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Gump's is a luxury American home furnishings and home décor retailer, founded in 1861 in San Francisco, California. [2] The company was acquired by the Chachas family in June 2019 and announced that it would be opening a San Francisco location for the holiday season as well as an e-commerce business.
The V. C. Morris Gift Shop is located at 140 Maiden Lane in downtown San Francisco, California, United States, and was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948. The store was used by Wright as a physical prototype , or proof of concept for the circular ramp at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
In June 1983 they combined their two stores under one roof and opened its first combination store, which included art, home furnishing and home accessories in San Francisco, California. On April 10, 2009, the 54-store chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy .
Bartenders at Eddie Rickenbackers fern bar in San Francisco with Tiffany lamps and motorcycle tire on ceiling (c. 2008). One of the first fern bars was the original T.G.I. Friday's on the corner of 63rd Street and First Avenue in a neighborhood on the Upper East Side of New York City, where many young single adults lived at the time.
William Westerfeld, a German-born confectioner, arrived in San Francisco in the 1870s. By the 1880s, he had established a chain of bakeries. He hired local architect Henry Geilfuss [3] [4] to design for his family of six a 28-room mansion with an adjoining rose garden and carriage house. The house was constructed in 1889 at a cost of $9,985 ...
In Search of the Perfect Meal, by Roy Andries de Groot, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1986, ISBN 0-312-41131-6, "The Finest Regional Dish in America", pages 238–245.De Groot was a Dutch-born gourmet and bon vivant who wrote about food and drink for many years after World War II in a variety of magazines and newspapers as well as writing several books.
Finocchio's Club was a former nightclub and bar in operation from 1936 to 1999 in North Beach, San Francisco, California.The club started as a speakeasy called the 201 Club in 1929 located at 406 Stockton Street. [1]
San Francisco Mayor Angelo Joseph Rossi (pictured 1937) spoke at the dedication ceremony for the building on July 31, 1937. [3] The Western Furniture Exchange and Merchandise Mart, also known as the San Francisco Mart, [2] was completed in mid-1937, after about one year of construction, at a cost of about $3 million (equivalent to $61,000,000 ...