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'''Dolores Park after the 1906 quake; note the refugee tent camp.'''
'''Dolores Park after the 1906 quake; note the refugee tent camp.'''


''photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA''
''photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA''


At the top of the hill, at 20th and Church, stands the [[Golden Hydrant|fire hydrant]] that is thought to have saved the rest of the neighborhood, because its water continued to flow and helped douse the approaching fire.
At the top of the hill, at 20th and Church, stands the [[Golden Hydrant|fire hydrant]] that is thought to have saved the rest of the neighborhood, because its water continued to flow and helped douse the approaching fire.
[[Image:Quake-shacks-Dolores-Park1906.jpg]]
'''Within months these standardized earthquake relief [[Bernal Heights 1906 Quake Shack survivors|shacks]] filled most San Francisco parks.'''
''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA''


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Unfinished History

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Dolores Park after the 1906 quake; note the refugee tent camp.

photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA

At the top of the hill, at 20th and Church, stands the fire hydrant that is thought to have saved the rest of the neighborhood, because its water continued to flow and helped douse the approaching fire.

Quake-shacks-Dolores-Park1906.jpg

Within months these standardized earthquake relief shacks filled most San Francisco parks.

Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA

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