Hotaling Building
Old SF.
"HOTALING BUILDING
Built in 1866 and occupied by A. P. Hotaling
& Co., this building housed the largest liquor
repository on the West Coast. It survived the
1906 earthquake and fire due to a mile long
fire hose laid from Fisherman's Wharf over
Telegraph Hiill by the U.S. Navy. This prompted
the famous doggerel by Charles Field:
If, as they say, God sapnked the town
For being overly frisky,
Why did he burn the churches down
And save Hotaling's whisky?"
Dedicated March 28, 1992
Yerba Buena Chapter No. 1
E Clampus Vitus"
Submitted by @plaidiguana