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4 unusual facts about Fairmont San Francisco


Bartlett L. Thane

In a Draft Registration Card completed in September 1918, Thane listed his permanent address as the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.

Manuel Kabajar Cabase

With Amapola’s career firmly entrenched in the United States, Cabase and his wife, Sheila, joined their daughter and their group reunited at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco from 1977 to 1982.

Tiki bar

The Tonga Room of the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco is an iconic tiki bar operating since 1945, and undergoing a number of facelifts over the years.

Tom Ammiano

In October 2009 Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Governor of California appeared at a Democratic Party fundraiser at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel.


Arthur Upham Pope

By 1927 he and Phyllis returned to San Francisco and pursued additional design projects, including an ornate Persian-palace-style interior for the penthouse of the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco and the interior of the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park, where they made extensive use of Middle Eastern kilims as well as Native American artifacts.


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