PINGER By Mary Matlack Photographer by Daniel Garcia
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The Evolution of Cloud Communication
The grey, chunky building in downtown San Jose on the corner of San Fernando and South 2nd was quite something in 1908. Home of the first furniture store to open west of Denver and with five floors of furniture, 97 S. Second Street was the largest showroom in San Jose. L. Lion and Sons had a 109 year run in San Jose, providing the growing community with the latest fashions for the home. Today, passersby seeing a small black sign reading, “The Lion Building”, might think that the building was named after the ceramic lions that grace the front entrance. They might not notice that up on the second story where the floor to ceiling windows are a clue to the building’s former glory, another business is poised for a significant run some 40 years after the Lion family closed up shop.
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