Hello, there.
Life-affirming and positive things have happened on countless September 11ths — including the one in 2001.
Likewise with January 6ths past.
For example: It was 154 years ago today — 6 January 1872 — that the Black-owned Pacific Appeal newspaper published the first of Emperor Norton's three "bridge Proclamations" of that year, in which the Emperor — all three times — insisted on Yerba Buena Island (Goat Island) as the pivot of a bay-spanning bridge linking Oakland and San Francisco.
This makes it entirely appropriate for the California state legislature to honor The Emperor Norton Trust's proposal to name the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge tunnel through Yerba Buena Island the
EMPEROR NORTON TUNNEL
in 2026: the 90th anniversary of both the bridge and the tunnel that made — and makes — the bridge possible.
The Trust soft-launched this proposal in August 2025. If you've yet to tune in...
Click the "Proposal" button at
Cheers — and Happy New Year!
JOHN LUMEA
The Emperor Norton Trust