On 01-17-2021 - 10:06, Father Time Wrote: http://www.altamontpress.com/discussion/read.php?1,220337,220359 ------------------------------------------------------- > M. Harris Wrote: > -------------
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> Back before California became Kalifornia. What an intellectually profound comment (original too).
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Back before California became Kalifornia.
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Emporium Stonestown had a little more space on the roof deck and usually had a train ride around the other rides.
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On 01-16-2021 - 19:03, M. Harris Wrote: http://www.altamontpress.com/discussion/read.php?1,220337,220344 ------------------------------------------------------- > Ahh, memories. Weinstock's and t
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Ahh, memories. Weinstock's and the Emporium... visited every year around Christmas by my family. I think it was the E that had the rooftop rides for kids. One year they had a scaled-down Union Pacif
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I grew up going to the Emporium on Market St. While I remember the kiddie rides on the roof at Christmas, I don't have particularly detailed memories of the train ride. (There was a full-sized cable c
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Union Square, I remember it well, on the north side, mid-block was the Fitzhugh building, three story high foyer all in marble, four manually operated elevators (with a call person on the main floor)
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I always had to go to Macy's in SF for Christmas shopping, not to buy much (too expensive; most of our real shopping was at Emporium, where they also had carnival rides on the roof of both the downtow
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