Historic San Francisco Victorian Home's Sunday Jaunt Amazes Onlookers

After almost 140 years at 807 Franklin St. in San Francisco, a two-story Victorian house has a new address. John Ramos reports. (2-21-21)

[@donlee.4308]

The Truck Driver is the real hero of this story.

[@SpockvsMcCoy]

I praise the original architect!

[@mjfreespirit]

No. The truck driver wasn't the only hero. Every single person involved in that move was the hero. You must understand in an operation like that, you have multiple drivers. One is sitting behind the wheel, yes. But others have remote controls that control all those independently operated dollies. A team like this would be no less than a minimum of four licensed drivers.

[@amoxintubeu]

Hopefully, they secure the house properly at the new place, so it will not be stolen.

[@rxonmymind8362]

Got that covered. Kryptonite lock. 😁

[@paulfrank4551]

Haha 😃

[@aatt3209]

I love Victorian houses, thank you for preserving them.

[@jonnyfendi2003]

They can move an entire house but can’t budge the homeless. Ironic

[@notaspy1227]

Lol as a resident the house is more willing, though this was a nice pep to the year.

[@Esrom_music]

Interesting. Sure sounds like you want them swept away rather than houses.

[@rxonmymind8362]

@@Esrom_music They contribute NOTHING. Only suck tax dollars from us. IF they wanted help they would get it. I've asked on numerous occasions if they wanted food. No. Work. No. Only money for a .40oz of beer.

[@TimoBurns]

Send the homeless to Slab City

[@MSaleh-vy8rr]

😭😭😭 bruh I’m weak.

[@christiangonzalez7575]

I say goodnight to the house 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Cozy1123]

I hope he doesn’t become a meme

[@brianp5205]

Typical SF lying clown.

[@MaggotMuseum]

I was waiting for this comment lol.

[@laker4life36]

This sort of reminds me of the space shuttle moving through the streets of Los Angeles in 2012!

[@Wild_D]

YES

[@Snsnsnxbn]

Holy shit I remember that. That so amazing too😂

[@b.l.8611]

So glad the house was preserved!

[@ladycharsw]

Love these old houses. God Bless. Thanks for saving Abit of History 👍.😁❤️🙋 Charlotte in Oregon.

[@jsEMCsquared]

Many years ago in Berkeley they moved a Victorian house straight down University Avenue now that was cool

[@peace.404]

The house looks haunted...fitting for being paired with a friggin mortuary 👀

[@riostark3983]

Afterwards it will become a hot tourism!

[@RaymondHng]

I've been inside that house over 15 years ago.

[@paintingworlds]

No credit to Phil Joy and his mover workers who pulled off this amazing feat. Please honor the workers.

[@libbyrossknecht]

Thank you! I was wondering who completed this impressive move, and surprised absolutely none of the news articles mentioned the responsible contractor.

[@brittanyblackwell9082]

My husband was one of them! Thank you

[@AprilMartinChartrandMS]

Hats off to Phil Joy House Movers and Scott House Movers who did this historic move + all the other public works folks. I was there at 8am and stayed will 10:30ish. It was a brilliant experience. The men who were there to set this up and then take it down these streets and turning about and more... it was just a once in a life time experience for me and others.

[@scallaghan2118]

That truck driver deserves a medal!

[@sarabeth8050]

Heard in the crowd, "Damn RVs are getting too big".

[@yehuo2825]

This reminds me of moving one of the historic house in Shanghai in 2013 just to make sure history will not be forgotten.

[@DUNGSI27]

Im glad they care about history

[@yehuo2825]

@@DUNGSI27 Yeah! I am very surprise how much China has changed and how fast grew! It is kinda scary and amazing! What surprised me the most was that China used 5 years times to alleviate 100M+ people out of poverty. Xi Jinping said, No one gets left behind, otherwise, China cannot move forward. Right now, they are going to use the next 5 years to help the people stabilize their growth, so they do not fall behind. Surprisingly Xinjiang has the largest growth in the last 5 years, but western medias always reported genocide, which I only saw happiness and joy everywhere unlike in the USA with all the homeless. In fact, one of the reported concentration camp is actually a vocation school to help the locals, so they do not fall back into poverty.

[@Kush-rb9xr]

@@DUNGSI27 the same here but I'll ask her number

[@laker4life36]

Reminds me of the space shuttle moving through the streets of Los Angeles in 2012

[@oceaniccurrents]

How are you going to compare a pink triangle to moving a house?

[@anti-social6368]

Exactly what I thought.😳

[@Larry_Alvarez]

So they can move a old Victorian home but can't solve a homeless crisis in the city

[@mistymaria2414]

He doesn’t own the city.. just the home.

[@707Iz]

Notice how they used money on the appropriate solution for the problem

[@agolftweetler3995]

Common Sense would tell you moving a home is a lot easier. You'll probably be homeless before along with that kind of smooth brain operation

[@Alexandra-xt1vf]

Agreed. I thought the same thing

[@eliteaesthetics5170]

do you realize every dollar spent by government comes from someone else? So unless you have provided for the homeless, you are really just whining with nothing to offer, and who has yet to offer anything to help the homeless crisis in the city. basically you are saying "hey look, that guy has enough money to do that, i think he should spend his money on the homeless crisis". the fact you think you have done any form of activism by making your snide remark, is the real crisis. if you want to fix homelessness, get up, work extra hard for some extra money, and share it with the people who need it. Yelling "Somebody, Do Something!" is not activism.

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

I used to pass by this house all the time which was abandoned, condemned surrounded by a bare lot looking haunted. I always dreamed that if I stuck it rich, I’d buy the lot and live inside.

[@RaymondHng]

I was inside that house over 15 years ago for a private recital.

[@dimi_sf]

Great job!!!! So many things could gone wrong with that move..... especially moving down the hill.

[@pingyen5186]

There a lot victorian houses in city, too much work to keep 1, but they removed Sea Cliff restaurant which only 1 on the sea cliff & they been there since 1879.

[@RaymondHng]

It was not removed. It was closed permanently. The structure is still there.

[@Inspectorratchet415]

2:35 this is sports for old rich people

[@joysoyo2416]

It is such a beautiful home!

[@zachvults1132]

I once grew up by an old village with a trolley on the main Street. It's always the old fashioned that gives that different fantasy. Que no.

[@DarkStarAZ]

Ladies and gentlemen, for their next trick they will move a Victorian House down Lombard Street!

[@TudorOwen50s]

Oops! I meant 708 Franklin! You don't suppose you could....

[@bartonpercival2147]

The City loves its history??????? Hummm, let’s ask The Fox Theatre or Playland at the Beach how much love it got from the City!!!!!!!!

[@RaymondHng]

The movement to preserve historical buildings started after the demolition of the Fox Theater in San Francisco and the original Penn Station in New York City. Unfortunately, there had to be sacrificial lambs in order to start such movements.

[@bartonpercival2147]

@@RaymondHng Yup, but New York in 1968 got the New Madison Square Garden as a replacement, San Francisco got that gosh awful ugly civic center office complex

[@RaymondHng]

@@bartonpercival2147 The airspace above the station became Madison Square Garden. The replacement Penn Station under MSG is ugly. As architectural professor Vincent Scully once said: “Through Pennsylvania Station one entered the city like a god. Perhaps it was really too much. One scuttles in now like a rat.”

[@TeslaBoy123]

Every home is unique great job to keep a real home built 120 years ago 👍👍👍

[@toyajackson556]

Reminds me of that Daniel Day Lewis movie, "There Will be blood" but there were workers/peasants dragging it - No Truck! One of my childhood homes in Berkeley was relocated this way. It is now apartments & a laundry mat.

[@jonmacdonald5345]

Reminds me of an episode of Bob's Burgers I can see this on the show hahaha

[@Art_Padilla_III]

That’s so huge!! 😯

[@kerrylondon8631]

👑 🏡 Love This Home 💎 🔨 💘

[@maxorloff1641]

Mr. Fredericksen forgot to use balloons to move his house!! 🤣🤣🤭

[@westwild75]

WHAT !! ANCHOR MAN YOU DID NOT TALK TO THE TRUCK DRIVER...

[@Vintagetube310]

I live by that house ( used too). I never noticed it until today, when I had to move my car to park. oh well.

[@josemaldonado4861]

Look like the charmed house

[@happyraccoon4791]

A lovely tiny home for 150 of Frisco's finest.

[@wood8715]

So cool!!!

[@frankwetch2645]

only in sf baby !!!! I love you Bay Area

[@Sirius39170]

Who the hell has the money to do this right now?

[@user-ti2xi9bd4u]

The moving castle 😂 that Japanese anime movie

[@myobmyob2215]

So the cost to move a one story house 10 feet is probably what folks want to really know

[@joeywho534]

Did they get the squatters our first?

[@caliboy9852]

Truck driver gott BARSSS

[@interference7480]

I'd like to see it being placed into its new location... most of the videos end before that happens

[@Gentlesounds20]

I would have more anxiety than I would enjoy watching this

[@conorwinnie]

So cool..

[@davidho9238]

Wow, $400k to move a house... it is a lot cheaper to take it down.

[@RaymondHng]

No, the developer will earn a lot more after they turn it into an eight-story 48-unit apartment at its new location six blocks away.

[@luis350z]

This is like the intro scene on Monty Python's movie 'The Meaning of Life"

[@anaisgourdin3885]

Together with a former mortuary building?!

[@spankyharland9845]

next time call Dr. Hank Pym and he will shrink it down to size, put it in his pocket and walk it over to the new location.

[@mcleanblades9234]

17 new housing units for the city? What?

[@cindaflame]

Hurrah for the move!! And Hurrah for EVERYONE who kept their masks on! So impressed. I would say...only in the City..but..wow. the new owner will probably get dinged for all the signage they had to bring down too...

[@troysierra5228]

With so much city defacement by homeless and graffiti taggers. This small street signage should be nothing.

[@RaymondHng]

The signage removal costs were part of the $200,000 in fees paid.

[@user-ng3op3yr5i]

Невозможно смотреть. Кадры мелькают и ничего непонятно, что происходит. Неужели нельзя было снять видео, как полагается? Чтобы было четко и ясно понятно, как движется дом.

[@FILNAT2011]

Should have that mission in snowrunner

[@mysticalissa]

Check out Phil Joy's other moves on KZbin. They load a Victorian onto a barge. I believe there are also pics of of them moving a submarine. Save a tree, move a house!

[@sanbruno3606]

CLEAN, SOBER, HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS CALIFORNIA

[@michaelboccino5251]

What About All the Poo and Needles on the Streets

[@Ken-jw4xk]

Must be nice to have money

[@RealTalk532]

Yep with nice high tax to pay every year too

[@Alexandra-xt1vf]

@@RealTalk532 Don't worry wealthy people have accountants and lawyers who know all the loopholes. Moving the historic property is probably a tax right off

[@eliteaesthetics5170]

@@Alexandra-xt1vf lol have you ever actually dealt with a lawyer or accountant in a professional setting??? I can always tell the people who have no idea what they are talking about, because its always rife with slogans like " Don't worry wealthy people have accountants and lawyers who know all the loopholes. Moving the historic property is probably a tax right off". Lol i feel like you just watched the office or something and think that's what the work world is. Accountants and lawyers are extremely expensive, and most wealthy people cant afford a rough lawsuit. the "wealthy" world you imagine is quite literally that, imagined. please go to school

[@Alexandra-xt1vf]

@@eliteaesthetics5170 Your internet name is an apt moniker. I wholeheartedly agree with it👌🤣

[@RaymondHng]

@@Alexandra-xt1vf Actually, the expense of the move is subtracted only when the property is sold again.

[@hyphyfpv1331]

😂😂

[@mixedhairless]

🤩

[@RelaxzMV]

Wow. That's a rich move.

[@bnyang84]

If it ain't about the Tanner's house than I dont care.

[@HG-kc5ut]

That house is haunted forsure lol and combined with a mortuary ? Lol 😂

[@RaymondHng]

_Former_ mortuary.

[@Lion_McLionhead]

The 2nd empire strikes back.

[@sevenbeverly2568]

Girl: Come over Guy: I can't, I'm on house arrest Girl: I'm home alone ;) Guy: 1:56

[@stovetoppsteve]

life doesnt stop but there is so much more that that type of money could have been spent on.. i mean.. imagine takin that money and providing a couple of places in texas for people to eat, bathe in and drink fresh water.. maybe gas for the generators.. im no billionaire but most people are too stimulated by the vanity of all this. we need help.

[@tommydong8070]

Uhhh there are rich Texans who could help. I wouldn’t help those Texans.

[@pineappl3pizzzasoju]

there is no ending in providing financial help, you can gather all wealth in this planet and use it all up to aid the ones who needs them and still manage to find more people who needs financial help.

[@eliteaesthetics5170]

do you not see your flaw? you think youre beeing an activist. but youre not, youre being lazy. IF you want to help the poor, then go work harder and help them. I do, I love to give to charity, but only a self-absorbed and arrogant fool, sits down, believes themselves poor, then yells about how the rich spend their money. And worst of all, calls it activism and believes themselves a moral person for it. ridiculous

[@NairaSt]

Howls moving castle 😊😍

[@muzicaally7909]

Druggy San Francisco. Crazy show.

[@Happyland_Motel_Gamer_Cat]

1:01 The DayofSopihalight society - "She knows something...."

[@ronycamacho7132]

People are so weird.

[@briandoss8552]

I typed in "white privilege" and this is what came up👀

[@LuckyK7777]

Someone should replicate this as a rose parade float.

[@steveko8820]

Inception in real life.

[@fadedmoneyboy]

Now Fulton street is a bit more gentrified. Hopefully this home comes with a parking space for 17 more housing units in the area as well.

[@RaymondHng]

It will be an eight-story 48-unit apartment.

[@shawnmariucci9954]

They can do this but not clean all the poop up confusing

[@dumpling3309]

Up

[@jessers49]

So a rich person moved a big house to a more expensive part of the city? That’s dope

[@RaymondHng]

No, just six blocks away in the same neighborhood.

[@jessers49]

@@RaymondHng A lot of things change drastically within blocks in this city. Nonetheless It’s an impressive feat, but it’s still about money. It was nice to see the Chinese New Year special on the news and clips of the city I grew up in, the real city.

[@callmegorgeouos]

Historic building?? More like unsafe mobile home now. Should be put in with all other mobile home community. Not worth the price for unsafe/unstable property. If this house worth millions, all the other mobile/manufacturer house should be worth millions as well and not on the ten thousands

[@lorenagaribaydalba2876]

Was it worth it, no. I bet they’re just going to gut it and turn it into another plain, modern styled carcass. Why put so much effort into moving an already beautiful historical building if they’re going to drain it of its original charm? Just build something new and stop saying “wow! I love it’s old world charm, it has soooo much character, suuuperrrr cool vibes”, and then destroy the very thing you claimed to have “loved” in the first place.

[@shivamparmar9700]

$400,000?!?!? Or ya know that could’ve been donated to people during the pandemic

[@theviewer102]

Only if they would spend money to protect the tax paying and law abiding citizens....

[@roblee8390]

Ladies!!! I like it so much lol

[@mscstarz7151]

Wth who cares, it’s been empty all this time anyway.

[@creepysan]

He could have use that money to save lives instead moving house.... stupid idea

[@shredeliriumshreddelirium4049]

sanfran sucks so much even the houses want to move out

[@bartonpercival2147]

Ummmm, Fulton Street is still in San Francisco

[@alvinhirakawa128]

It's funny how fast the city workers showed up to trim trees and remove signs for transporting a house... but it takes months to years for the city to clean up the streets and figure out a solution for the homeless population. The priorities aren't in order... People love the "history" of SF so much that the city lost thousands of residents during the pandemic because they can't afford the overly priced rent and tight living spaces. The tech boom turned SF into a different city and it's slowly losing its history. Everything we consider historic is from decades past. In the future, I feel like the past 15-20 years will be looked at as the time SF turned into a money hungry city. I mean... look at the Salesforce Tower for example... they approved a huge building to change a historic skyline and now the offices in the building are practically empty because of the pandemic...The city saw the $400,000 price tag and didn't skip a beat...

[@RaymondHng]

It took years of planning to get to this stage of moving the house.

[@Phardy332]

What’s with the useless face masks ?

[@ropro9817]

Colossal waste of money.

[@cindaflame]

no...no...no it wasn't.

[@libbyrossknecht]

Maybe they had really bad neighbors.

[@kaosaeteurn3813]

I'm pretty sure the cost to move the house is just a fraction of what that house is worth in dollars.

[@libbyrossknecht]

The permit costs to build a new home versus doing a remodel alone would justify moving it.

[@cindaflame]

@@kaosaeteurn3813 That house probably would go for a few million. So yeah definitely worth it.