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I heart 703 Fillmore. It is on Fillmore just south of Broadway. Long before being the First Holy Temple Full Gospel Baptist Church, it was the Masiel Furniture store built in 1925.
In the pictures above, you can see some of the detail…look at the old awning framework and some of the awning still left.
I am glad the building is in use.
It is another little rough around the edges gem of a building in B-F.
I recall it being called “Polonia Furniture” for a while. Maisel also had a place in back on Gibson St.
The awnings are there from a City-funded facade program back the 70s or 80s that affected a number of buildings. One of the things it did was to paint that arch on the Erhardt building, another gave a new front to the Wishing Well, I recall.
Hmm, or was it Swados on Gibson ? Gotta look it up.
Indeed a great building.