The Emperor Norton Trust is pleased to announce that the San Francisco History Association has submitted to the California state legislature a letter in support of Senate Concurrent Resolution 193. This resolution, introduced earlier this week by California State Senator Scott Wiener, would designate the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge tunnel through Yerba Buena Island, S.F., as the EMPEROR NORTON TUNNEL.
The Emperor Norton Trust is the citizen sponsor of SCR 193.
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In 1934, Emperor Norton was reburied at Woodlawn cemetery, in Colma, Calif., with a new rose granite headstone featuring an inscription whose deeply engraved letters and numbers were hand-gilded with real gold leaf.
It appears that the gilding lasted for several decades. But, eventually, the “illumination” wore off and the inscription mostly was bare, except for the faintest traces of gold and noticeable spots of mossy green film borne of the stone’s years-long exposure to sea air.
The stone still looked this way until very recently. But, in May 2021, Woodlawn quietly brought the inscription back to life.
Includes photo-documentation of the Emperor’s headstone in 1934, 1989/90, 2016, 2019 and today.
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On Saturday 9 July 2016, the San Francisco History Association held its 18th Annual Awards Dinner at the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club on Washington Square. At the Dinner, the Association presented The Emperor's Bridge Campaign with its 2016 Ron Ross Founder's Award, which is "given each year to a person, group of people or organization for performing an impressive undertaking that support's San Francisco history."
What follows are the acceptance remarks offered at the Dinner by Campaign founder and president John Lumea.
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The Emperor's Bridge Campaign is delighted and honored to announce that the San Francisco History Association has selected the Campaign to receive the Ron Ross Founder's Award for 2016.
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