A visitor had a hard time finding the entrance to the office. Once in the office he would find himself in a room which held a single bench. Later a small enclosure was added. This enclosure had to be completely soundproof because within it was the newly invented telephone which had to be protected from noise. Incoming conversations were difficult to hear and outgoing messages had to be shouted in a very loud voice. In the beginning the telephone was used only for conversation with the buyers in the production areas, later on various outlets were Installed In the office.

To the left of the reception room was the office of the bookkeeper and contained a large vault where cash and heavy ledgers were kept. So solid was the vault that the workmen could not remove it after the building was to be converted and father was consulted although he had no further Interest in the business.

The main office had space for four or five clerks who industriously worked on their pults (standing desks), later replaced by typewriter stands. In the rear two rooms were reserved for the six or seven partners. These rooms were Just large enough to hold two desks. It must have been expected that most of the partners were on business trips most of the time. The last room, also very small, was the conference room where the partners discussed the latest happenings and at what price hops were to be bought and sold.

All In all, the office would seem very, modest to the modern visitor, but this was the style in the early 1860s.

An important part of the ground floor was the sampling room. Since the color of hops is considered very important, the light had to come from the north. The ideal color of hops is dark green and a recent magazine article referred to hops as "green gold". I never heard this expression in Nuremberg.

A court separated the office from the large warehouse with its six or seven floors. Huge quantities of hops arrived there in horse‐drawn vans, to be dried, classified according to quality and sulphurized, ie. exposed to sulphur smoke to keep it in good condition. The hops were then pressed into bales of three or four hundred pounds to be loaded again on horsedrawn vehicles and forwarded to various breweries. If the brewery was overseas the bales were placed into iron cylinders so that water and temperature could not affect the hops.

Salomon Tuchmann and his family lived in two apartments above the office. The children lived there even after they were married and had children of their own.

As business Improved they gradually moved out.

Joseph bought a one‐family house (villa) on Marienstrasse 1, now occupied by the Amtsgericht (County Court). Ernst Tuchmann built a two family house, also on Marienstrasse, opposite the Marlen Park. Friedrich Tuchmann bought a house on Gleisbuehlstrasse 13 which his brother Ernst had built and Heinrich made his home on Bahnhofstrasse, a short distance from the office. Finally only Richard Tuchmann, a son of Joseph, remained in Bahnhofstrasse 5 together with an employee who occupied the second floor.

The office moved, about 1925, after the firm entered into an agreement with Moritz Rosenwald who had office and warehouse space at Heideloffstrasse 17 in Nuremberg.