Sunday, 29 November 2020

Charles Crocker’s Spite Fence

quote [ Back when San Francisco's luxurious destination Nob Hill was just another neighborhood in the newly incorporated city, a young German immigrant named Nicholas Yung built himself a modest three-story house at the top of what was then California Hill. ]

no matter where the surveyor says the property line is
[SFW] [history] [+2 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@6:18amGMT]

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mechavolt said @ 10:12pm GMT on 29th Nov
I find it ironic that Yung refused to sell his entire life, and then his wife kept the fight going until they "won" with Crocker's death. And then their fucking kids went and sold it to the Crocker family anyway. Thank God for double-ironic earthquakes.

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