Marian Brown, one half of San Francisco's best-known set of twins, has died.
The Brown twins cheerfully walked the city in matching outfits over five decades.
Last year, Vivian Brown died. Thursday, her sister, Marian, died at a San Mateo hospice.
Marian was 87 years old.
“The one thing that caught my eye was how well dressed they always were,” Sir Francis Drake Hotel doorman Laban Wade said last year, when Vivian died.
The sisters were known for walking the Union Square streets, together, decked out in fashionable matching outfits, greeting visitors and locals with unison hellos.
The twins often appeared in advertisements and commercials, serving as unofficial ambassadors for the City by the Bay.
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The late San Francisco columnist Herb Caen often mentioned the twins in his column, bestowing on them the kind of status reserved for the most revered icons.
Following the death of Vivian Brown, NBC Bay Area’s Joe Rosato Jr. reported a picture of the twins was taped to the window of Uncle Vito’s pizza on Nob Hill, where the Brown sisters dined nightly on twin pizza slices and red wine. Workers in the pizzeria said Marian Brown continued to dine there without her sister.
Joe Rosato Jr. contributed to this report.
