Polk's San Francisco (San Francisco County, Calif.) city directory, 1973, Part 2

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1953
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 2036


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Pronounced wet and dry seasons are another characteristic of this climate. On the average, 84% of the total annual precipi- tation falls during the five-month period November to March,


leaving but 16% for the remaining seven months of the year. Long-time records of the Weather Bureau reveal that the sun shines in San Francisco during 65 to every 100 possible hours.


GOVERNMENT


San Francisco has a consolidated City and County govern- ment, with legislative powers vested in a board of supervisors of eleven members, five and six being elected every two years for four-year terms. The Mayor, Treasurer, Assessor, City Attor- ney, Public Defender, District Attorney, Sheriff, and Superior and Municipal Court Judges are elected by the people and serve terms of six years. The Chief Administrative Officer is ap- pointed by the Mayor, but thereafter has permanent tenure. The Controller, appointed by the Mayor, subject to confirmation by the Supervisors, also has permanent tenure. The Mayor appoints members of, and supervises, police, fire, civil service, public utilities, park and recreation, welfare, library, city planning, art, housing, parking permit appeals, redevelopment, retirement (in arts) and welfare board commissions, and may remove his ap- pointees except civil service, public utilities, recreation and park, and welfare commissioners, and members of the school board. The Mayor also has power of veto over legislation,


State and Federal Government Offices


San Francisco contains district and regional offices of many branches of the State and Federal Governments. Located here are over 90 major agencies of the State, including top-rank commissions and boards. These and many lesser divisions and branches make a total of about 175 State groups. There are 75 Federal Agencies in San Francisco, including representatives of the Legislative and Judicial branches, Executive departments and independent agencies. The 14 Executive departments include : Agriculture, Air Force, Army, Commerce, Defense, Ilealth, Ed- ucation and Welfare, Interior, Justice, Labor, Navy, Post Office, State Transportation and Treasury, and numerous special agencies related to regional administration of Federal activities.


HISTORY


Discovery


San Francisco owes its discovery and much of its history to the daring and adventure-loving early Portuguese, English and Spanish explorers. The romance of those early days clings to the city and lends charm to its atmosphere even today.


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INTRODUCTION


Though San Francisco's heritage is rightly credited to the Spanish, more than two centuries before Portola's arrival, Juan Rodrigues Cabrillo in 1542 discovered the Farallon Islands (now a part of San Francisco); next, Sir Francis Drake, famed English explorer, 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 ad- venturers 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 de Ayala, sailed through the Golden Gate to cast the first anchor in the bay. More than a century before, in 1602, Vizcaino 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 vicinity 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 this 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 (Dolores) -a combination of Mission, Moorish and Corinthian architecture. While from the beginning the mission 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 westerly outpost in the days of sailing vessels. Growing in stat- ure, the city has become one of the world's great distribution centers.


First Elections


Democratic self-government of the bureaucratic sort de- creed 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 orders, assembled at the Presidio on Dec. 7, 1834 to choose electors for the Ayuntamiento (district council). On the following Sunday, Don Francisco de Harvo was elected to the dis- trict 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 re- christened with the name of San Francisco, in 1835 was still an insignificant 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 been filled in and is now covered by massive commercial structures. El Paraje de Yerba Buena (the Little Valley of the Good Herb) derived its name in the beginning because of the aromatic wild mintvine 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 Francisco, 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 red- wood poles over which was stretched a ship's sail.


During 1836, the Port of San Francisco became an import- ant 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 families and other prominent persons to an Independence Day celebration 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 thir- ty families 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, out- rivaled by the Port of Honolulu, drifted back into obscurity.


"The Portsmouth"


Then, on July 9, 1846, the "U. S. S. Portsmouth" quietly dropped anchor in Yerba Buena Cove, and Capt. John B. Mont- gomery 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 sa- lute. Thus passed the rule of the village of Yerba Buena from Spanish to American. On August 6, 1846, Captain Montgomery appointed Lieut. Washington Allen Bartlett as the first Alcade of Yerba Buena under the American flag. Bartlett was confirmed by public vote on September 15. His first important decree or- dered the revision of Vioget's survey, which had served to locate building lots since 1839. His civil engineer, 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'Farrell'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, publisher of the town's newspaper, "The Star," left only seven inhabitants behind. As the news spread around the world and ships came streaming into the harbor, a year later they found over 6,000 miners 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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SALES . SERVICE . LEASING San Francisco's "Far Out" Chevrolet Dealer! OUR "ZONE LOCATOR" GIVES YOU AN IMMEDIATE SELECTION OF OVER 10,000 AUTOMOBILES AND TRUCKS


3855 GEARY BLVD. AT THIRD AVE.


752-5600


One of the most trusted names in Chevrolet Sales and Service for over 40 years!


" Les Vogel


CHEVROLET


LESLIE LEASING - Leasing All Makes and Models SERVICE DEPARTMENT OPEN DAILY 7:30 A.M. TO 6 P.M.


1640 MISSION ST. SAN FRANCISCO at Chevy Island on Mission Street Phone 861-1702


AUTOMOBILE PARTS


AUTOTORIU


STORE


QUALITY AUTOMOTIVE STORE PARTS & ACCESSORIES AT DISCOUNT PRICES DOMESTIC & FOREIGN PARTS


ACCESSORIES . PARTS . SEAT COVERS . TOP CARRIERS . CAR RADIOS . FLOOR MATS . TRAILER NEEDS SPARK PLUGS · SMOG CONTROL . FILTERS . MIRRORS . POLISHERS · BICYCLES . STEREO TAPE PLAYERS


Complete Selection Of Replacement Parts & Acces. For Volkswagen & Other Foreign Cars, Including · Sprite · Midget . Porsche . Audi . Fiat . Volvo


American ALL BRAND NAMES AUTOLITE - DELCO - AC - GE - TRICO - MONROE - CHAMPION - PUROLATOR


Racing Equipment


FOR ALL YOUR NEEDS CALL 648-2200 "IN THE HEART OF THE MISSION"


2999 Mission - Corner 26th San Francisco


AUTOMOBILE RADIOS


service sales, installation & San Francisco 94123 2106 Lombard Peter's Auto Radio


Peter's Auto Radio 2106 Lombard San Francisco 94123 567-4678


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AUTOMOBILE REPAIRING


AVR


PORSCHE


SERVICE


AND


REPAIRS


Porsche & BMW Service


Albert Von Rekowski Phone 474-0373 1101 Sutter St., 3rd Floor


BMW SERVICE AND REPAIRS


San Francisco 94109


AUTOMOBILE UPHOLSTERY


GENE'S CUSTOM UPHOLSTERY


Automobile · Boats · Airplanes . Convertible Tops · Landau Tops Carpets · Interiors Cleaned Inserts . Panels . Radio And Tapes TEL. 567-6224


1340 Grove St.


San Francisco, Ca. (94117)


BAIL BONDS


BOB MASSEY BAIL BONDS


ONE WHO CARES - 24 HOUR SERVICE


TEL. 864-5010


ACROSS FROM THE HALL OF JUSTICE ON SIDE STREET


17 Broadman Place San Francisco, California (94103)


BANKS


BANCO DO BRASIL S. A.


555 California Street, 94104 Phone (415) 398-4814, Telex: ITT 470029, WUD 340-999


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BANKS


BANK OF TOKYO


Of California


"A Complete


Banking Service"


Phone 981-1200


MAIN OFFICE


64 SUTTER STREET


94120


TRUST DEPARTMENT


54 SUTTER STREET 94120


JAPAN CENTER BRANCH


1675 POST STREET 94115


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BANKS


THE CHARTERED BANK OF LONDON


A FULL SERVICE BANK WITH A FULLY OPERATIONAL INTERNATIONAL BANKING DEPARTMENT!


CABLES: "CHARTABANK"


HEAD OFFICE: 465 California Street, San Francisco, California (94104) Telephone 981-6350


BRANCHES:


614 W. 6th Street, Los Angeles (90017) 22nd & Webster Streets, Oakland (94612)


Phone 213-620-0380 Phone 835-9600


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BANKS


EB C


UNITED CALIFORNIA BANK


Complete Banking Services


San Francisco Main Office-405 Montgomery Street Phone 397-2022


BRANCHES


Haight & Belvedere Phone 397-2022


3431 California Phone 397-2022


100 California Street Phone 397-2022 Fairmont Hotel Phone 397-2022


673 Market Street Phone 397-2022


West Portal Avenue and Ulloa


Phone 397-2022


200 Linden Avenue, South San Francisco Phone 588-1038


1800 Van Ness Avenue Phone 397-2022


490 Brannan Street Phone 397-2022


108 Fox Plaza


Phone 397-2022


2300 Chestnut Street


Phone 397-2022


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BANKS


THE HIBERNIA BANK "Since 1859"


A COMPLETE BANKING SERVICE


Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation


-Phone 431-7000


One Jones Street


San Francisco 94102


OFFICES IN San Mateo - Belmont - San Jose - Campbell - Walnut Creek


Bank of Montreal (California) Complete Banking Service PERSONAL AND COMMERCIAL LOANS SAVINGS, CHECKING, SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOREIGN EXCHANGE, TRAVELERS CHECKS Phone (415) 391-8060


Branch Office 333 California Street


Executive Office 425 California Street


Bank


FIRST WESTERN BANK YOUR FINANCIAL PROBLEM SOLVERS


SAN FRANCISCO, MAIN BRANCH: 201 Montgomery


Tel. 981-5050


FILLMORE BRANCH: 1528 Fillmore


Tel. 981-5050


FISHERMAN'S WHARF BRANCH: 451 Beach


Tel. 981-5050


MISSION BRANCH: 2501 Mission


Tel. 981-5050


PARK PRESIDIO BRANCH: 601 Clement


Tel. 981-5050


POST STREET-MAIDEN LANE BRANCH: 231 Post


Tel. 981-5050


WESTBOROUGH BRANCH: 2288 Westborough Bl.


Tel. 871-7455


WESTLAKE BRANCH: 30 Westlake Ct., Daly City


Tel. 981-5050


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BANKS


YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING SPECIAL


SECURITY PACIFIC BANK Northern California Headquarters


Security Pacific Bank Building, One Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, California 94111 · Phone 445-4000


UNION BANK


COMPLETE BANKING SERVICES


TEL. 445-6000


50 California St.


San Francisco


BEAUTY SHOPS


Goring's House Of Beauty


GREGORIA A. SUPNET, Mgr. & Prop. SPECIALIST IN: · PERMANENTS . EXPERT HAIR CUTTING · TINTING · FROSTING . BLEACHING UP TO DATE WIG CLEANING & STYLING Fancy Hair Styles for Formal Affairs MON. THRU SAT. 9 A.M. - 8 P.M. CLOSED SUNDAYS


For Appointment Call 584-7751


5318 MISSION STREET SAN FRANCISCO, ZIP 94112


BOOKS


BRENTANO'S


BOOKS CRAFTS GRAPHICS JEWELRY


PRINTS STATIONERY GAMES GIFTS


265 Sutter Street, San Francisco (94108) Mall At Northgate, San Rafael (94903)


Phone 982-2474 Phone 479-9660


BOWLING LANES


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L & L CASTLE LANES Inc


BOWLING BILLIARDS - COCKTAIL LOUNGE DINING ROOM - COFFEE SHOP


1750 Geneva Avenue (Near Cow Palace


Phone 586-9550


BRAKES AND WHEEL ALIGNMENT


KAHN & KEVILLE


Since 1913 One Of The Bay Area's Largest Independent Goodyear Distributors


NO FINER QUALITY


NEW AND RETREAD TIRE SPECIALISTS ALL SIZES FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC BRAKE AND WHEEL ALIGNING COMPUTER WHEEL BALANCING


GOOD YEAR


500 TURK AT LARKIN


TEL. 673-0200


BUILDING MAINTENANCE


CERVETTO BUILDING MAINTENANCE CO.


Window Cleaning - Janitorial Service - Steam Cleaning


CI


CERV


JOE


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Manufacturers Of Coat Of Arms Carpet Shampoo Cleaner - Shampoo - Wax and Sanitation Cleaners


Member Of San Francisco Maintenance Contractors Association


124-126 Russ Street


Phone 863-8840


Necessary to the complete and efficient equipment of every office. THE CITY DIRECTORY


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BUILDING SUPPLIES


Polk Pacific Building Supply


COMPLETE SELECTION PLUMBING FIXTURES & ACCESSORIES ON DISPLAY


KOHLER SHOWROOM OPEN EVERYDAY 8 - 6 SUNDAYS 9 - 4


mester charge


SAN FRANCISCO SHOWROOM NOW LOCATED AT


BANKAMERICARD


1555 PACIFIC AVE.


CALL 928-3000


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BUILDINGS - OFFICE


The Alcoa Building


America's Most Convenient Office Building


And most distinguished in design. Its 25 stories rise in dramatic splen- dor from superbly landscaped Maritime Plaza in the very heart of San Francisco's financial district. Beautiful. Bountiful. Unique. The Alcoa Building provides every pro- fessional and personal amenity for its occupants. Among them: Col- umn-free maximum office space. A 1500-car garage with access to


and from Embarcadero Freeway. Smart modern shops. Excellent eating places. Daily business facil- ities.


Landscaped areas for relaxation. World-famed works of art. Spec- tacular, protected views of The City and the Bay.


And, across pedestrian bridges, additional conveniences of Golden Gateway Center, of which the


Alcoa Building is an integral part. No business address in the entire West has more prestige than The Alcoa Building. None is more con- venient.


For information, call or write: Golden Gateway Center 99 Jackson St.


San Francisco, California 94111 (415) 434-2000


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BUSINESS MACHINES


TBS TOTAL BUSINESS SYSTEMS


Accounting Machines . Adding Machines . Data Capture Equipment . Typewriters Electronic Calculators . Cassette Systems . Sales and Services For Total Satisfaction


SCM MARCHANT BUSINESS EQUIPMENT DIVISION


· ELECTRONIC DISPLAY CALCULATORS


· ELECTRONIC PRINTING CALCULATORS


· PROGRAMMABLE CALCULATORS


· AUDIO CASSETTE SYSTEMS


· CASSETTE DUPLICATING SERVICE


· CASSETTE DUPLICATING EQUIPMENT


· TYPEWRITERS


· ADDING MACHINES


· DATA ENTRY EQUIPMENT


The Showplace! Suite 345, 2 Kansas Street, San Francisco, Calif. (94103)


Tel. 863- 3418


BUSINESS SERVICES


BUSINESS SERVICES UNLIMITED


ANNA L. WILLIAMS


Secretarial Services, Bookkeeping, Tax Consultant Answering Service, Identification Cards Search Of Records, Birth Certificates, Notary Public


TELS. 922-3453, 922-8585


701 Divisadero Street


San Francisco, Ca. (94117)


CABINET SHOPS


BRUNNER'S CABINET SHOP, INC.


By Old World Craftsmen "Alberto Bigotti


FURNITURE - STEREO CABINETS FIXTURES - KITCHEN REMODELING BUILT-INS - FORMICA TOPS REPAIRING - SPECIALTY ITEMS


1446 Pine St.


775-5325


San Francisco, Calif. 94109


CAMPAIGN PREPARATION


Campaign Data Service, Inc.


POLITICAL CAMPAIGN SERVICE


LETTER SHOP · DIRECT MAIL SERVICE . ARTWORK . FUND RAISING


333 Kearny St., San Francisco, CA 94108 433 6937


Recordék


FACIT


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CARPET CLEANERS


ACME JANITORIAL SERVICE


CARPET AND RUG CLEANING BUILDING MAINTENANCE FLOOR WAXING


TEL. 334-9271


972 Chenery St.


San Francisco


CARPETS


GREENFIELD CARPET SYSTEM


ATTENTION: DO IT YOURSELFERS DISCOUNT LINOLEUM AND TILES - MAJOR BRANDS WE ALSO SELL CARPETING - WALL PANELING - DRAPERIES COMPLETE SUPPLIES & EQUIPMENT TO DO-IT-YOURSELF We'll Teach You How To Lay Your Own Tile Or Linoleum Or We Can Do It For You


2045 Polk St., San Francisco, California 94109 776-0608


CEMETERIES


CYPRESS LAWN MEMORIAL PARK


A Non-Profit Cemetery For All Faiths PHONE 755-0580 COLMA, SAN MATEO COUNTY


CERAMIC MANUFACTURERS


Pizarek Ceramic Supply and Manufacturing Company


PHONE 275-0195


1501 Terminal Avenue


San Jose 95126


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CHURCHES - CATHOLIC


ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO


MOST REVEREND JOSEPH T. McGUCKEN Archbishop


CATHOLIC CHANCERY OFFICE


Phone 863-5112


445 Church Street


San Francisco (94114)


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COLLECTIONS


We're really lovers,


BUT.


WE CAN FIGHT LIKE THE DEVIL ON YOUR BEHALF TO COLLECT YOUR DELINQUENT ACCOUNTS


CREDIT MANAGEMENT SERVICES is proud of its steady growth and world wide coverage. People who owe you money are located everywhere-and so is CMS.


Our reputation in the industry is our most prized possession. Our well-trained staff serves our clients' needs with a new solution to an old problem: a truly professional approach to the collection of delinquent accounts.


NO COLLECTION - NO CHARGE


· Licensed and bonded · No membership fees


· No initiation charges


CREDIT MANAGEMENT SERVICES efIs


Offices in major cities throughout the U.S. and Canada


Home Office - Northern California


2800 Cleveland Avenue, Suite 1 · Santa Rosa, Ca. 95401 Ph. 707/544-1181 Southern California Office 1725 West 6th St., Suite 400 · Los Angeles, Ca. 90017 Ph. 213/484-2660


.......


PHONE 415/956-6179


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COLLECTIONS


ROMER, O'CONNOR & CO., Inc.


COLLECTIONS


An Intelligent, Aggressive, Complete Collection Service Serving The Western States Since 1928


FOR A DISCUSSION OF YOUR COLLECTION PROBLEMS PLEASE TELEPHONE OR WRITE


Phone 392-6579


San Francisco


703 Market Street


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BAD CHECKS


DELINQUENT ACCOUNTS


OVER DUE BILLS


$


$$


$


$


ARE YOU PAYING ... from 35 to 50% to collect your delinquent accounts or bad checks? We collect accounts for over 20,000 business and professional people at an average collection cost of only 4 to 12%.


COURT ACTION-


Complete Follow Through!


We advance all costs on warranted court actions which you authorize us to undertake on commission basis.


You may choose the service best suited to your accounts .


Diplomatically OR INTENSIVE


Offices in major cities throughout the U.S. and Canada


Home Office - Northern California


2800 Cleveland Avenue, Suite 1 · Santa Rosa, Ca. 95401 Ph. 707/544-1181 Southern California Office 1725 West 6th St., Suite 400 · Los Angeles, Ca. 90017 Ph. 213/484-2660


· Licensed and bonded


· No membership fees


· No initiation charges


· No percentages for us


· All money paid directly to you!


· You retain control of accounts


· Skip Tracing service optional


TRANS


W


RLD


ACCOUNTS INC


PHONE 415/956-6179


$


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$


LULLEL IIUNS


TRANS WORLD ACCOUNTS, Inc. Offers to collect your delinquent accounts or bad checks at an average collection cost of only 4 to 12%


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COLLECTIONS


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Bureau of Medical Economics COLLECTIONS ROY WHEELER, Managing Director PHONE 397-6921


760 Market Street


San Francisco


CBI COLLECTIONS SAN FRANCISCO




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