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Photo Id# AAD-3571
Title [Two children playing in a small pond near the U. S. Mint building at Market, Buchanan and Duboce streets] [graphic].
Date 1951 Jan. 23.
Description 1 photographic print : b&w. ; 8 x 10 in.
Location Folder: S.F. Mint-New-Exterior.
Reproduction Rights Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Notes Newscopy: "Late last November, Mr. Fixit of The News visited Duboce-av and Market-st and reported condition of the excavation left when work was abandoned on Winterland Corp.'s proposed sports palace. It was six feet deep with water then. Yesterday Mr. Fixit's cameraman went back again and here's what he found - kids playing on makeshift rafts in water still some feet deep and a potential death trap. Holes in the surrounding fence provide entry to the excavation and teachers at nearby John Muir School report youngsters come to school sopping wet from their play in the shadow of the U. S. Mint. Mr. Fixit's wondering whether the owners, or the Department of Public Works, shouldn't pump the place dry before it's necessary to start a search for the body of some unfortunate youngster."
Subject Buildings -- California -- San Francisco.
Buildings -- Mint -- New.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Series San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Source San Francisco News-Call Bulletin.
San Francisco News.