Sorry, We're Closed: Bizarre Bay Businesses of Yore
Categories: SF Oddities
Sifting through online archives has produced a wealth of eclectic information about San Francisco -- including locals' brushes with ghosts and monsters. And today, we bring you Businesses That Don't Exist Anymore.
Yes, we realize how dull that sounds. But you have to take into account that during the 19thcentury people happily subjected themselves to all kinds of poisonous tonics and electrocuting devices in the name of health and virility, which means that the defunct ventures of the past are a great deal more thrilling than that empty Gap storefront in your neighborhood.
These examples were culled from scans of a publication called The San Francisco Merchant, which promoted itself as the only publication "Devoted to Viticulture, Olive Culture, and Other Productions, Manufactures and Commerce of the Pacific Coast."
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If only these offices were extant. We could really use that cure for diabetes. And lost manhood. (Where does it go?) I'm also curious about the anomalous skeleton that seems to have belonged to a devious, smiling person.
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Even though the Magnetic Elastic Truss Co. is long gone, we are fairly certain you can still access similar machines in San Francisco -- and that stimulating weak sexual organs is still one of their benefits.
If only Wakelee's were still around, you wouldn't be forced to buy that upscale, overpriced animal poison. They don't call them the "good ol' days" for nothing.
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If only Wakelee's were still around, you wouldn't be forced to buy that upscale, overpriced animal poison. They don't call them the "good ol' days" for nothing.
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