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UER Forum > US: Pacific Southwest > Bagels with Locks (Viewed 5911 times)
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Bagels with Locks
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1909—Schlage’s first patent

Walter Schlage’s first invention, patented in 1909, was a door lock that turned lights on and off.


1920—The first Schlage shop

In about 1920, Mr. Schlage left his employment at Western Electric and opened a shop at 229 Mirma Street. He soon moved to loft quarters at 461 Bush Street (now the heart of the San Francisco Financial District). It was here tools for manufacturing the first lock with a push-button locking device centered in the door knob were designed and produced.


Early 1920’s—Schlage advances cylindrical pin-tumbler locks

In the early 1920’s, Walter Schlage advanced the concept of a cylindrical pin-tumbler lock by placing a push-button locking mechanism between the two knobs.



1923—Schlage goes into full-scale production


In 1923, Mr. Schlage moved his fledgling company to new quarters at 49 Shotwell Street, where he went into full-scale production of the push-button lock, which was destined to revolutionize the door lock industry.



1926—Bayshore Blvd. Plant is open for business

Confident of success, Mr. Schlage purchased a tract of two and half acres in the southeast section of San Francisco, known as Visitacion Valley. There, on Friday, June 25, 1926, the first unit of the San Francisco plant on Bayshore Boulevard was formally dedicated and declared open for business.


1940—Schlage named a “Modern Pioneer”

Six years before his death, Walter Schlage was honored and received the Modern Pioneer Award given to outstanding American inventors.


1946—Walter Schlage dies


1950’s—Schlage expands through acquisitions


The company began a period of expansion in the early 1950’s. It acquired California Lock Company to add a low-cost lock to the product line, Peabody Company from custom door hardware, and the LCN Closers to round out a more complete range of door hardware offerings.



The Bayshore buildings closed around 1999.
They included six vacant one-to-three-story industrial buildings, and a seventh building that formerly housed the company offices. There were also several smaller buildings that formerly served as storage sheds and a security office. In total, approximately 470,000 square feet of floor area


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In 1999, Home Depot planned to buy most of the lot but after a number of community meetings, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a zoning control measure barring construction for one year of any commercial building larger than 65,000 square feet on the former Schlage site.

Better that it stay abandoned for another 10+ years!
Thanks San Francisco!


Cell pics as usual

More here: http://s831.photob...ary/Schlage%20Lock

All historic data & pics from Schlage website

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Excellent set as usual

I love the diversity; from the historical background and pictures to the panorama, and of course...

The awesome gif! Very clever.




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This is fantastic! It's a shame it's been so tagged up, but still an awesome find. The historical context is very cool as well!




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Woaaahhh!!! What a great find! And the gif is adorable, by the way. XD




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Your work Is quite stunning!!




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< Reply # 5 on 3/8/2014 1:37 AM >
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Nice PoE shot :p... also looks like they have cleaned up in there quite a bit




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Re: Bagels with Locks
< Reply # 6 on 3/11/2014 10:15 PM >
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Tunnelbug and I had a `very` close call there a few years back, good memories :-p

Nice shots.




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< Reply # 7 on 3/11/2014 11:25 PM >
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i love what they did with the place.




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Would have loved to see this building without all of the graffiti.




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Would have loved to see this building without all of the graffiti.


That's what I say about every building.




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< Reply # 10 on 3/18/2014 6:40 AM >
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Here's some pics & pans from my trip.

When we went there, there was some weird stuff going on. Some woman walked in, asked if we were cops or if we were there to visit someone upstairs. We said we're just urban exing and she headed upstairs. We didn't abort mission, so we eventually found her on the third floor. At first she appeared to be alone, but then I realized she was talking to someone who was inside the walls by the front of the building. He was hammering or something. We very briefly explored this area, when I noticed a cop standing outside on the sidewalk in front of the building. We figured that their noise may have attracted attention, so we high-tailed it out of there. When we got out and de-masked, the cop was gone. We decided to play it safe and call it a day.

1. The outside


2. Half the first floor


3. Going upstairs


4. 2nd floor


5. Lots of feathers...


6. More 2nd floor


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8. Welcome to the office...


9. Offices


10. Didn't get a chance to take any close-ups of this area...




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Kind of ironic the building looks to have been left in such an insecure state from any way but the front, sort of like their locks.



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Thanks for adding your pics guys

This place and the roundhouse and school of the arts were all favorites cuz soooo close to home.
I love me an explore with a five minute commute!

There are homeless guys living in the wood shacks out in the field if anyone plans on going to check this place out. Best not to go poking around there.







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great work! i love how you found all this info on this place.

thanks for sharing.




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bonnie&clyde 


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This just in:

http://m.sf.curbed...t_schlage_lock.php

And thank you thetrainguru!




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"The old Schlage Lock Company factory..."





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I enjoy historical context almost as much as visiting the locations themselves. It really brings the place to life and gives you an idea of how it came to be in its current state. Tracing a path through time.

Thanks for the photos and the great info.




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