Dunes or Dump?

Unfinished History

Public Health officials campaigned after WWII 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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33rd and Pacheco, Nov. 22, 1943.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp26.018

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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

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41st Avenue, c. 1951

Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA

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