Dunes or Dump?

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Sagamore and Orizaba, c. 1956

Public Health officials campaigned relentlessly in the 1950s 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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Ortega and Sunset, c. 1951

Photos: San Francisco History Room, San Francisco Public Library

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