Folder: S.F. Banks-Bank of California (old).
Newscopy: "This is the 85-year-old Bank of California's first main office, erected in 1867 on the site of its present headquarters, on the corner of California and Sansome-sts. To make way for expanded and modernized quarters, the original building was torn down in 1905. When the earthquake and fire struck in 1906, there were only bare foundations awaiting the new building, into which the bank moved in 1908. This is the first commercial bank incorporated in California."