


We have to preserve them.”Įven the developer wants to preserve them. “I get choked up when I talk about these shacks,” he said, standing in front of the yellow-painted shacks, gazing at them like they were precious artifacts in a showroom.

“They helped the working class have their first homes way back then, they represent the resilience of San Francisco, and today there are so very few of them left. “The history is what this is all about,” said John Blackburn, a retired private investigator who is one of the city’s premier quake shack historians.
