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Fossil Fish

Eocene fish fossil from Kemmerer, Wyoming.

Uploaded on Jan 9, 2012

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San Francisco: Marquard's

Marquard's Smoke Shop at 167 Powell St. Although a clothing store is now at this location, for many years Marquard's sold newspapers, magazines, cigars, and liquor on this corner. Although not referenced in The Maltese Falcon, it seemed the kind of place Sam Spade would have frequented.

As the San Francisco Chronicle wrote when they reported on the closing of the original smoke shop in 2004, "The ghost of 'The Maltese Falcon' private eye haunts this corner."

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Uploaded on Dec 26, 2011

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