Flutterby™! : Historic Laundromat

Among the many reasons housing in California is so expensive: The strange and terrible saga of San Francisco’s ‘historic laundromat’ represents the worst of planning and development in this town

“The historians did a wonderful job. I only wish they had a more worthy subject,” Tillman says. When they came to him and told him the study — which the city in February mandated he undertake — would cost twice as much as he’d counted on, he claims his response was magnanimous: “Eh. Historians gotta eat, too.”