The Vaillancourt fountain, an enormous sculpture in place since the 1970s, has been equally reviled and revered<\/p>\n
It was a surreal, fitting end for one of San Francisco\u2019s most divisive public artworks: the Vaillancourt fountain, an enormous concrete sculpture looming over Embarcadero Plaza since the 1970s, had burst into flames.<\/p>\n
The hulking fountain\u2019s angled arms were being dismantled in early May after the city voted to potentially replace it with an open, grassy park \u2013 a decision mourned by skateboarders like myself, who argued the city was losing an important piece of its skate culture and architectural heritage.<\/p>\n
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