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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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trian escalators are pro-posed at Second and Third Streets on Hill,and at Court Street on Broadway, forthose who walk to work or use publicvehicles. THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINF.EH ^30 ► TIII.Y. NINETEEN THIRTY-THREE VICISSITUDES OF A YOUNG ARCHITECT by Ninth Installment of Personal Sketches Reminiscentof the Early Architectural Practice of the Author ELMER GREY, F. A. I. A. A BOUT THE TIME of which I have been writing I made some interesting acquaintances in California,some of whom and their doings might be mentioned here. Men of note are interesting, not be-cause they are noted particularly, but of-ten because they conduct their lives in individual ways,unfettered by cus-tom, and so suggest to us ways by which we may live our own lives more naturally and effectively. There w^as Bertram Goodhue for in-stance. He knew howto conform to custom and did so when it made life smooth-er and more enjoy-able, yet in some respects no man was ever less bound by custom than he. I dont remember drawing by Bertram
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where or when I first met him or how^ we happened to become well acquainted, but at the tiole the San Diego Exposition was projected I received a letter from him in which he spoke of the post of Directing Architect of that important undertaking.It is a position I want very much indeed, he wrote, but I have just heard that it is not for me.I wasnt at first going to tell you what it is, but I think I will change my mind.They have a perfectly lovely problem and one with which. . . thought I was better fitted to deal than any other architect, thanks to my studies of and bookupon Spanish Colonial architecture in Mexico. Needless to say I am bitterly disappointed at the turn affairs have taken and-•- it is equally needless GOODHUE, ARCHITECT to ask you to regard ^31 ► this information as approximately confidential and not to take any hand in it unless you think the circumstances warrant you inso doing. You ask me when I am coming to California and my answer is Please God. soon. Had the San Diego af

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