SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Emperor Norton Bar Buys Emperor Norton Bond, Which Is Worth $15,000 The proprietor of Emperor Norton’s Boozeland stumbled upon a Norton-signed promissory note that’s worth a fortune, though its 1878 face value is “fifty cents.”
Arts & Entertainment The Story Of Emperor Norton, SF's First Icon and Greatest Eccentric, On The 137th Anniversary Of His Death You’ve perhaps heard during your Bay Area residency the occasional passing reference to an “Emperor Norton”, some foppish, overdressed, Victorian-era kook whose legacy we are apparently supposed to respect. Why? Why is
