This story first appeared on KRON4.com May 9, 2022:
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – After she was widowed at the age of 59, Vickie Good’s mother Lurana Hoetger would commute into San Francisco from Sausalito by ferry until she reached her 80s.
“She just loved the city,” Good told KRON4. So much so that when the Golden Gate Bridge turned 50 years old in 1987, she bought 16 bricks to be laid in a walkway of the bridge’s visitor gardens. The bricks cost between $32 and $75, though plaques in the walkway went for up to $1,000.
Good just learned the final fate of her mother’s brick — and the other 7,500.
“She loved her kids and grandkids and this was her legacy,” Good said. “She thought, ‘If I put bricks here, my kids and grandkids could come see me.’”
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John Ferrannini 