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A numismatic themed building in downtown SF

LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,723 ✭✭✭✭✭
So I am downtown in SF this week for training, at lunch I have been hiking the city streets rather than chowing down, and what should appear at Market and Kerney?

I find it difficult to believe that some building designer didn't know he was using Longacre's and St. Gauden's designs when these were put in stone.

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  • Very cool post, thanks! I've never seen that!



    edit -- here's an old picture of the building Savings Union Bank
  • Very cool! I'd like to see it in person
  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,723 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Very cool post, thanks! I've never seen that! edit -- here's an old picture of the building Savings Union Bank >>

    Looks like that pic was taken around my 3rd or 4th birthday. image
  • Most likely that building was built right after the 1906 earthquake and fire.

    At the time, a bank would have been an obvious place to represent some notable designs found on America's gold coinage.

    It would be interesting for someone to go to the county records dept. and find out when that building was built, and who the architect was.

    Perhaps someone has a way to contact Richard Kelly and Nancy Oliver. They would certainly be able to find out the story.

    It gives definition to "high relief" being at the top of the building.
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,507 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's only plagiarism if its on paper, not written in stone image... right ?
  • Wow


    I want that building......lol


    Al
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,723 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here is a link to some information about the building.

    It was built in 1910. Designed by Walter Danforth Bliss and William Baker Faville.

    Oh, also this is a bump for the morning crowd.

    Here are some more pictures of SF if you're interested.


    Parrots from Telegraph hill - these parrots live and breed here in the city. They apparently got free many years ago and now live happily.
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    Telgraph hill and Coit Tower - Coit Tower was built as a sign of appreciation to the firemen that helped save parts of the city after the 1906 quake.
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    View of Alcatraz from the base of Coit Tower
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    View of the Golden Gate Bridge from the base of Coit Tower
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    Treasure Island from the Base of Coit Tower
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    This are examples of the steep hills I had to walk up to get these pics
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    Here is the fun stuff
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  • er uh, at which of these places was your training being held?
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,723 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>er uh, at which of these places was your training being held? >>

    Now don't ask personal questions image

    Actually, I'm in training for Network Appliance Filer fundamentals training. I gotta get certified and this is my first step. But the girly places are where we practice the labs.image
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  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Go to the Palace of Fine Arts! image
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  • blu62vetteblu62vette Posts: 11,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Go to Swans's Oyster Bar and get the combo salad. Insane. Ovoid the lunch hour..... and they close midday.
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  • direwolf1972direwolf1972 Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭
    LanLord

    Great tagline. That has been my theory for years when I would rather not see someone again.

    I'll see your bunny with a pancake on his head and raise you a Siamese cat with a miniature pumpkin on his head.

    You wouldn't believe how long it took to get him to sit still for this.


  • NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 10,997 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great pics!
  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    Great pics!
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  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,253 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The 1937 "New Mint" also has circular sculptures of old US coins on the outside of the building.

    Probably would need a telephoto lens to photograph them.

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  • Aegis3Aegis3 Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The 1937 "New Mint" also has circular sculptures of old US coins on the outside of the building.

    Probably would need a telephoto lens to photograph them. >>



    Some of them are identifiable w Google maps' Streetview.
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