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The tabloids are reporting that it was
someone named Scott who came between Hugh (Grant)
and Elizabeth (Hurley).
This is actually true, though he did not cause their
breakup, and in fact he keeps them together to this
day. You can see for yourself at this place that was
once a house, but was never a home.
Ray Bradbury might be amused at the number
of the street address, given the occupation of the former
tenants. As for the street itself, it's peaceful and
quiet, and just north of two Presidents.
The burning question is:
What is the identity of the former
occupant of the house?
A search in the
business listings of the SF phone book would turn up
Grant Scott Hurley, an ad agency at 451 Pacific Avenue.
But, teams couldn't be expected to do that, so we gave
them a way to figure out the address from the rest of
the clue.
Name: Pacific
Avenue (peaceful & quiet, just north of Jackson
and Washington, streets named for two presidents).
Number: the clues
here were "burning question" and "Ray
Bradbury." Ray Bradbury was a science fiction author
who wrote Fahrenheit:451, a futuristic novel
about a society in which books are banned, and firemen
don't put out fires, they set them, to burn books and
enforce the totalitarian government's rules. 451 degrees
Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper burns.
Ironically, 451
Pacific is the site of a former firehouse in the Jackson
Square antiques district of San Francisco. This building
has a long history - it was owned by Howard
Gossage, a larger-than-life icon of 1960's advertising,
and one of San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen's
best friends. Herb Caen lived in this firehouse with
Gossage for a brief time when they were both bachelors.
Tragically, both
Howard Gossage and his wife died at relatively young
ages (Gossage of leukemia), leaving two children behind
- Eben.
and Amelia. Eben killed Amelia with a claw hammer when
she was 19 and he was 20. He went to prison for voluntary
manslaughter for several years, then went to law school,
graduated and passed the California bar exam, but was
denied permission to practise law in California. His
case was appealed all the way to the California Supreme
Court. I believe he still owns the firehouse at
451 Pacific, and is now a real estate developer in Marin.
Regular
The tabloids are reporting that it was
someone named Scott who came between Hugh and Elizabeth.
This is actually true, though he did not cause their
breakup, and in fact he keeps them together to this
day. You can see for yourself at this place that was
once a house, but was never a home.
Ray Bradbury might be amused at the number
of the street address, given the occupation of the former
tenants. As for the street itself, it's peaceful and
quiet.
The burning question is:
What is the identity of the former
occupant of the house?
Masters
The tabloids are reporting that it was
someone named Scott who came between Hugh and Elizabeth.
This is actually true, though he did not cause their
breakup, and in fact he keeps them together to this
day. You can see for yourself at this place that was
once a house, but was never a home.
Ray Bradbury might be amused at the number
of the street address, given the occupation of the former
tenants. As for the street itself, it's usually considered
peaceful.
The burning question is:
What is the identity of the former
occupant of the house?
