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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.

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The old Wells Fargo building at Grant and Market, and just up Grant, the old Home Telephone Building.

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.

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