Grab Bag #37

These days, my age, sartorial inclinations, and posture have me looking like Luke, the Hotel Belvedere’s house detective in the Maltese Falcon:

Move along punk.

But rather than roust two-bit gunsels, I spend too much time being a different kind of house detective. Researching something else, I found mention in a 1922 article of an early San Francisco house built with lumber shipped around Cape Horn:

“The old Sullivan homes, which was located on Ellis street, where now stands the Century Theater [then between Powell and Stockton streets], was first moved to a location at Oak and Buchanan streets and was then moved to its present site at the corner of Baker and McAllister streets.”

A house from the Gold Rush days was still standing in 1922. Could it still be standing in 2024?