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Display window at Lion & Sons furniture store. A couch, a chair, and a piano figure in the display. There are light fixtures in the ceiling and floor lamps. A sign on the floor reads "L. Lion & Sons Co." "Founded in 1856 by Lazard Lion, the company moved to this new building at the corner of Second and San Fernando Streets in 1908. Though L. Lion went out of business in 1967, the structure still remains, with the first floor occupied by the Gordon Biersch Brew Pub." From: Bob Johnson. "San Jose," Arcadia Publishing. p. 20. (http://books.google.com/books?id=azqvDO8PnasC&lpg=PA20&dq=lion%20and%20sons%20san%20jose&pg=PA20#v=onepage&q=lion%20and%20sons%20san%20jose&f=false) Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
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