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Lost department stores of San Francisco /
- Title
- Lost department stores of San Francisco / Anne Evers Hitz ; foreword by Leah Garchik, former columnist, San Francisco Chronicle.
- Author
- Evers Hitz, Anne,
- Publication
- Charleston, SC : The History Press, [2020]
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- Additional Authors
- Garchik, Leah,
- Description
- 188 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm
- 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 defined good taste, the City of Paris satisfied desires for anything French and edgy, youth-oriented Joseph Magnin ensnared the younger shoppers with the latest trends. Join author Anne Evers Hitz as she looks back at the colorful personalities that created six major stores and defined shopping in San Francisco"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- City of Paris, 1850-1972: "it may rock but never sinks" -- The White House, 1854-1965: Raphael Weill, San Francisco's merchant prince -- Gump's, 1861-2018: "good taste costs no more" -- I. Magnin & Co., 1876-1994: "Magninique!" -- Emporium, 1896-1996: "California's largest, America's grandest, store" -- Joseph Magnin, 1913-1984: "quality is remembered long after price is forgotten."
- ISBN
- 9781467140713
- 1467140716
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library