Edsel Ford Fong Was A San Francisco Sensation For Being “The World’s Rudest Waiter”

from Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson · host Brady Carlson

Today in 1927, the birthday of Edsel Ford Fong, who became an institution in San Francisco’s Chinatown. People said he was the rudest waiter in the world… and they loved him for it (!) Plus: a new installation at a modern art museum in Berlin lets visitors build with hundreds of thousands of wooden blocks. Memories, anecdotes and snippets through time of Sam Wo (SFGate.com via Archive.org) Lina Lapelytė Fills Hamburger Bahnhof with 400,000 Wood Blocks for Communal Building (Colossal)It would be very nice of you to back our show on Patreon

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