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Margot Fraser, right, importer of Birkenstock Footprint Sandals, walks with warehouse supervisor Brian Smith through their Novato warehouse full of imported sandals. The brand was founded in 1774, but grew in popularity first in Europe before becoming synonymous with the hippie movement of the 1960s and 1970s, even being sold in health stores in California. The campus was a fitting location for the rising shoe corporation, which had been expanding rapidly since Marin resident Margot Fraser began importing the shoes in the 1960s and chose Marin County as the U.S. McGraw-Hill exited the buildings in 1991, and Birkenstock moved in just a year later. His father Edward Grosvenor Bolles was also an architect, arriving in San Francisco in 1893, and residing in Berkeley when Bolles was born in 1905.īolles helped his father in the design of many buildings at the Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island in 1939, before going out on his own and contributing to Bay Area mid-century architecture through the 1970s. While his work is largely praised, a few projects, like Candlestick Park and Embarcadero Plaza, weren’t well received, perhaps dampening the reception of his other works.
Jeff Boyd via Flickr CC 2.0īolles designed a number of prominent Bay Area spaces, including Candlestick Park and the IBM campus in San Jose. The larger warehouse acted as a distribution center for the company’s textbook operation, while the offices housed workers.Ī view of the Birkenstock warehouse in Novato. in the early 1960s for publishing giant McGraw-Hill. Prominent modernist architect John Savage Bolles designed the campus at 8171 Redwood Blvd.
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