Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-20
EDIFICES,
OLD LANDMARKS,
ALL SWEPT WAY
1SKYSCRAPER AND HOVEL FARE ALIKE
Practically Every Building of Note Is Gone-List
includes Hotels, Department Stores, Restaur-
ants, Government Buildings, Wholesale
Houses, Residences and Retail Stores

lie buildings in the United States said
to have been equaled in architectural
excellence only by the new congress
ional library at Washington. 1t was
destroyed,
Old Landmarks Go
Down In the older business section
were many old landmarks, but they
exist no longer. The Occidental hotel
on Montgomery street, for many years
the headquarters for army officers Wis
iting in San Francisco; the old Lick
house, built by the philanthropist,
James Lick; the old Russ house, also
on Montgomery; the Nevada National
bank block; the Haywards building at
California and Montgomery. modern
structure of ten stories; then to the
eastward the splendid example of the
severe gothic style, the California Ma
tional bank building; the First Ma
tional, the Canadian Bank of Com
merce, the London and San Francisco,
on California; the London, Paris and
American bank and the bank of British
North America on Sansome street, the
large German= American, Savings bank,
also on California-these are a few of
the notable buildings destroyed in the
district
California Hotel
The Californit hotel and theater on
Bush street, near Montgomery; the
Grand opera house on Mission street,
where the Conred grand opera COM
pany had just opened for a series Of
three weeks opera; the Orpheum. the
Columbia, the Alcazar, the Majestic,
the Central and Fischer's were some Of
the playhouses to which pleasure loving
San Francisco was wont to flock.
Apartment Houses
Among the splendid apartment houses
destroyed are: On Geary street.-The
st. Augustine, the Alexandria, the Vic
toria and the Elysium; on Sutter street
The Pleasanton, the Aberdeen, the
Waldeck, the Granada; on Pine street
The Colonial, the Iona Vista, the
Buena Vista; on Ellis-The Dufferin.
the Hamilton, the Ellis, the Royal, the
Hart, the Ascot and the st. Catherine;
on OFarrell-The Eugene, the Knox,
the ST. George, the Ramona, the Al
calde, the Gotham; on Taylor-The Alb
bey; on Eddy-The Abbotsford; on
Turk-The Netherlands; on Polk-The
Savoy; on Bush-The Plymouth.
Famous Restaurants Destroyed
San Francisco was famous for the
excellence of its restaurants. Many of
these were known wherever travellers
discussed good living Among them
were the Pup" and Marschand's on
Stockton street; the Poodle Dog, one
of the most ornate distictive restau-
rant buildings In the United States;
Zinkand's and the Fiesta on Market
street. the famous Palace Grill In the
Palace hotel and scores of bohemian
resorts in the old part of San Fran
cisco. These are no more.
Newspaper Buildings Burn
At the junction of Kearney. Market
and Geary streets stood the three great
newspaper buildings of San Francisco
The Call, the most conspicuous struc-
ture In the city seventeen stories high:
across the Hearst building, the home
of the Examiner, and to the north of
this, on the opposite side of Market
street, the Chronicle, n modern ten
story newspaper and Office building,
with the slxteen-story annex under
course of construction, All were de-
stroyed,
Two blocks north oh kearney street
were the Bulletin and tho Post build
ings. These also are gone.
Big Department stores 90
Among tho mammoth department
stores destroyed are the Emporium,
1ale >, PrageFs, on Market street, on
Kearney street. the White House,
O'Connor 6 Moffats, Newman 6 Levin
son, Roos Bros, Rephaels, the Hub
and many lesser abiishments,
on Geary street are the Davis, the
City Of Paris; samuelson on Post
street; Levi Strauss on sansome street; !;
Wallace's, Nathan. Dohrman & Co.,
and Bullock g. Jones.
The Emporium was the largest and
handsomest store Of It's kind west Of
Chicago.