Originally published at: In 1910, a Victorian house was moved using horse power in San Francisco - Boing Boing
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That looks creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky, and altogether ooky.
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If I saw a house being pulled by wild pigs I would find that more unreal than being pulled by horses.
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I figure you’d need about 30-50 feral hogs to move a house that size
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Reminds me of this follow-up short to Up!, where a bunch of other old coots are inspired to flee with their houses rather than get shipped off to the retirement home. Spoiler: a crazy cat lady has a herd of leashed cats drag her house away down the street.
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It looks like those poor horses are turning windlasses which means they have to step over the rope every rotation.
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I recently had the pleasure of watching my old 1980s party house and its neighbors drive down Speedway Boulevard in Tucson. The houses were moved to a lot a few blocks away to make room for a big high-rise student housing project. Nowadays they put the house on four hydraulic powered dollies, strap a big engine to the side of the house, and drive it using an iPad as a control panel. It’s still surreal.
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It is gorgeous, and would look quite at ahem home in our neighborhood, or a couple other of Detroit’s historic districts, Brush Park for one.
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