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.
33rd and Pacheco, Nov. 22, 1943.
Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp26.018
Ortega and Sunset, c. 1951
Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
Sagamore and Orizaba, c. 1956
Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
41st Avenue, c. 1951
Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA