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- During the Great Depression, the employees who worked for Coldwell, Cornwall & Banker in Los Angeles ate lunch at the Globe Coffee Shop, doing their part to pump money into the greatly depressed economy. The cost of their ham sandwich lunch was ten cents each.
- Arthur Banker appeared without warning one day in the Spring Arcade Building and promptly declared that the office certainly didn’t look like a real estate office to him. Walking out, he went down the street to a used furniture store and bought a three-drawer filing cabinet. Soon after that cabinet purchase, the office began tallying up sales.
- Though it is thought that the phoenix on its city seal refers to the 1906 fire, San Francisco actually predates the fire by almost 50 years.
- In 1906, San Francisco was known as the “cool gray city of love.”
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