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''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
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Nobby Clarke's Folly, at the corner of Douglass and Caselli in [[Living on the Slopes| upper Eureka Valley]], built on a 30-acre spread in 1892. Nobby Clarke got his money as clerk to the Police Chief during the first decades of San Francisco's urban existence.
Nobby Clarke's Folly, at the corner of Douglass and Caselli in [[Living on the Slopes| upper Eureka Valley]], built on a 30-acre spread in 1892. [[Alfred "Nobby" Clarke: The Police Department's 'Emperor Norton'|Nobby Clarke]] got his money as clerk to the Police Chief during the first decades of San Francisco's urban existence.


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'''Nobby Clarke's Folly #2'''
'''Nobby Clarke's Folly #2'''


''Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA''
''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA''


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Latest revision as of 14:07, 16 June 2014

Unfinished History

Castro1$nobby-clarke s-folly-present.jpg

Nobby Clarke's Folly in the 1990s

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Nobby Clarke's Folly, at the corner of Douglass and Caselli in upper Eureka Valley, built on a 30-acre spread in 1892. Nobby Clarke got his money as clerk to the Police Chief during the first decades of San Francisco's urban existence.

Castro1$nobby-clarke s-folly--1.jpg

Nobby Clarke's Folly early view

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Nobby Clarke's Folly #2

Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA

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