Home Telephone: Difference between revisions
(categories and links) |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 2: | Line 2: | ||
'''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. | ||
| Line 8: | Line 10: | ||
'''The Pacific Bell building 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]].''' | '''The Pacific Bell building 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'' | |||
Revision as of 21:58, 15 August 2008
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.
The Pacific Bell building 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