francisco from the 1970s. [17] Cathay had moved to Greater Los Angeles in 1990. Before the Cathay Pacific USA headquarters opened in the Tiffany Building, the airline identified over twenty employees including eleven new staff from the San Francisco Bay ...
It runs in a north–south direction starting at Market Street in the heart of downtown and dead-ending past Francisco Street in the North Beach district. It resumes at North Point Street and stretches one block to The Embarcadero and the foot of Pier 39. Grant Avenue is primarily a one-way street; automobile traffic can travel only northbound.
88 Kearny Street is a class-A office high-rise on Kearny Street at the southeast intersection with Post Street in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. The 309 ft (94 m), 22- story tower was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill , and its construction was completed in 1986.
450 Sutter Street, also called the Four Fifty Sutter Building, is a twenty-six-floor, 105-meter (344-foot) skyscraper in San Francisco, California, completed in 1929. The tower is known for its " Neo-Mayan " Art Deco design by architect Timothy L. Pflueger . [ 4 ]