Private issues (other shops etc)

Barbers

Peluquería de Los Baños de San Agustín

A 30c note^{[image needed]} from a barber's shop. The Baños de San Agustín, below Hotel San Agustín, situated at Bajos de San Agustín, núm. 1, were the best in Mexico City (of course they were).

Peluquería Imperio

A 10c note^{[image needed]} from another barber's shop, at Gante 1, run by Fructuoso Vallecillo.

Bath-houses

Baños de los Arquitos

Presumably named after the famous Baños de los Arquitos in Aguascalientes, constructed in 1821. 'Alberca' is the swimming pool.

Baños del Factor

This bathouse with all the latest luxuries and conveniences was opened in February 1885^{Le Trait d'Union, 31 January 1885} at 2a calle del Factor 6. A 5c vale from this bathhouse was included in Casasola's exposition^{https://mediateca.inah.gob.mx/repositorio/islandora/object/fotografia%3A191511}.

Baños del Harem

run by J. Fernández y Cía.

Gran Baño de San Felipe de Jesús

This bathhouse was situated at calle de Venero 538 and San Felipe 17 and 18. In August 1888 it had been acquired and renovated by Amado García, the founder of the Baños de la Corona^{El Monitor Republicano, 13 October 1888}.

This boleto states that it is accepted in the baths' barbershop.

Hotels

Billares Gillow

This pool hall was set up in early 1911 in the basement of the hotel of the same name, with entrances on Avenida Isabel la Católica and Avenida 5 de Mayo^{El Imparcial, 7 March 1911}. It was run by Santoyo Picazo y Cía.

A 5c note was included in Casasola's exposition^{https://mediateca.inah.gob.mx/repositorio/islandora/object/fotografia%3A191511}.

Hotel Palacio

The elegant Hotel Palacio, situated one block from the Zócalo, opened in April 1903. It had a first class restaurant, with meals served a la carte or American Plan (three meals a day included in the hotel rate). These notes will have been used in the restaurant or bars (the Moctezuma Orizaba, that has no rivals, is a beer).

Shops

“La Abeja”

La Abeja”, a department store at Plaza de la Constitución (the Zócalo), 29, owned by J. de la Serna, offered a complete range of oak furnishings and an immense assortment of Mexican and imported goods, and had its own factories producing cotton and wool articles.

Farmacía y Droguería “Colon”

The new Colon drugstore, situated at Avenida de San Francisco núm. 20 and owned by the firm of Parra y Cía., “fitted with every luxury and to the most demanding needs of modern pharmacopoeia”, was opened on 1 November 1913^{El Correo Español, 30 October 1913}.

A 50c note dated 31 June 1915^{[image needed]}.

La Popular

A 10c note^{[image needed]} from a store located at Palma and 5 de Mayo.

"La Providencia"

Lázaro Petrides Tabaquería

A 10c note^{[image needed]} from a tobacconist, situated at Avenida San Francisco 8. The Avenida San Francisco was renamed Avenida Francisco I. Madero by Pancho Villa on 8 December 1914, but still has its former name in adverts of 1915.

In 1875 Lázaro Petrides, a Cypriot immigrant, opened the first cigar and cigarette shop in Mexico. It soon became a must-see stopover for connoisseurs, and even Pancho Villa himself, they say, ordered his cigars here. Petrides had also moved into money changing by May 1915^{The Mexican Herald, Año XX, No. 7,178, 3 May 1915} and received a licence as a casa de cambio.

advertisement from May 1915

advertisement from October 1915

advertisement from April 1919

On 22 January 1916 he was also appointed managing director and treasurer of the newly-founded Compañía Petrolifera “El Verjel”, S. A. which had a capital of $1,500,000^{El Pueblo, Año III, Tomo I, Núm. 474, 13 February 1916}.

Petrides’ business closed and his descendants emigrated to the United States, but his brothers and nephews, who arrived in Mexico fleeing the war in Europe in 1939, also opened a shop, Hermanos Petrides, in calle de Uruguay, which continues the tradition and is still an essential stop for heavy cigar smokers.

Theatres and cinemas

Parisiana

A cinema located at 5a Limantour (later calle Abraham González) and 2a Barcelona. It was remodelled in 1941 and was still open in 1955 but had closed by 1971. The building was later demolished and replaced with an apartment building that was destroyed in the 1985 earthquake.

Again, these seem unlikely, but confirmation comes from the fact that they were included in a display of vales photographed by Casasola in c. 1914^{https://mediateca.inah.gob.mx/repositorio/islandora/object/fotografia%3A191511}.

Salon Rojo

Jacob(o) Granat was born in 1871 in Lemberg (today Lviv), a city in Ukraine, at the time part of the Austrian empire. In 1900, at the invitation of his uncle Jacob Kalt, he moved to Veracruz, and a year later to Mexico City. Granat quickly became the “curio king” of the capital, selling luggages, post cards and other souvenirs from his shop in calle San Francisco.

In 1906, Granat sold his shop to purchase the old Borda palace, on the corner of Madero and Bolivar, where he opened the first movie theatre of the city, the famous Salón Rojo. Salón Rojo rapidly became the most luxurious and successful theatre in the city, and a centre of night life for Mexico’s rich and famous. It attracted politicians, notably Francisco Madero, who used to hold political meetings in Salón Rojo, and became a friend for Granat.

in the mid 1920s, Granat sold the Salón Rojo and moved back to Europe, settling in Austria. One of the reasons for his departure was the disappointment and sadness caused by the Madero’s dismissal and assassination. Apparently, he tried to move back to Mexico after the Nazi invasion of Austria, but could not, or was not allowed to, travel, and he and his wife were sent to Auschwitz, where they died in the gas chamber in 1943.

We know of a 20c note^{[image needed]} from the Salón.

Teatro "El Alcazar"

A 10c note.