Seen In San Francisco: A Novel Way To Clean Up This City

Joe Eskenazi

​"I'm gonna clean up this city," was growing to be a hackneyed phrase even in the days when city residents were hop-scotching over mounds of horse shit as a matter of course. But cleaning and drying the city? That'd still be a fairly novel thing to do.

Sighting appliances littering city streets is hardly noteworthy. Yet this washer-dryer combo was spotted in the counter-intuitive locale of Van Ness and Oak -- not exactly a residential hub, and a well-traversed thoroughfare where the sight of people dumping several hundred pounds of detritus might raise some eyebrows.

Or, perhaps, this isn't a dumped appliance at all. Maybe it's one of those tiny condos we've read so much about -- a duplex, no less. Is this what you get for $199,000 in the city these days? It is a prime location. And we hear it has a washer-dryer hookup. 



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