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The S.F. mansion that made waves
In 1962, developers shipped a Pacific Heights mansion across the bay. It was a bold move to create denser San Francisco housing. There was no sequel.
The S.F. mansion that made waves
In 1962, developers shipped a Pacific Heights mansion across the bay. It was a bold move to create denser San Francisco housing. There was no sequel.
It looked like a surreal scene from a Pixar film, more than three decades before Pixar films existed.
A Pacific Heights mansion, chain-sawed into two 85-ton pieces, was rolled through several city blocks and then shipped across the bay on a barge to a new home in Belvedere. It was a refugee of a changing San Francisco, captured in 1962 by Chronicle photographers as it floated away from Coit Tower, Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge.
There’s a good chance the new Democrat-controlled government in Washington will pass a $435 billion economic justice bill called S5065. Significant to the Bay Area: it includes a $10-billion pilot program aimed at helping communities tear down urban highways.
That could finally push forward some long-sought freeway dismantling in the Bay Area. “The rest of the Central Freeway and the northern end of I-280 are reaching the end of their useful lives, and ought to be removed,” wrote Livable City’s Tom Radulovich, in an email to Streetsblog. “It would be a shame if San Francisco didn’t receive some of the proposed federal grants to do so sooner rather than later.”