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UNICEF’s Tap Project Draws Attention to World Water Week, March 22-29, 2009
TweetThe people from UNICEF’s Tap Project were getting the word out yesterday at the hideous Vaillancourt Fountain (aka Québec libre!) yesterday in Justin Herman Plaza. (Tap water is just fine in San...
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Is It Really Worth $1000 a Day to Pump the Water of Vaillancourt Fountain?
TweetWhat makes the water in Vaillancourt Fountain (aka Québec libre !), that boxy water sculpture down in Justin Herman Plaza, go? Natural gas, most likely. All that methane energy gets converted into...
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When Oh When Will San Francisco Be Rid of Vaillancourt Fountain? It Riffs Off...
TweetVaillancourt Fountain was a comment on its former neighbor, the Embarcadero Freeway. But the freeway is all gone, so why are we still stuck with the fountain? Remember when SFGov shut down this...
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A Freeway is Easy to Tear Down, But Hideous Art What Used to Riff on the Same...
TweetHere you go: “When Vaillancourt designed the fountain, the Embarcadero Freeway or Interstate 480, was still in existence along Market Street and the Embarcadero. The fountain was designed with the...
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Canada Reclaims Our Hideous Vaillancourt Fountain on Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day...
TweetHere you go, this was the scene at Justin Herman Plaza last week: And here’s the explanation, but I’ve flipped the image so that the English part comes first, ’cause ‘Mericah: (I’ve already said...
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What Color Would the Water of Our Vaillancourt Fountain be If It Weren’t Dyed...
TweetAh, August 2017, before the blue, the phathomless blue: This shot is from @JKBartleby, who sez: “What should we do about the Vaillancourt Fountain?” “Clean it?” “Nah.” “Run water through it...
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