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Union Square around the turn of the 20th century The square in 1968, as seen from the St. Francis Hotel. Union Square was originally a large sand dune, and the square was later set aside to be made into a public park in 1850. Union Square got its name from the pro-Union rallies held there on the eve of the Civil War.
October 10, 1975 (Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, 2905 Hyde Street: Fisherman's Wharf: Flat-bottomed scow schooner built in 1891 to haul goods on and around San Francisco Bay and river delta areas.
San Francisco store at 50 Grant Avenue, 1912 to 1948 San Francisco store on Union Square, 1948 to 1994 Former I. Magnin store in Oakland, California. In the early 1870s, Dutch-born Mary Ann Magnin and her husband Isaac Magnin left England and settled in San Francisco. Mary Ann opened a shop in 1876 selling lotions and high-end clothing for infants.
The spate of store closures near Union Square, a tourist destination and the heart of San Francisco's shopping core, has concerned business leaders and economists alike.
Painted Ladies in the Lower Haight, San Francisco, California. During World War I and World War II many of these houses were painted battleship gray with war-surplus Navy paint. [citation needed] Another sixteen thousand were demolished. Many others had the Victorian décor stripped off or covered with tarpaper, brick, stucco, or aluminum siding.
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.
The high-end retailer, founded in San Francisco in 1861 and born out of the famed California gold rush, has only one physical location, which is one block from the city’s Union Square.
In the late 1990s Macy's began a multi-year project to rehabilitate the entire complex, remodeling of the 1929/1948 building and the Men's Store; expanding into the upper floors of the Magnin's building, and razing and replacing the two out-of-date buildings on Geary Street facing Union Square (on the Brickell and Dohrmann's sites), giving the ...