An authentic San Francisco experience : Sam s burger joint to gain legacy status
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Barry Duong and Richard Aspillera wait for their food outside Sam’s Burgers in San Francisco.Nick Otto/Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Second-generation owner Emad Elshawa serves a burger at Sam’s.Nick Otto/Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Michael Schaff, visiting from Mandan, N.D., eats a burger at Sam’s in San Francisco, which is expected to receive Legacy Business Registry status this week.Nick Otto/Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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The menu at Sam’s Burgers, which was recently approved for addition to San Francisco’s Legacy Business Registry.Nick Otto/Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
We hated all those lists of the weirdest places in SF. So we made our own.
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San Francisco is a weird city. Built on the backs of 300,000 adventurers, speculators and grifters seeking gold, it’s probably no surprise that the city has always inhabited a space on the edge of American life.
Walking the city today there are a hundred spots of intrigue that tell stories of its bizarre past, but they’re not always easy to find.
Searching Google for a list of “the weirdest things in San Francisco” yields some pretty tired results (sorry wave organ and pretty staircases), so we decided to make our own.
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The secrets of the San Francisco Columbarium
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The Columbarium, 1 Loraine Court, San Francisco.Andrew Chamings
Most Bay Area folk know the oft-repeated fact that the Colma has more dead bodies than living ones it s true and it s not even close. The town, formed in 1924 as one of America s only necropolises, has a living population of about 1,700, but entombs about 1.5 million bodies.
The reason that the little town a few miles south of San Francisco is one big graveyard is the mass (and pretty gruesome) movement of bodies that occurred a century ago.
But one beautiful building in San Francisco, hidden down the end of a dead end street just north of Golden Gate Park, still stands as a vestige to a time when the city was covered in graves.