Wells Fargo History Museum
The first time I came to San Francisco, I stayed at the Green Tortoise Hostel in North Beach (highly recommended, by the way). This meant that I walked up and down Montgomery and nearby streets a lot, and that I walked past the Wells Fargo History Museum at Montgomery and California. Six years later, I got around to going there. Yes, I have been known to procrastinate from time to time. Anyway, details and pictures after the jump.
The museum is on the site where Wells, Fargo & Company opened in 1852. Their start had less to do with banking than with transport–Wells and Fargo got their start shipping oysters across New York. They did this with stagecoaches:
As they expanded into California, they started to diversify into banking, as most of their customers were gold miners:
The Wells Fargo museum concentrates on early Californiana, and particularly the Gold Rush. And it’s free–hard to argue with free, hmm?
SF is cool
Blogging is cool
SF bloggers are cool, thus.
Especially a big ol’ group of writers like yourselves. Makes our museum look even better….
There’s a WF museum in Minneapolis, too, fyi — http://www.wellsfargohistory.com/museums/mnmuseum.html
Since you’re originally from there, and all.