Saturday scenes: Financial District evolution

Does it mean anything that San Francisco's Pacific Coast Stock Exchange grew up to be a gym?

Modern office towers dwarf the original Neo-classical facade. What began as an branch office of the federal Treasury department was remodeled into a financial hub in 1930 with the addition of two monstrous granite Art Deco statues adjacent to the grand entrance.

Agriculture is evidently the the domain of women.

The bold leaders of Industry look resolute. Given the era of their creation, they probably needed to be.

Note the pigeons. They find the figures convenient.

Trading of financial instruments here ceased in 2002. What do you do with a used stock exchange? Lease it to a "luxury fitness club."

It was a season working downtown among such wonders that inspired me to be begin Walking San Francisco.