Lol @ This ‘Tiny Toilet’ That Looks Like a Painted Lady Stopping Traffic on the Bay Bridge

It was, in fact, not a tiny house, after all

Matt Charnock
2 min readJul 21, 2022
Photo: Courtesy of Getty Images via bluejayphoto

Yesterday, July 20th, a strange scene played out on the Bay Bridge: a tiny house became detached from its trailer hitch, stopping traffic on the far left lane of the bridge between San Francisco and Treasure Island.

It was an iPhone-unholstering sight to begin with — seeing a tiny house, which has grown in popularity since the early 2010s — but a closer look at it revealed the diminutive structure was constructed to look like one of San Francisco’s famous Painted Ladies. That’s just fucking wild.

KCBS Radio was first to report on the odd scene, waxing on the fact that “there [was] a tiny house that fell off a trailer” yesterday afternoon, leaving the traffic to just a crawl through “#SanFrancisco on northbound 101 and eastbound 80.”

(At first glance, I immediately thought the tiny home was perhaps en route to Northern California’s only [legal)] tiny-home community — Delta Bay. At…

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Matt Charnock

SF transplant, coffee shop frequent; tiny living enthusiast. iPhone hasn’t been off silent mode in nine or so years. Former EIC of The Bold Italic.