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By Anne Evers
The Emporium—"California's biggest, America's Grandest Store"—was a big purchasing vacation spot on San Francisco's marketplace highway for a century, from 1896 to 1996. consumers flocked to the mid-price shop with its attractive dome and bandstand. consumers may perhaps locate something on the Emporium, from jewellery to stoves, and it used to be a gathering position for neighbors to get pleasure from tea whereas hearing the Emporium Orchestra. based because the Emporium and Golden Rule Bazaar, the shop flourished until eventually the disastrous 1906 earthquake. as soon as it reopened in 1908, it ruled purchasing downtown till mid-century. Many San Franciscans keep in mind with nice nostalgia the Christmas Carnival at the roof, whole with slides, a skating rink, and a teach. Santa regularly arrived in grand type with a major parade down marketplace road. After international battle II, the Emporium, which had merged with H.C. Capwell & Co. within the past due Twenties, all started its push and opened department shops during the San Francisco Bay zone. notwithstanding, as festival elevated, the company's monetary state of affairs worsened, and the Emporium identify was once not more in 1996.
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The wise man was practical and planted fruittrees around the shrine, like a man who plants fruit-trees. The cherry-trees are profuse with cherry-blossoms white as cherry-blossoms, and the plum-blossoms are as purple as plum-blossoms. Profuse as blossoms on the t-rees in May. We walk along here as firmly as the sailors of the Dolphin walking on good ground. The silence is unoppressive like the silence in the holy grove of Apollo in Mytilene on Lesbos. It is light as day. It is considered fitting, in honor of Pittacus, to mention his wise maxims.
We walk along here as firmly as the sailors of the Dolphin walking on good ground. The silence is unoppressive like the silence in the holy grove of Apollo in Mytilene on Lesbos. It is light as day. It is considered fitting, in honor of Pittacus, to mention his wise maxims. This is the worship. And also, as one can, to add maxims of his own. So we say, each one as he happens to think of something, "Be attentive of opportunities! Power discovers the man. Whatever you do, do well! Be attentive of opportunities-yes, that bears repeat- 46 In the Grove of Pittacus ing.
This morning I came to another island and it was again peopled by Greeks. We speak a language. Why should I be modest and not blurt out the truth? the strongest of the fairest! It is not to be observed, passing over any one's face a new thought. Is it even permissible to be ashamed of what everybody accepts? Before whom shall I blush? It is crowded stifling hot in this town where all of us are flaming. The sight of my folk in its numbers is more than soul can tolerate. Here is a dark alley, and this looks like a quiet hole in space to slip into and hide.