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Photo Id# AAB-3412
Title [Gasoline pump draining water from a lot on Market street and Duboce avenue] [graphic].
Date 1951 Jan. 27.
Description 1 photographic print : b&w.
Location Folder: S.F. Streets-Duboce Avenue.
Reproduction Rights Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Notes Newscopy: "Heavy-duty gasoline pump drains the last of a half million gallons of water from a potential drowning hole on a large vacant lot at Market-st and Duboce-av. Strangely enough, the water was pumped for three days from the four-foot deep 'lake' into the sewer on Reservoir-st. Mr. Fixit of The San Francisco News brought the dangerous situation to the attention of the Owl-Rexall Drug Co., owners of a 50-year lease on the property, after children began boating on the rainwater lake. The gray stone pit, formerly the site of the Farmers Market, is accessible to children as it is only partially fenced in. The company plans to fix the fence, too."
Subject Streets -- Duboce Avenue.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Series San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection