Big Alma helped commission one of the most beautiful museums in San Francisco.
San Francisco socialite Alma de Bretteville Spreckels enjoys a cup of tea in the salon of her Washington Street mansion, circa 1960.courtroom when Klondike millionaire Charles Anderson took the stand.
“He told me he wished me to become his wife,” a downtrodden de Bretteville told the jury the day before. “I promised to become his wife.” So begins the story of Alma de Bretteville, who became one of the city’s prominent philanthropists and the recent inspiration behind a San Francisco pop-up, But Anderson had a different recollection of their fling. It was his assertion that de Bretteville pursued him, even when it came to their first kiss. He told jurors that while they were on a drive, she leaned in to steal a kiss, which he said caught him by surprise. The second time she kissed him, Anderson contended he couldn't avoid her advances because she was 6 feet tall — a towering figure compared to him.
“When he gave it to her, she put it on her finger, and holding it up to the light in a transport of joy, said: ‘Ain't it grand?’ ‘It ought to be, it cost enough,’ was Anderson’s reply,” the Call reported.
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