- City:
- San Francisco, CA
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
(10.48 Acres) 26th and Douglass Streets. Excavated and removed 5,700 cubic yards of loose rock, constructed a rubble masonry wall and faced 12,000 square feet of slope with rubble masonry; installed 3,500 pipe feet of irrigation system and 475 feet of drainage system; erected 1,550 lineal feet of chain link fence, a standard convenience station; spread loam and planted 130,000 ice plants; built ball field and irrigation system. This is an example of what a city can do with worthless, abandoned quarry.–Healy, p. 62.
Source notes
Healy, Clyde E. San Francisco Improved: Report of Clyde E. Healy, Assistant City Engineer - City of San Francisco and Coordinator of W.P.A. Projects, Period October 10, 1935 to August 31, 1939. San Francisco : [s.n.]., 1939. United States. Work Projects Administration (Calif.) Report on Progress of the Works Program in San Francisco. January, 1938. Works Progress Administration / William Mooser, Jr., branch manager. [San Francisco? 1938]Site Details
| Total Cost |
|---|
| $86,432.00 |
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