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'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>''' | |||
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'''The old Wells Fargo building at Grant and Market, and just up Grant, the old Home Telephone Building.''' | '''The old Wells Fargo building at Grant and Market, and just up Grant, the old Home Telephone Building.''' | ||
''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' | |||
Venerable Wells Fargo Bank, having absorbed its one-time rival Crocker Bank in the 1980s, was in turn swallowed in the 1990s by a midwestern bank, but the Norwest Bank took Wells Fargo's name. | Venerable Wells Fargo Bank, having absorbed its one-time rival Crocker Bank in the 1980s, was in turn swallowed in the 1990s by a midwestern bank, but the Norwest Bank took Wells Fargo's name. | ||
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''' | '''This building at 333 Grant Ave. was the Pacific Bell building during the late 1990s, before AT&T rebuilt its empire. It was once the headquarters of the Home Telephone Company, a firm that attempted to compete in the nascent telephone business around 1905 by bribing the SF Board of Supervisors through power broker [[Abe Ruef and the Union Labor Party |Abe Ruef]].''' | ||
''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' | |||
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Latest revision as of 23:56, 1 March 2017
Unfinished History
The old Wells Fargo building at Grant and Market, and just up Grant, the old Home Telephone Building.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
Venerable Wells Fargo Bank, having absorbed its one-time rival Crocker Bank in the 1980s, was in turn swallowed in the 1990s by a midwestern bank, but the Norwest Bank took Wells Fargo's name.
This building at 333 Grant Ave. was the Pacific Bell building during the late 1990s, before AT&T rebuilt its empire. It was once the headquarters of the Home Telephone Company, a firm that attempted to compete in the nascent telephone business around 1905 by bribing the SF Board of Supervisors through power broker Abe Ruef.
Photo: Chris Carlsson