San Francisco's bizarre history of (literally) moving houses
San Francisco's bizarre history of (literally) moving houses FacebookTwitterEmail A Victorian home being moved on Steiner Street via horse power, 1908, San Francisco.Archival / Unknown Mark Twain didn't actually complain about the weather in San Francisco (the person who coined, "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco" has never claimed the quote), but he did have another gripe with the city. "An old house got loose from her moorings last night and drifted down Sutter Street towards Montgomery," the famed humorist wrote in the Daily Morning Call in 1886. "For several da...
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