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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She was the biggest fan of San Francisco s firefighters and California s most original woman
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Lillie Hitchcock Coit was a great fan of both San Francisco and its firefighters.San Francisco Public LibraryShow MoreShow Less
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Coit Tower was built in atop Telegraph Hill in 1933 at the bequest of Lillie Hitchcock Coit, to beautify the city and pay tribute to its firefighters.Lance Iversen/The Chronicle 2008Show MoreShow Less
The biggest fan of early San Francisco’s celebrated volunteer firefighters, and one of the great free spirits in the city’s history, was a transplanted Southern belle named Lillie Hitchcock Coit.