Southern Pacific Building - Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco

This handsome building, 200 feet square, stands at the head of Palm Avenue, just within the Fillmore Street entrance to the Grounds, between the Zone and the Palace of Machinery.

It is open daily for the comfort, entertainment and service of visitors, without charge of any kind. Every feature, convenience and facility is free to the public. As guests of the Southern Pacific Company all are invited to make use of its rest rooms, to attend the illustrated lectures and organ recitals in its theatre, and to stroll through The Glade in its central court, where are reproduced with natural and pleasing effect some of the noted scenes on Southern Pacific lines.

The map on the center pages shows plan of the building with its principal features marked.

The Foyer

In the spacious foyer, which is entered from the columned portico, is a register for your name and address. The company welcomes you and will be glad to have you recorded among its visitors.

The building, near the Fillmore Street entrance, is easily identified. The foyer is a most convenient place for meeting your friends, and a letter-rack is provided in which you may leave notes for them. Make the building a place of rendezvous.

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Southern Pacific Building Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco



This handsome building, 200 feet square, stands at the head of Palm Avenue, just within the Fillmore Street entrance to the Grounds, between the Zone and the Palace of Machinery. It is open daily for the comfort, entertainment and service of visitors, without charge of any kind. Every feature, convenience and facility is free to the public. As guests of the Southern Pacific Company all are invited to make use of its rest rooms, to attend the illustrated lectures and organ recitals in its theatre, and to stroll through The Glade in its central court, where are reproduced with natural and pleasing effect some of the noted scenes on Southern Pacific lines. The map on the center pages shows plan of the building with its principal features marked. The Foyer In the spacious foyer, which is entered from the columned portico, is a register for your name and address. The company welcomes you and will be glad to have you recorded among its visitors. The building, near the Fillmore Street entrance, is easily identified. The foyer is a most convenient place for meeting your friends, and a letter-rack is provided in which you may leave notes for them. Make the building a place of rendezvous.

Women's Room Men's Room
Rest Rooms At either end of the foyer are comfortable and tastefully furnished rest rooms, one to the left for women, and the other to the right for men. They are finished in veneer panels of California white pine in natural color; are provided with desks, writing material, stationery and postal cards with colored illustration of building. Newspapers from the principal cities of the East are kept on file. In the women's rest room is a frieze of pictures of some of California's beautiful gardens. A maid in attendance will care for the wants of women and children. Off the women's rest room is an apartment equipped by the Southern Pacific Hospital Department with trained nurse in charge. In the men's room, where smoking is permitted, is a series of fishing, hunting and athletic scenes. The Glade From the foyer toward the central court of the building there are three entrances, the center one being through a California Big Tree, just as the Yosemite stage road pasees through the heart of the Big Tree "Wawona" in the Mariposa Grove. Here opens The Glade where at frequent turns in the pathway to right and left, as shown on the map, appear panoramic views with natural trees and foreground, graphically depicting with pleasing effect noted scenes reached via Southern Pacific lines. A stroll through The Glade will impress and delight you.


Ticket Office
Southern Pacific Ticket Office and Information Bureau Opening off The Glade to the left, is the Southern Pacific ticket office, where railroad tickets may he bought, Pullman reservations made and return tickets validated. It is finished in California white pine veneer panels and decorated with photographic enlargements of scenes along the line. The large panel of the Big Trees, 40 feet long and 80 inches high, is a triumph in photography. In the windows are colored transparencies of views along the Sunset, Ogden and Shasta routes. An immense wall map of the United States clearly shows Southern Pacific's extensive rail and steamship lines. On either side are enlarged sectional maps of San Francisco Bay region and of the Pacific Electric System surrounding Los Angeles. At the Information Bureau side trips are planned and itineraries carefully prepared.
Sunset Theatre
Sunset Theatre This is modeled after the Little Theatre in New York City. It is entered from the ticket office and seats 350. It is equipped with complete stereopticon and moving picture apparatus. Half-hour lectures on travel and industries along Southern Pacific lines are given each hour from 11 a. m. to 6 p. m., by Dr. George Wharton James, Mr. James W. Erwin and Mr. John P. Clum. There are recitals on a Kimball pipe organ during the half-hour intervals. Here a restful hour may be passed while viewing scenes and learning of places and regions well worth visiting. Use Building as Mail Address Have your mail addressed care Southern Pacific Ticket Office, Exposition Grounds, San Francisco. It will be held till called for. Southern Pacific Equipment Exhibit The Equipment Exhibit of Southern Pacific in the Palace of Transportation should not be missed. It includes the largest locomotive ever shown at any exposition; also one of the first locomotives run on the Central Pacific. Chas. S. Fee, Passenger Traffic Manager San Francisco. California