building inspection brown bag lunch. today we have an extremely special event. we are here at paige glass on mission street in san francisco with mr. ken paige. ken paige has generously invited us into his glass shop and gallery. and the paige glass goes back a long, long time, right? to preearthquake, whichever earthquake all of them. they re all good. when did paige glass start? the big one, 1906. this happened afs in your family, was paige glass back then? well, the 1906 was a very important year, of course, for san francisco, needless to say. the bad news was the death and destruction, city in flames. the good news for my grandfather was even though he was living, at that point, in a tent out in golden gate park, you know, one of a whole lot of people. the good news, he was a young glazer, and every window in the city was broken. a holy grail of glazing. [laughter.] so at that point, shortly after the tremors sopped, he said wait a minute, i ve got this
the old term was crystal. if you talk to somebody my age, they would say because 3/16 was always poured glass and always crystal. they didn t do a twin ground. so it is the same thing as the quarter inch. and you still see it around because they put it in where they re trying to lighten a way. you want to put it in a window so it s not so heavy on a double-hung. it s a good product, but again, you know. you know, it s like window glass, you just have to hit it just a little harder. plate glass, same way. you know, this is what essentially was in i-magnum. this is what s in the mills building. this is what s in the rust building. this is what s in th in the hurt building. there s putty around them. they re going to shift. the wood kind of comes and goes. so it takes quite a bit to break a piece of plate because i mean you can this will take quite a bit of vertical weight but if it gets bound or whatever, you know, if you just get it in the wrong spot, that s what happens
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