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Insurance
San Francisco is the insurance center of the West, and Calif- ornia headquarters of about 57 per cent of the insurance organiza- · tions authorized to transact business in California. Represented agents and brokers, offering all classes of business, including the major lines, such as life, auto, disability, liability, health, fire, marine, workmen's compensation, title, fidelity, security, burglary and theft and extended coverage. The industry employs 21,500 per- sons with annual payrolls of about $104,632,000. In addition, San Francisco is the headquarters of some 19 insurance associations, including such promient names as Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific, Pacific Fire Rating Bureau, and Insurance Brokers Exchange of California.
Direct premiums written by all insurance groups in California amounted to $3,318,244,497 in 1960, or 9.1 per cent above the pre- vious year. Direct claims and benefits paid, $1,739,914,333, were up 8 per cent. Life insurance in force totaled $39,700,000,000 in California in 1957, up 14.4 per cent over 1956.
DIRECT PREMIUMS WRITTEN AND LOSSES PAID, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, 1960 (In Millions of dollars)
Direct
Major Classes
Premiums Written
$1,078,773,305
$542,930,922
Liability .. .
625,319,864
328,361,579
Automobile, Physical Damage.
252,779,901
125,594,883
Workmen's Compensation .
264,181,457
169,905,269
Fire and Extended Coverage
153,195,169
66,267,237
Hospital Service
97,595,517
87,669,263
Marine
66,791,508
34,486,714
PARKS AND RECREATION
Generously provided and well distributed are 127 public recre- ation and park units covering 4,043 acres. The areas in the city ac- count for about one-eight of the available land area.
About 80 playgrounds and recreation centers are individually supervised. Included in these facilities are outdoor and indoor swimming pools, tennis courts, regulation baseball and softball diamonds, golf courses, putting greens, bowling greens, yacht har- bor, and a family mountain camp (200 acres, approximately 180 miles from San Francisco at elevation 4,500 feet).
Golden Gate Park, notably one of the finest parks in the world, comprising 1,017 acres with many thousand different kinds of trees, shrubs and plants, contains an aquarium, a museum, the Morrison Planetarium, the California Academy of Sciences, the Japanese Tea Garden, and many unusual attractions. The Fleishhacker Playfield, fronting on the Pacific Ocean, contains one of the largest outdoor swimming pools in the world, and the San Francisco Zoological Gardens are close by.
SOCIAL FEATURES
San Francisco, because of its various ethnic groups, has become a cosmopolitan city, which it was at a very young age in its history. Today its flavor has remained universal; its neighborhoods, variety of restaurants, foreign-language newspapers, street names, arts and craft shops, book stores, and even its schools, are clues to the Old World-both East and West-and the traditions of great cultures of the past.
Chinatown, of course, is famed as the largest Chinese settlement existing outside of Asia itself. The North Beach section is popu- lated by Italians of all varieties, the Mission District by Irish in- termixed with Spanish, Mexicans, and Anglo-Saxons. Many oth- er nationality groups, including the Russians, Germans, French, Greeks, Armenians, Syrians, Turks, and Canadians, among them, came to settle in San Francisco. The Japanese, primary link to the destiny of the Pacific Coast in its ties with the Far East, are centered around Post and Buchanan streets.
The city has long been a center for the performing and design arts. Nearly 100 art galleries and over ten "Little Theatre" groups are located here.
Art Galleries-Three major public art galleries and several semi-public galleries offer exhibits and collections of national and international fame.
Museums and Art Galleries:
California Palace of the Legion of Honor
De Young Memorial Museum
San Francisco Museum of Art
Pioneer Hall
Josephine Randall Junior Museum
San Francisco Maritime Museum
History Room of the Wells Fargo Bank
California State Division of Mines -- Geology Museum
Direct Claims and Benefits Paid
Life Disability and Health
525,521,714
412,647,291
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Morrison Planetarium Mid-summer Music Festival San Francisco Symphony and Pop Concerts Band Concerts-Golden Gate Park Civic Light Opera Association Series San Francisco Opera, and Spring Opera
Library-The main public library is located in the Civic Cen- ter. There are 26 branches (one for business), and one bookmo- bile. This system has over 840,000 volumes. In addition to the public libraries, there are nearly 100 private and special libraries, including technical and institutional. There are also numerous cir- culating libraries.
Annual Events --
Grand National Livestock Exposition, Horse Show and Rodeo San Francisco International Film Festival
Chinese New Year's Celebration Chinese "Double Ten" Parade and Celebration Columbus Day Celebration Shrine East-West Football Game Hearst Regatta-Sailing Far Western Swimming and Diving Championships
National Collegiate Athletic Association Regional Basketball Tourney
Golden Gloves Boxing Tourney Ice Follies San Francisco Flower Show
San Francisco Home Show Golden West Antique Show Golden Gate Kennel Club Dog Show Golden West Cat Show
Bay Area Science Fair Fisherman's Fiesta North Beach Street Fair and Art Show Maiden Lane Festival Union Square Fashion Show London Week
Spectator Sports-
Baseball: San Francisco Giants
Football: San Francisco '49ers, Oakland Raiders, and coll- eges
Hockey: San Francisco Seals
Basketball: San Francisco Warriors, University of San Fran- cisco, San Francisco State College, University of Califor- nia, Stanford University. Horse Racing (San Bruno, San Mateo, and El Cerrito) Soccer
Polo Yacht Races Roller Derby
Participant Sports-
Tennis Golf Swimming Fishing, Deep Sea Sailing Skating-Ice and Roller Hiking
HISTORY Discovery
San Francisco owes its discovery and much of its history to the daring and adventure-loving early Portugese, English and Span- ish explorers. The romance of those early days clings to the city and lends charm to its atmosphere even today.
Though San Francisco's heritage is rightly credited to the Span- ish, more than two centuries before Portola's arrival, Juan Rod- rigues Cabrillo in 1542 discovered the Farallon Islands (now a part of San Francisco); next Sir Francis Drake, famed English explor- er, passed by the Golden Gate and in 1579 discovered Drake's Bay, a few miles north of San Francisco, where the first church service in the English language on the Pacific Coast was held.
In 1769, Don Gaspar de Portola and his little band of adven- turers were the first to glimpse the bay from the nearby hills on the south. Six years later the ship "San Carlos," in command of Don Juan Manuel Ayala, sailed through the Golden Gate to cast the first anchor in the bay. More than a century before, in 1603, Viz- caino visited what is now the Gulf of the Farallons and mapped it as Bahia de Puerto de San Francisco. This is the first time the name San Francisco appeared on record in connection with the vi- cinity of San Francisco.
Early Beginnings
The settlement of what is now San Francisco was just being founded by the Spaniards when the Liberty Bell pealed the birth of our nation. First Spaniards, then Russians, then Americans came and lived to enjoy life and to rule.
The site for the Presidio of San Francisco was selected on March 28, 1776 by Colonel Juan Bautista de Anza, and on March 29, the site for the mission, Mission San Francisco De Asia (Do- lores)-a combination of Mission, Morrish and Corinthian archi- tecture -- was dedicated on Oct. 3, 1776, the Presidio having been dedicated the previous Sept. 17. While from the beginning the mis - sion was called San Francisco, the settlement at the cove under Telegraph Hill was known as Yerba Buena.
For many centuries, history records, traders sought to reach the Orient through a western route. San Francisco was the west- erly outpost in the days of sailing vessels. Growing in stature, the city has become one of the world's great distribution centers.
First Elections
Democratic self-government of the bureaucratic sort decreed by the Mexican Republic came to Yerba Buena (later named San Francisco) before the town itself arrived. Citizens of the partido (civil district) of San Francisco, on Governor Jose Figueroa's or- ders, assembled at the Presidio on Dec. 7, 1834, to choose electors for the Ayuntamiento (district council). On the following Sunday, Don Francisco de Haro was elected to the district council as Alcalde for the projected pueblo of Yerba Buena.
Naming of the City
The village of Yerba Buena, which in 1847 was to be rechris- tened with the name of San Francisco, in 1835 was still an insignif- icant outpost frequented by roving seafarers and was little more than a waste of sand and chaparral, sloping down to a beach and small lagoon which has long since beenfilled in and is now cover- edby massive commercial structures. El Paraje de Yerba Buena (the Little Valley of the Good Herb) derived its name in the begin- ning because of the aromatic vine found in the underbrush there.
The Bay
In 1835, the Bay was declared a port of entry by Governor Pablo Vicente de Sola. He appointed as captain of the Port of San Fran- cisco, William Antonio Richardson, a young master mariner who had deserted the British whaler "Orion" in 1822 and set up the first "house" in Yerba Buena Cove, made up of some redwood poles over which was stretched a ship's sail.
During 1836, the Port of San Francisco became an important trading post. On July 1, 1836, Jacob Primer Leese, Ohio-born, partner in a Monterey mercantile firm, arrived by the barque "Don Quixote" from Monterey and by July 4 had thrown up a frame house 25 by 60 feet, the first "real" house to be built-part dwelling and part warehouse. He then summoned all the leading Mexican fami- lies and other prominent persons to an Independence Day celebra- tion which lasted two days and a night. During the celebration the Stars and Stripes were raised beside the Mexican flag for the first time in San Francisco.
First Survey
In the autumn of 1839, Jacques Vioget, a versatile Swiss of the Peruvian brig "Delmira," was commissioned by Alcalde de Haro. to make the first land survey of Yerba Buena. By 1841 thirty fam- ilies comprised the village population. During the next five years some of the prominent early settlers shifted to other localities in the Bay Area. At the same time, Yerba Buena, outrivaled by the port of Honolulu, drifted back into obscurity.
"The Portsmouth"
Then, on July 9, 1846, the "U. S. S. Portsmouth" quietly drop- ped anchor in Yerba Buena Cove, and Capt. John B. Montgomery and 70 sailors and marines came ashore and ran up the Stars and Stripes on Mexico's flagpole atop the adobe Custom House near the Plaza, as the "Portsmouth" gave a 21-gun salute. Thus passed the rule of the village of Yerba Buena from Spanish to American. On Aug. 6, 1846, Captain Montgomery appointed Lieut. Washington Allen Bartlett as the first Alcalde of Yerba Buena under the Ameri- can flag. Bartlett was confirmed by public vote on Sept. 15. His first important decree ordered the revision of Vioget's survey, which had served to locate building lots since 1839. His civil en- gineer, Jasper O'Farrell, in making the survey, discovered in 1847 that streets as laid out in the early survey intersected at 22 degrees from a right angle. Correction of this error, known as "O'Far- rell's Swing," was made promptly.
A Reception Center Since Gold Days
When gold was discovered on Jan. 24, 1848, in Sutter's millrace on the American River, and the evidence reached San Francisco's nearly 900 inhabitants, the first gold rush, led by Sam Brannan, pub- lishers of the town's newspaper, "The Star," left only seven in- habitants behind. As the news spread around the world and ships came streaming into the harbor, a year later found over 6,000 min- ers at the diggins, and San Francisco again was a cantonment of tents with a population reported at 2,000 excited transients.
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VANS PICKUPS STATION WAGONS
PORSCHE
" ALL IT SHARES WITH OTHER CARS IS THE ROAD"
COUPES CABRIOLETS
Reynold C. Johnson Co.
PORSCHE
SALES 1600 Van Ness Ave.,
Phone PRospect 6-0880
SERVICE-PARTS 1604 Jackson St.
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ADVERTISING - DISPLAY
SANFORD S EXHIBITS
WILLIAM SANFORD, Inc.
657 HARRISON ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. TEL. EXbrook 7-0845
ADVERTISING - OUTDOOR
OUTDOOR
ADVERTISING
ESTABLISHED 1901
FOSTER and KLEISER
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PHONE WEst 1-6600
EDDY AT PIERCE STREETS
SAN FRANCISCO
AIRCRAFT - MISSILE SUPPLIES
AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY CO. WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS
HARDWARE - Aircraft, Missile, Industrial FITTINGS - "AN" Flared, "MS" Flareless, Industrial O-RINGS & GASKETS - TEFLON, NYLON, KEL-F SPECIALTY FASTENERS
363 FELL ST.
SAN FRANCISCO 2
MArket 1-8261
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APPLIANCES - ELECTRICAL
L & H ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE AND REPAIRS
SALES AND SERVICE ALL TYPES OF ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES
1849 DIVISADERO
PHONE JOrdan 7-5483
ART GALLERIES
MAXWELL GALLERIES, LTD. EST. 1940
Fine Paintings . Appraisals . Restoring . Custom Framing · Objects D'Art - VISITORS WELCOME
551 SUTTER STREET
TELEPHONE GArfield 1-5193
When You Want to Know:
--- where a person lives. -what his occupation is.
-who lives at a certain num- ber on a street. -where a street is located. -the correct spelling of a name.
-the officers of a corporation.
-the partners in a firm.
-the solution to any of scores of problems that pop up unexpectedly to annoy and baffle you.
-you can quickly find the answer in the City Directory
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ASSOCIATIONS
BER
....
Business Heart
SAN F
of San Francisco
OF COMMERCE
1960
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IDED
SAN FRANCISCO EXECUTIVE HEADQUARTERS CITY
WORLD BUSINESS CENTER- GATEWAY TO THE ORIENT
GEOGRAPHIC HUB OF THE RICH WESTERN MARKET
· WHOLESALE AND RETAIL trade center for over 4 million persons · HEAD OFFICE locale for national and international businesses
· EXCITING NEW office spaces and executive apartments (Recently completed or under construction)
· AN IDEAL CITY for your headquarters offices
Excellent transportation facilities, all professional and tech- nical services available - a compact area supported by a thriving and diverse economy.
YOUR INQUIRY IS INVITED
SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 333 PINE STREET
SAN FRANCISCO, 4
EX 2-4511
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AUTOMOBILE
VOLKSWAGEN
"UNEQUALED CUSTOMER LOYALTY"
SEDANS SUNROOFS CONVERTIBLES KARMAN GHIA
VANS PICKUPS STATION WAGONS
PORSCHE
" ALL IT SHARES WITH OTHER CARS IS THE ROAD"
COUPES CABRIOLETS
Reynold C. Johnson Co.
PORSCHE
SALES 1600 Van Ness Ave.,
Phone PRospect 6-0880
SERVICE-PARTS 1604 Jackson St.
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AUTOMOBILE
C. M. MURPHY OLDSMOBILE
F85 - Jet Fire - 88 - Super 88 - Star Fire - 98 Safety Tested Used Cars
SALES -
SERVICE -
PARTS
"The Bay Areas Fastest Growing Dealer"
3950 19th Ave. at Junipero Serra Blvd. Tel. JUniper 5-9561
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AUTOMOBILE
Van Etta Motors
Incorporated
1301 Van Ness Ave. SAN FRANCISCO
LINCOLN CONTINENTAL
MERCURY
METEOR COMET
Largest Stock of Genuine Lincoln and Mercury and Comet Parts In Northern California
TWENTY SIX YEARS OF SERVICE TO SAN FRANCISCO
Tel. ORdway 3-8800
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AUTOMOBILE
SCOTTS
VAN NESS CHRYSLER-PLYMOUTH Inc.
See Them All At NORTHERN CALIFORNIA'S LARGEST VOLUME DEALER.
The finest in Service Factory Trained Mechanics
CHRYSLER
IMPERIAL
PLYMOUTH
Top Quality Used Cars
VALIANT
Scott's Corner
C
ELLIS
VAN NESS
PRospect 5-0444
901 Van Ness Ave. at Ellis San Francisco
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AUTOMOBILE
BONDED Stanway MOTORS
Choose from 600 Cars - 54's to 1962's NEW AND USED CARS - TOP CASH FOR CLEAN CARS
5 Day Free Trial Exchange Privileges Free One Year or 12,000 Mile Guarantee
790 Van Ness Ave., Corner of Eddy
Phone TUxedo 5-6267
VAN NESS OLDSMOBILE
NEW and USED CARS
SALES and SERVICE
GENERAL AUTOMOBILE REPAIRS
1700 VAN NESS AVE.
TEL. ORdway 3-9100
CECIL WHITEBONE FORD
NEW and USED CARS SALES and SERVICE
"SAN FRANCISCO LEADING FORD DEALER"
950 VAN NESS AVE.
TEL. PRospect 5-8800
More Goods Are Bought and Sold Through the Classified Business Lists of City Directories, Than Through Any Other Medium!
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AUTOMOBILE RENTING AND LEASING
JACK BARRETT TRUCK & AUTO LEASING, Inc.
Main Office 8th at Harrison St., San Francisco
TRUCK RENTAL 8th & Harrison, S.F.
415 Taylor, S.F. CAR RENTAL
In S. J. Call
UNderhill 1-3888
BRANCHES Oakland, South San Francisco, Burlingame, San Mateo, Redwood City, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, San Jose, Monterey
Car Rental - Truck Rental - Truck Leasing
"Car Rental Reservations Confirmed In Other Cities"
Member Of
Airways Rent-A-Car System National Truck Leasing System
"Free Quotations, Cars or Trucks, Renting, Leasing; no Obligation"
RENT A CAR - ALL MAJOR CREDIT CARDS HONORED
In S. J. Call UNderhill 1-3888
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AUTOMOBILE RENTING AND LEASING
MCALISTER U-drive
LATEST MODELS . .. U.S. MAKES AND IMPORTS
DRIVE AS YOUR OWN, WITHOUT IDENTIFICATION MARKS
FOR BUSINESS - Cadillacs, Standard Makes and Models, Compacts .. One Car or Fleet. FOR FUN - Station Wagons, Sedans, Convertibles, Day, Week, Month, Year at Un- beatable Low Prices.
INSURANCE PROTECTION, FULLY EQUIPPED, Plus POWER STEERING ON MANY MODELS CADILLACS . BUICKS . FORDS . THUNDERBIRDS CHEVROLETS . CORVETTES . CORVAIRS COMETS . FALCONS . VALLIANTS . DODGE DARTS . IMPORT CARS
We Deliver to your Home, Hotel or Business Telephone PRospect 5-2400 1230 Van Ness Ave. Near Sutter, Across from Jack Tar Hotel
TOTAL CAR and EQUIPMENT LEASING
New McAlister Plan is Saving Money for Hundreds of Individuals and Companies
CAR LEASING - Personal or Business Use .. One Car or a Fleet
TOTAL Trans - continental LEASING
MCALISTER HAS A PLAN THAT WILL SAVE YOU TIME, MONEY, WORRY AND HEADACHES. ANY NEW CAR, ANY MAKE OR MODEL, FOR ANY PERIOD FROM SIX MONTHS OR MORE. CHOOSE YOUR OWN ACCESSORIES, COLOR AND TRIM DRIVE AS YOUR OWN, WITHOUT IDENTIFYING MARKS
EQUIPMENT LEASING . of All Types If Your Company Wants to Save Money and Free Capital, This New Plan will Interest You. Information Without Obligation
J. W. MCALISTER CO.
1230 Van Ness Ave.
Telephone PRospect 5-2400
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AUTOMOBILE RENTING AND LEASING
THE HERTZ CORP.
Fleet Car Leasing
Truck Leasing
RENT-A-TRUCK
1480 Folsom
Zone 2, Calif.
Phone MArket 1-2200
AUTOMOBILE REPAIRING
MARTIN TIRE CO.
BODY AND FENDER WORK
GENERAL MOTOR REPAIRS
MOTOR TUNE-UP . TIRES BRAKE SERVICE
Free Estimates
All Work Guaranteed
562 GOLDEN GATE AVE.
TEL. GRaystone 4-6900
EVERY STORE
should appear in the Directory and the Direc- tory should be in Every Store.
Besides its use to the storekeeper, it is a convenience the customer expects.
The store that offers an old Directory, or no Directory at all, fails to show its pa- trons a courtesy they will find elsewhere.
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BANKS
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION GROUP
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA
80 SUTTER STREET
212 WEST SEVENTH STREET
SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES
THE BRITISH BANK OF THE MIDDLE EAST
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION
MERCANTILE BANK LIMITED
HEAD OFFICE: 7 King William Street, London, EC4 OFFICES
Head Office: HONG KONG London Office: 9 Gracechurch Street, London, EC3 OFFICES
HEAD OFFICE:
15 Gracechurch Street, London EC3
OFFICES
ADEN
INDIA
BORNEO
· HONG KONG
FEDERATION OF
BURMA
FEDERATION OF MALAYA
Crater
Bombay
Colony of
Hong Kong Aberdeen
Bukit Terendak
CEYLON
Ipoh
Manama
Baghdad Karradah, Baghdad
Beaufort Jesselton
Kennedy Town
Cameron Highlands
Colombo
Kota Bharu
STATE OF
Rashid Street, Baghdad Basra
Sandakan Tawau
North Point Sai Ying Pun
Kuala Lumpur Malacca
Kandy
Kuantan
Fahad As-Salem Street Kuwait
JORDAN
State of Brunei
San Hui
Muar
HONG KONG Hong Kong
Mentakab Penang
Mubarrakia Street,
Amman Jerusalem
Kuala Belait Seria
Shaukiwan Sheung Shui Taipo Tsuen Wan
Petaling Jaya Sungei Patani Teluk Anson
INDIA
Raub
Bombay
Seremban
Ahmadi Hawalli
LEBANON Beirut Ras Beirut
Colony of Sarawak Kuching Sibu
Chung On St., Tsuen Wan Wanchai
Manila
Howrah
MAURITIUS Port Louis
LIBYA
CAMBODIA
INDIA
SINGAPORE Collyer Quay Orchard Road Tanglin
New Delhi Sowcarpet, Madras
Chittagong Karachi
TRUCIAL STATES Sheikhdom of Abu Dhabi
SAUDI ARABIA Alkhobar Jedda
CHINA
Djakarta
Suapah Road,
Tokyo
Raffles Place Beach Road
Sheikhdom of Dubai Deira Dubai
Tunis
Paris
Osaka
UNITED KINGDOM London
U.S.A.
Rajawongse Road, Bangkok
New York San Francisco
UNITED KINGDOM
VIETNAM
London (Head Office) Pall Mall, London
Affiliated Company The British Bank of the Middle East (Morocco) S.A., Cassablanca, Morocco ASSOCIATED BANK IN IRAN THE BANK OF IRAN AND THE MIDDLE EAST Head Office: Teheran Teheran (Head Office) Khorramshahr.
Affiliated Companies Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, Hong Kong (Trustee) Limited Hongkong & Shanghai Bank (Malaya) Trustee Limited Hongkong & Shanghai Bank (Trustee) Limited, London WAYFOONG FINANCE LIMITED, HONG KONG A Company engaged in hire purchase business within the Colony
Associated Bank THE BANK OF IRAN AND THE MIDDLE EAST Teheran (3) Khorramshahr
Affiliated Companies Mercantile Bank (Executor & Trustee Company) Ltd., London Mercantile Bank (Agency) Private Ltd., Calcutta Mercantila Bank (Trustees) Ltd., Penang
Taiping
SULTANATE OF
St. George's Bay, Beirut Tripoli
BURMA Rangoon
Yuen Long
Madras
PAKISTAN
SHEIKHDOM OF QATAR Doha
Benghazi Tripoli
Phnom-Penh
Bombay Calcutta
JAPAN
Khuing
Colombo
THAILAND
Osaka
SINGAPORE
Bangkok
Semba, Osaka
Shanghai
JAPAN
TUNISIA
FRANCE
Kobe
THAILAND Bangkok
Sheikhdom of Sharjah Sharjah
UNITED KINGDOM
GERMANY
Tokyo
London
Hamburg
Kowloon Mongkok
Ipoh
Pettah, Colombo
Galle
Kuala Lipis
KUWAIT
Jaffna
Kuala Lumpur
Kuwait
Kuala Trengganu
Brunei Town
Sham Shui Po
Penang
PHILIPPINES Iloilo
Delhi
Temerloh
Gandhidham
MUSCAT AND OMAN Muscat
CEYLON
INDONESIA
Bangkok
Yokohama
Saigon
Rangoon
Bentong
SHEIKHDOM OF BAHRAIN
IRAQ
North Borneo
Labuan
Johore Bahru
Kuwait
Calcutta
MALAYA
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BANKS
SAN FRANCISCO NATIONAL BANK
MEMBER
FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
260 CALIFORNIA STREET
YUkon 1-4100
SAN FRANCISCO
THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE
(California) SINCE 1864
COMMERCIAL SAVINGS
344 Pine Street San Francisco 4, Calif.
Cable Address: "Canbank" Phone DOuglas 2-5210
THE SUMITOMO BANK OF CALIFORNIA
Every BANKING
Service
365 California Street
Tel. YUkon 1-3365
BEAUTY SHOPS
15
Aimee'Salon
of Hair Styling
· NATURAL PERMANENTS . INDIVIDUAL STYLING . EXPERT TINTING
You'll Relax In The Pleasant Atmosphere, of Our Attractive Salon
OPEN EVENINGS TO 8 P.M. MONDAY THRU FRIDAY
3727 GEARY BLVD.
(Between 2nd Ave. & Arguello Blvd.)
TEL. Skyline 2-6053
BUILDING MAINTENANCE
WINDOW CLEANING
JANITORIAL SERVICE
STEAM CLEANING
CERVE
JOE
TTO
*
24 HOUR SERVICE
124-126 RUSS STREET Phone UNderhill 3-8840
Institute of Janitorial Maintenance Contractors of the State of California
Manufacturers of COAT OF ARMS CLEANER AND WAX
JANITORIAL SERVICES
Building Maintenance
WINDOW CLEANING
CROSETTI BROS., INC. CONTRACTORS
BUILDING MAINTENANCE CONTRACTORS
Work Expertly, Efficiently and Economically Performed in Banks, Office Buildings, Stores, Factories, Institutions and Properties of Every Description
401 Duboce Ave.
San Francisco 17, Calif. Phone UNderhill 3-3900
Golden State · BUILDING MAINTENANCE COMPANY .
Custom Service MAINTENANCE SPECIALISTS WINDOW CLEANING CONTRACTORS
IN BUSINESS .
Good Housekeeping IS GOOD BUSINESS ·
COMPLETE CUSTOM JANITORIAL SERVICE FOR ALL TYPES OF BUSINESS FLOOR MAINTENANCE SPECIALISTS WINDOW CLEANING CONTRACTORS BUILDING EXTERIORS CLEANED FREE ESTIMATES GIVEN COMPENSATION AND PUBLIC LIABILITY INSURANCE EMPLOYEES INSURED
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