Hail Norton! San Francisco's Original Lunatic Honored By Band of Drunken Lunatics
By Joe Eskenazi in Local News
Monday, Jan. 12 2009 @ 5:59AM
If you're not so sunny, you could say the onetime speculator turned madman was the first fellow to establish San Francisco's tradition of turning a blind eye to the loud, disruptive, and mentally ill.
Either way, celebrating the man's memory is a great excuse to drink and smoke stogies at 10:30 in the morning. On Saturday, the loyal members of E Clampus Vitus -- a San Francisco-founded fraternal order of men with a fondness for drink, Western history, and peculiar attire -- gathered at Norton's final resting place in Colma to honor the City's original lunatic.
Click here for a slideshow of the 30th annual Norton Day.





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