Lick House, southwest corner Montgomery & Sutter, 1899. Masonic Temple cupola; Crocker Building. Telephone wires, a wire for each telephone prior to cable system; light poles. Hastings Clothing Store, first started in Lick House, foreground. Street vendor, probably selling eyeglasses -- the purchaser was given a card and kept trying on glasses until he found a pair through which he could read the card, paid the seller 50 cents, and hooked the new glasses onto his nose.