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c.1874 Watkins Stereoview of Occidental Hotel, San Francisco

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c.1874 Watkins Stereoview of Occidental Hotel, San Francisco
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This item SOLD at 2017 Dec 02 @ 11:32UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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Choice Watkins' Pacific Coast stereoview No. 1735, Occidental Hotel, Montgomery Street Front, S.F. c.1874. Medium contrast. Great shot of the hotel with five wagons/carriages in front. Some soiling. The Occidental Hotel opened in 1861 and was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fire. Theatrical agent and author Edward Peron Hingston described the hotel in 1863: "An air of sumptuous splendor and easeful comfort strikes us immediately as we enter the doors, as being characteristics of the house...The interior fittings are those of a first-class hotel; the bedrooms are airy, the beds soft and large; the salle-a-manger is a spacious hall, with elaborate embellishments and columns of noble proportions. There are breakfast rooms and supper rooms, hot and cold baths for everybody, well-carpeted stairs, elegant drawing rooms for the use of the ladies, pianos of the best manufacture, and lounges and rocking chairs of the most luxurious construction. The attendance is far better than in most English hotels, with none of that bowing and scraping servility among the waiters which constitutes the most offensive form of attention. Our two dollars and a half per day includes attendance." Notable guests included Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Robert Louis Stevenson. (Prag Collection) Date: Location: San Francisco, California HWAC # 54747