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A Guide to Living and Doing Business in San Francisco
Author | : San Francisco Chamber of Commerce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Cost and standard of living |
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Lost Department Stores of San Francisco
Author | : Anne Evers Hitz |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2020-03-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1439669198 |
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.
How to Do Business with the City and County of San Francisco
Author | : San Francisco (Calif.). Purchasing Department |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Government purchasing |
ISBN | : |
Capital Intentions
Author | : Edith Sparks |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2011-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807868205 |
Late nineteenth-century San Francisco was an ethnically diverse but male-dominated society bustling from a rowdy gold rush, earthquakes, and explosive economic growth. Within this booming marketplace, some women stepped beyond their roles as wives, caregivers, and homemakers to start businesses that combined family concerns with money-making activities. Edith Sparks traces the experiences of these women entrepreneurs, exploring who they were, why they started businesses, how they attracted customers and managed finances, and how they dealt with failure. Using a unique sample of bankruptcy records, credit reports, advertisements, city directories, census reports, and other sources, Sparks argues that women were competitive, economic actors, strategizing how best to capitalize on their skills in the marketplace. Their boardinghouses, restaurants, saloons, beauty shops, laundries, and clothing stores dotted the city's landscape. By the early twentieth century, however, technological advances, new preferences for name-brand goods, and competition from large-scale retailers constricted opportunities for women entrepreneurs at the same time that new opportunities for women with families drew them into other occupations. Sparks's analysis demonstrates that these businesswomen were intimately tied to the fortunes of the city over its first seventy years.