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The Pickwick Hotel 800.227.3282 toll free |
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| The Pickwick Hotel was built at a time when transportation was revolutionizing the way we live and travel. Automobile dealerships, scheduled motorcoach travel, and passenger air service all came of age while the corner stone of the Pickwick Hotel was being laid at the busy and fashionable intersection of 5th and Mission Streets. For its part, no other hotel in San Francisco was built for such a single purpose in mind, as an oasis in a new easily traveled world. For the weary guest, The Pickwick Hotel epitomized a grand vision of time honored elegance while combining modern comfort and convenience. That proud tradition carries on today, and we invite you to experience it first hand. You’ll know doubt arrive by the same modes of transportation made available to our first guests way back in 1926. While staying at The Pickwick Hotel we invite you to explore the city made so famous in the writings of author Dashiell Hammett. Originally from Maryland, Hammett moved west and after a bout with tuberculosis, and a stint as a guard for the Pinkerton Security firm, then located a block from the hotel, he chose a career as a writer. His most successful novel, The Maltese Falcon (1930) which specifically mentions the Pickwick Hotel, went on to inspire the 1941 Warner Brother’s classic movie. Today, guests and San Francisco patrons alike can experience a touch of the past while sipping a cocktail in our own “Falcon’s” Bar. |
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