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Your chance to own Jerry Garcia’s toilet
The Grateful Dead singer’s appliances to be auctioned off for charity
 Toby Talbot / AP A nonprofit group hopes to raise more than $100,000 when it auctions a subzero degree freezer, stereo cabinets and other home appliances that once belonged to Jerry Garcia, lead guitarist of the rock band The Grateful Dead. |
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SAN FRANCISCO - Jerry Garcia’s dishwasher, toilets and other home appliances will be auctioned by a nonprofit group hoping to raise more than $100,000.
The items, which also include stereo cabinets, cupboards and a freezer, will be available for bidding on the online auction site eBay from Dec. 18 through Dec. 24.
Revenue will benefit the Sophia Foundation, a San Francisco Bay area nonprofit that aids children and families during marital separations and divorces, said the group’s chairman, Henry Koltys.
Koltys bought the Nicasio, Calif. home of Garcia, the lead singer and guitarist of the Grateful Dead, in 1997, two years after Garcia died of a heart attack.
An appraiser has valued the items at about $75,000, but Koltys said he expects people will end up spending more.
“There’s a lot of Deadheads out there with money, and they want a piece of Jerry somehow.”
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