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Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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emporary buildingswere erected immediately after the fire of 1906, on permits issued by thethen mayor of San Francisco. It seems that no one knows how manybuildings are alTected by the order of the supervisors that they shall allbe demolished or removed on or before May 1, 1910. No record was keptof them. The permit to put up temporary buildings was a measure ofexpediency to meet an emergency. Buildings that must be removed were erected in the following streets :East, Steuart, Spear, Main, B^ale, Fremont, Drumm, Davis, Front, Battery,Sansome, Montgomery, Kearny, Grant avenue and Dupont, Stockton,Powell, Mason, Jones, Leavenworth,_ Hyde, Larkin, Polk, Van Nessavenue, Market, Mission, Grove, Fulton, McAllister, Golden Gate avenue,Turk, Eddy, Ellis, OFarrell, Geary, Post, Sutter, Bush, Pine, California,Sacramento, Clay, Washington, Jackson, ^Pacific avenue. Commercial,Vallejo, Green, Union, Filbert and Greenwich. Also a number on Frank-lin and Gough streets. 8C The Archilcct and EivAnccr
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0 •- »-.*»••.•>,. •.•.^•: Fig- How to Lay Wood Floors on Concrete Bases THERE are today in connection with building- construction many condi-tions which call for a concrete floor with a wood finish, as it mightbe termed; that is, a wood floor laid upon a concrete bed. Thereare several ways of constructing such a floor, and a London writer givessome valuable information that will come handy to most builders. Floorsconstructed as here shown are capable of carrying heavy loads with greatEconomy of timber as regards the size of joist to be used. In the methods described any of the usual joints may be adoptedinstead of rebated and filleted flooring, while if hardwood is the materialthe spacing of the joists must be altered to agree with the holes bored forthe nails, for hardwood flooring is generally supplied already bored forsecret nailing, the holes being at regular intervals. The following is a description of the floor illustrated in Iigs. 1 and 2.the latter being a l

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