Ap Hotaling Warehouse

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  • Address
    451-55 Jackson St, Jackson Square
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  • Transport
    bus: 10, 12, 15

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Lonely Planet review

'If, as they say, God spanked the town/For being over-frisky,/Why did He burn His churches down/And spare Hotaling's whiskey?' The snappiest comeback in SF history was this saloon-goers' retort after Hotaling's 1866 whiskey warehouse survived the 1906 earthquake and fire, which many considered divine retribution for Barbary Coast debauchery.

A bronze plaque with this ditty still graces the resilient Italianate building, a proud monument for debauchers everywhere.