The Legend Of Bum
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Title: The Legend Of Bum
Published: Thu, 9 Apr 2009
Description: Dog Statue
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" Yeah as going to be a statue in this courtyard fourth an island and what distinguished figure from our long ago has been chosen to be cast in bronze. There you go -- thought. That's right. -- Saint Bernard in spaniel -- to be exact and not just any dog no San Diego's all officials say the dog of 120 years ago. Believe it or not here in what today we call the gas lamp there was a stray dog that just became everybody's favorite. He could wander in and out of any place including downtown saloons where he could always get one in the may be a couple more Beers and that wasn't so good. But as far as San Francisco's stories spread about how this dog saved a child from drowning and pulled a poppy out of the path of a streetcar and may be it was true or not who knows. At civic events parades fires people would say make way make way here he comes and he would come through to where he could see everything that was going on. Bomber that was -- name bomb had a front row view of everything that happened -- the 1880s and nineties. Lost part of his leg when he was hit by a train and the whole city followed his recovery in the newspaper. For years he was pictured on dog licenses and after this weekend that downtown courtyard will look something like this. -- one and only ever see the dog back in the gas lamp after more than a century so that generations might come to know this tale. About San Diego Ken Kramer NBC 739."
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