The Storied Fairmont San Francisco Hotel: From Frank Sinatra to Marilyn Monroe
True confession: I’ve lived in the Bay Area for over a decade without ever visiting the Fairmont Hotel San Francisco. Sure, I’d driven past the landmark building at the top of Nob Hill. And my husband,...
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When a 13-year-old son of Italian immigrants dropped out of school to help run the family produce company, not a soul imagined the young boy would launch what became the world’s largest commercial bank...
View ArticleIntercontinental Mark Hopkins on San Francisco’s Hill of Palaces
When acclaimed novelist and travel writer Robert Louis Stevenson sat beneath a tree at the lower southern slope of Nob Hill in 1878, it was less than a year since railroad magnate Mark Hopkins died....
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