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Pictured in circa 1910 is the Weinstock, Lubin and Company department store at 400 K Street. The structure replaced the previous Weinstocks building, located on the same spot. What the "Sacramento Bee" had called "The Magnificent White Building on K Street" was burned to the ground on Saturday, January 31, 1903. In the melee to follow, Sacramento firefighter Frank Casebolt was struck in the head and killed by falling bricks while two others were injured. The strength of the store’s iron-doored entrance forced the fire crew to rig up an impromptu battering ram to breach the structure. So great was the fire’s intensity that “Sacramento Bee” production foreman James Robbins, who was living five miles away in Brighton township, the future site of Sacramento State University, could see the flames reach above the apex of the dome of the State Capitol building. Material damage amounted to 750,000 dollars, but even before embers cooled, the store’s Chairman, Colonel Harris Weinstock, promised to rebuild. Within 13 months, Weinstock, Lubin and Company would do so, building the pictured store, this time with a sprinkler system. The company moved to a new location at Twelfth and K in 1925.
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