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.
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Roberta White is the first to tell you, her husband did not live life like most people.
When she first met Rob, he was living in a warehouse, where he made the elaborate paper mâché sculptures that he crafted throughout his life.
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“We didn’t even have a kitchen,” she said with a laugh. “It wasn’t like a nice loft warehouse. I mean, it was an industrial warehouse on the south side (of Edmonton).”
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EDMONTON Search and rescue crews have been unable to find the body of a 55-year-old man who fell through river ice in west Edmonton Tuesday. It happened near the Buena Vista Park off-leash area just north of Laurier Park and the Edmonton Valley Zoo. Witnesses said the man rushed out onto the North Saskatchewan River ice around 12:30 p.m. to help a stranger retrieve her dog. “He made it to the dog, tried pulling the dog up. He was probably 50 feet out into open water and the dog struggled and the ice broke. The man got swept under, he popped up a couple times, that’s the last time we saw him,” Monica Ness told CTV News Edmonton at the scene.
EDMONTON Search and rescue crews have been unable to find the body of a 55-year-old man who fell through river ice in west Edmonton Tuesday. It happened near the Buena Vista Park off-leash area just north of Laurier Park and the Edmonton Valley Zoo. Witnesses said the man rushed out onto the North Saskatchewan River ice around 12:30 p.m. to help a stranger retrieve her dog. “He made it to the dog, tried pulling the dog up. He was probably 50 feet out into open water and the dog struggled and the ice broke. The man got swept under, he popped up a couple times, that’s the last time we saw him,” Monica Ness told CTV News Edmonton at the scene.