SF custom of naming streets, landmarks has always been complicated




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Summary: It was only the last paragraph in Willie Brown’s column last Sunday, but it stirred up more dust than the great San Francisco earthquake. After a long discussion of other topics, Brown praised the late Mayor Ed Lee, who had a role in restoring the historic Lotta’s Fountain at Kearny, Market and Geary streets, and then wrote: “We are going to rename it after the late mayor .