Lost Department Stores of San Francisco
$49.81
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
2 March 2020
Summary
In the late nineteenth century, San Francisco’s merchant princes built grand stores for a booming city, each with its own niche. For the eager clientele, a trip downtown meant dressing up—hats, gloves, and stockings required—and going to Blum’s for Coffee Crunch cake or Townsend’s for creamed spinach. The I. Magnin empire catered to a selective upper-class clientele, while middle-class shoppers loved the Emporium department store with its Bargain Basement and Santa for the kids. Gump’s define…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781467140713 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1467140716 |
| Author: | Anne Evers Hitz |
| Publisher: | History Press |
| Imprint: | History Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 2 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 226mm x 152mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Landmarks |
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About The Author
Anne Evers Hitz
Anne Evers Hitz is a fifth-generation San Franciscan and a great-great-granddaughter of one of the Emporium department store’s founders, F.W. Dohrmann. She is the author of Emporium Department Store and San Francisco’s Ferry Building. A graduate of UC-Berkeley, Hitz is a writer, editor and project manager who has had her own communications consulting firm in San Francisco for more than twenty-five years. She is a guide for SF City Guides, a group of local volunteers who give free walking tours of San Francisco.
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