The annual pre-Valentine’s Day custom of 400-pound, six-foot-wide hearts showing up in SF beats on for its 21st year, but don’t get your heart set on a big display, because there aren’t that many of them this year.
It’s a San Francisco Valentine’s Day tradition that not long before February 14, the beloved 400-pound, five-foot-tall Hearts in San Francisco are put on public display in the city. Last year they started a little early by putting the hearts out on January 8, and that heart display at the Ferry Building also featured a heart made of 88,000 Lego bricks plus another that had previously belonged to Robin Williams.
On Monday, the 2025 Hearts in SF were also unveiled at the Ferry Building, all of them up for auction in a benefit for the SF General Hospital Foundation.
But wait, are there only two of those jumbo, 400-pound hearts among this year’s crop? After all, there were eight large hearts in 2024, six of them in 2023, and four of them in 2022. Have they just not installed the rest of them yet?…