Giants Anchor Steam Canvas Print

Giants Anchor Steam... Neon sign..Anchor began during the California Gold Rush when Gottlieb Brekle arrived from Germany and began brewing in San Francisco. In 1896, Ernst F. Baruth and his son-in-law, Otto Schinkel, Jr., bought the old brewery on Pacific Avenue and named it Anchor. The brewery burned down in the fires that followed the 1906 earthquake, but was rebuilt at a different location in 1907.[2] There is no record of what Anchor did during Prohibition, but it resumed serving Steam Beer after Repeal, possibly as the only steam brewing company still in operation.[3] However the brewery burned down yet again within the year, and it relocated once more, this time to a building a few blocks away.

The brewery continued operations into the late 1950s, but suffered heavily from the country's increasingly strong preference for the light lagers produced by the megabreweries.[4] Whereas there had been more than 4,000 breweries at the turn of the twentieth century, only 70 remain...

My wife calls my camera our fourth child because it goes with us everywhere we go.This would explain the wide variety of photography on my site.After living in the Lake Tahoe Basin for more than 20 years an early disability retirement forced me to move down from the harsh winters of the high sierras to find a more tempered climate . This has opened up new photography opportunities for me and I am looking forward to new things and areas of interest to photograph.I hope you enjoy my site and please leave comments.My work has been featured in the United States And Europe .Magazines such as Happinez, Back Country and also used by the Smithsonian Chanel Missing Evidence program.My work has also been commissioned by several artists for...