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The Parker Pen Company is an American manufacturer of luxury writing pens, founded in 1888 [1] by George Safford Parker in Janesville, Wisconsin, United States. In 2011 the Parker factory at Newhaven, East Sussex , England, was closed, and its production transferred to Nantes , France.
In 1924, the Chronicle commissioned a new headquarters at 901 Mission Street on the corner of 5th Street in what is now the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco. It was designed by Charles Peter Weeks and William Peyton Day in the Gothic Revival architecture style, but most of the Gothic Revival detailing was removed in 1968 ...
As of 2020, 38 Fortune 500 companies had headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area. [1] San Francisco-based businesses are not listed here; the subset of San Francisco-based businesses by type is at the list of companies based in San Francisco. This list includes extant businesses formerly located in the Bay Area, which have moved, or been ...
The Chronicle Publishing Company was a print and broadcast media corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California that was in operation from 1865 until 2000. Owned for the whole of its existence by the de Young family, CPC was most notable for owning the namesake San Francisco Chronicle newspaper and KRON-TV, the longtime National Broadcasting Company (NBC) affiliate in the San Francisco ...
San Francisco Call Bulletin; San Francisco Call [6] San Francisco Chronicle; San Francisco Evening Bulletin; San Francisco Examiner; San Francisco Herald; San Francisco Independent; San Francisco Progress (1918–1988) [7] [8] SF Weekly; Shinsekai asahi shinbun (New World Sun, 1932–1941) [1] Shin sekai (New World, 1912–1932) [1] Sinhan ...
In 1888 he founded the Parker Pen Company and the next year he received his first fountain pen patent. By 1908, his factory on Main Street in Janesville was reportedly the largest pen manufacturing facility in the world. Parker eventually became one of the world's premier pen brands, and one of the first brands with a global presence.
Launched on November 3, 1994 as The Gate in the wake of an eleven-day newspaper strike, [4] and renamed SFGate in 1998, the site once served as the digital home of the San Francisco Chronicle. [5] SFGate and the San Francisco Chronicle split into two separate newsrooms in 2019, with independent editorial staff. [6] At the time SFGate split from ...
Jon Carroll (born November 6, 1943) is a retired newspaper columnist, best known for his work for the San Francisco Chronicle [1] from 1982, when he succeeded columnist Charles McCabe, to 2015, when he retired. His column appeared on the back page of the Chronicle ' s Datebook section (the newspaper's entertainment section) Tuesdays through ...