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1906
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Construction begins on the Sentinel Building
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18 Apr 1906
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San Francisco earthquake kills over 3,000 people and destroys 80% of the city
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1907
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Completion of the Sentinel Building, whose skeletal construction had survived the 1906 earthquake
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1958
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Dutch businessman Robert Moor purchases the Sentinel building as an investment and extensively restores the deteriorating building
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1972
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Francis Ford Coppola buys the Sentinel Building for the headquarters of his production company, American Zoetrope
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1999
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Francis Ford Coppola opens Cafe Zoetrope on the ground floor of the Sentinel Building
