In the late nineteenth century, San Francisco's merchant princes built grand stores for a booming city, each with its own niche. For the eager clientele, a trip downtown meant dressing up- hats, gloves, and stockings required- and going to Blum's for Coffee Crunch Cake or Townsend's for creamed spinach. The I. Magnin empire catered to a selective upper-class clientele, while middle-class shoppers loved the Emporium department store, with its Bargain Basement and Santa for the kids. Gump's defined good taste, the City of Paris satisfied desires for anything French and edgy, youth-oriented Joseph Magnin ensnared the younger shoppers with the latest trends. 

Join Anne Evers Hitz as she takes us on a trip to the past,  looking back at the strong, colorful personalities who created six major stores that defined shopping in San Francisco before the days of the Internet. 

Proud to be a fifth-generation San Franciscan, author Anne Evers Hitz has had a long interest in San Francisco history, its lore, and legends. Anne is the author of Emporium Department Store (Arcadia, 2014) and San Francisco's Ferry Building (Arcadia, 2017). She is a volunteer guide at the Ferry Building for City Guides, a group of local volunteers who give free walking tours of San Francisco.  Anne is an experienced speaker who has entertained many historical societies and other organizations with her tales and visuals illustrating San Francisco's history.

When:  October 12

Time:  7:00 PM

Where:  To join in the ZOOM meeting click HERE.

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• What will you do more of or less of when things open up and perhaps "go back to normal"?
• Did you learn something unexpected (good or bad)?
• Any silver lining?

• The 1848 Seneca Falls convention with advocates Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton with Stanton declaring that they were "assembled to protest against a form of government existing without the consent of the governed..(with) disgraceful laws as give man the power to chastise and imprison his wife".

• In 1878 Stanton and Susan B Anthony presented an amendment to Congress to give women the right to vote.  It took 42 years to be ratified as the 19th Amendment in 1920.

• In 1890 Carrie Chapman Catt formed The National American Woman Suffrage Association which was the
  predecessor to the League of Women Voters.

• In 1913 Alice Paul organized a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue for the women's right to vote.  She was part of the Silent Sentinel of women who for two years stood in front of the White House peacefully protesting their right to vote. These women were harassed daily and thrown in jail.

• The Equal Rights Amendment was delivered to Congress in 1923 and nearly 100 years later has not been enacted. 

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