SODAPOPBOB
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Mar 10, 2010
- Messages
- 11,502
- Reaction score
- 49
- Points
- 0
I hope you are taking notes, because I'm the one researching and writing this and I'm getting a little confused myself. But that's okay, we'll figure it out eventually. [
] According to this newspaper article, it was the Pacific Glass Works who purchased the property near Fifteenth and Folsom streets to build a glass factory. If you read any of the previous articles about the November 29, 1900 roof accident you probably noticed where they said the plant was just recently completed and ready to begin production in about a week. So it appears that most if not all of the articles include various (confusing) typos as to who actually operated the factory. If this account is accurate, as I believe it to be, then we now know it was the Pacific Glass Works roof that collapsed on Thanksgiving day on November 29, 1900. However, this isn't the end of the story. Go back to the Makers Marks listings and you will see where it shows the Pacific Glass Works as being in operation between 1862 and 1875. But if that's the case, then how do we explain this article about the company from ... The San Francisco Chronicle ~ June 2, 1900 With my main point of emphasis being, we now have a date of 1900, which is two years earlier than the makers marks websites attribute to these various companies. Notice in the article that the property was basically bare land at the time of the 1900 purchase. ( To be continued ) [attachment=Pacific Glass Work...itle (1050x80).jpg] [attachment=Pacific Glass Work...900 (1050x863).jpg]
] According to this newspaper article, it was the Pacific Glass Works who purchased the property near Fifteenth and Folsom streets to build a glass factory. If you read any of the previous articles about the November 29, 1900 roof accident you probably noticed where they said the plant was just recently completed and ready to begin production in about a week. So it appears that most if not all of the articles include various (confusing) typos as to who actually operated the factory. If this account is accurate, as I believe it to be, then we now know it was the Pacific Glass Works roof that collapsed on Thanksgiving day on November 29, 1900. However, this isn't the end of the story. Go back to the Makers Marks listings and you will see where it shows the Pacific Glass Works as being in operation between 1862 and 1875. But if that's the case, then how do we explain this article about the company from ... The San Francisco Chronicle ~ June 2, 1900 With my main point of emphasis being, we now have a date of 1900, which is two years earlier than the makers marks websites attribute to these various companies. Notice in the article that the property was basically bare land at the time of the 1900 purchase. ( To be continued ) [attachment=Pacific Glass Work...itle (1050x80).jpg] [attachment=Pacific Glass Work...900 (1050x863).jpg]
