Alpaca Wool & The City of Paris
Not looking for anything in particular I stumbled upon this amazing 4 yard bolt of vintage alpaca wool in The White Elephant's fabric dept. Someone had it wrapped in this old newspaper and stored it like this for almost 40 years! It was originally purchased at the famed San Francisco Department Store, City of Paris. The City of Paris Dry Goods Company (later City of Paris) was one of San Francisco's most important department stores from 1850 to 1976, located diagonally opposite Union Square. During the mid 20th century it opened a few branches in other cities of the Bay Area. The main San Francisco store was demolished in 1980 after a lengthy preservation fight to build a new Neiman Marcus, although the store's original rotunda and glass dome were preserved and incorporated into the new design. The ship was the official seal of the City of Paris department store in San Francisco. Built in 1909, the Latin inscription tran...