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  • What takes years and costs $20K? A San Francisco trash can

    08/13/2022 4:18:11 PM PDT · by grundle · 19 replies
    Associated Press ^ | August 13, 2022 | OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ
    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — What takes four years to make and costs more than $20,000? A trash can in San Francisco. That costly, boxy bin is among six trash cans hitting San Francisco’s streets this summer in the city’s long saga in search of the perfect can. Overflowing trash cans are a common sight in the Northern California city, along with piles of used clothes, shoes, furniture and other items strewn about on sometimes-impassable sidewalks. City officials hired a Bay Area industrial firm to custom-design the pricey trash can along with two other prototypes that cost taxpayers $19,000 and $11,000...
  • Charles Harrison, 87, Designer Who Reshaped the View-Master, Dies

    12/08/2018 11:21:38 AM PST · by SFmom · 36 replies
    New York Times ^ | December 3, 2018 | Katharine Q. Seelye
    Charles Harrison, an industrial designer who rethought hundreds of ordinary items, including a plastic trash bin on wheels, a see-through measuring cup and the 3-D View-Master, which were then snapped up by the nation’s burgeoning postwar middle class, died on Nov. 29 in Santa Clarita, Calif. He was 87.