GOLDEN GATE IRON WORKS

My paternal grandfather, Charles Samuel aka, C. S. Hoffman, founded Golden Gate Iron Works, a structure steel fabricating business in 1906 and helped rebuild San Francisco after the 1906 Earthquake. Two magnificent works of art that Golden Gate Iron Works fabricated are visible today are: the ornamental iron works gates that are located at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, they are the gates with the gold tips and the ornamental iron work fence and the elaborate gates that surround San Francisco General Hospital on Potrero Street. My great Aunt Lena nee Hoffman Rosenthal's son is the famous Joe Rosenthal, of whom shot the famous WWII photograph of the US Marines hoisting the flag at Iwo Jima... <a href="http://www.acga.net/cgi-bin/DJmbr_showmbr.cgi?T=member.html=01019" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.acga.net/_img/_logos/ACGA-badge-assoc.jpg" width="180" height="60"></a>