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rTfaHE firsc home of White Brothers waE at ll, M"tk"t and California Streets in 1872.

Previously this building was the home of the steam car line that ran on San Francisco's now world famous Market Street; the "old steam dummy" which only the oldest of old timers will remember.

Fifty,three years ago White Brothers'estab, lishment was the headquarters for the furniture factories which were then making mid'Vctor, ian horsehair covered furniture which the small boy and girl of that period found so slip, pery to sit upon.

White Brothers was headquarters for the hardwood for the interiors of the finer homes of that era; White Brothers also supplied the needs of the expert wagonmakers who built those famous old thoroughbrace coaches and the buggies of that pre,automobile day.

The stock of American hardwoods in those days came in clipper ships around the Horn. Hardwoods from the tropics arrived in San Francisco Bay in the old side,wheel steamers. Some of the foreign supply connections made by \l/hite Brothers ffty years ago are still shipping their f,ne hardwoods to us.

Today the stock of hardwoods carried is in keeping with the requirements of the timeswagon work uses some but, of course, is not the important business it was of old; auto work, ship work, furniture work and interior trim for homes all take a goodlyamount.Hard, wood panels and hardwood flooring have come into almost universal use, and new woods are constantly coming into prominence. The old standby*-Mahogany, Walnut and Oak-have stood the test of time, however, and have through all the years maintained a standard of beauty and quality where fine hardwoods are required.