Victorian home strikes by the streets of San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – FEBRUARY 21: Movers drive the wrong way down Franklin Street with a 139-year-old Victorian home being relocated, Sunday morning, Feb. 21, 2021, to a new address one half mile away on Fulton Street in San Francisco, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)

As San Francisco chase scenes go, this one certainly wasn’t the fastest.

But what it lacked in speed was made up in curiosity factor.

Starting before dawn Sunday, hundreds of sightseers with cameras and cell phones, chased a 139-year old, two-story Victorian house through the streets of San Francisco on a four hour, half-mile trek that seemed like a West Coast Mardi Gras parade.

Police used loudspeakers to caution the crowd, “People, please get back on the sidewalk. There’s a house coming down the street.”