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Incinerator Demolition May 2, 1933

15th and De Haro, View southwest toward the demolition of the Mission Creek incinerator. The 204 foot incinerator, built 1897, was demolished with 24 charges of dynamite. The case of champagne supposedly entombed in the cornerstone was not found. Brick buildings at 15th and Rhode Island in background. smokestack chimney
Photographer Unknown (Emiliano Echeverria/Randolph Brandt Collection / Courtesy of Emiliano Echeverria)

Incinerator Demolition Incinerator Demolition

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