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Looks like I need to get up to the city before the sands shift again.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 1OUK8J.DTL

So when this young woman's grave was moved, didn't they mark it at all?

The article said the families had to pay to move the tombstones in 1937, and if they didn't pay, the stones got used as landfill. I guess, in the 1930s, many families were impoverished due to the Depression. That just doesn't seem right somehow. She had been dead less than 50 years, and her family must have paid a lot for her original tombstone. There could easily have been people alive then who still remembered her.

One of the eeriest images I ever saw was on TV, when they were building the New Globe Theater in London, back in the early '90s. They uncovered a graveyard from the time of the Black Death, and there was an aerial view, rows and rows of skeletons. I don't know what they did with them all. I can understand moving a cemetery that old, but these cemeteries in San Francisco weren't really old at all.

Yeah, it was very eerie to see. It really brought home the horror of the Black Death. Also it was a memento mori---made you realize that someday, we are all going to look like that to someone else. So hard to believe it. Not hard intellectually, but hard psychologically somehow, really to grasp it.

The people in London must have been buried without coffins, maybe just wrapped in shrouds, which had disintegrated with time.

San Francisco is crazy people mainly and the houses are really expensive. It is around a million US for a moderate house in a low crime area.

I could never afford to live there, but I have always said it is one of the three most beautiful places I have seen with my own eyes--the other two being Acapulco, Mexico, and Salzburg, Austria.