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Mark Hopkins Hotel, Nob Hill
The Mark Hopkins Hotel, sits on the site of the 1876 Mark Hopkins Mansion. Actually Hopkins, one of the "Big Four" railroad barons and a man of simple tastes, never lived in the mansion. He died before it was built. His wife, Mary however lived there with her second husband, an interior decorator, a man twenty-two years her junior. When the hotel was built in 1925 the 19th floor was the private residence of copper magnate D. C. Jackling. When Jackling left in 1939 it was remodeled into the now-famous 'Top of the Mark' celebrated in story and song. During World War II thousands of serviceman and their wives and girlfriends drank final toasts here before the men were shipped overseas. The women would often watch the troop ships sail off from this same location, causing the western corner of floor to be named "Weeper's Corner".
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