Dunes or Dump?

Unfinished History

33rd and Pacheco Nov 22, 1943 wnp26.018.jpg

33rd and Pacheco, Nov. 22, 1943.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp26.018

Sunset$sunset-1951.jpg

Ortega and Sunset, c. 1951

Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

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Sagamore and Orizaba, c. 1956

Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

Public Health officials campaigned to end the common habit of dumping household garbage in the dunes of the western and southern areas of San Francisco.

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