This S.F. Fortress Is Full of Money That Will Never Be Spent

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The prettiest pennies are made in San Francisco. Take a trip inside the S.F. Mint. Reported by Amanda Font. Editing by Jessica Placzek and Julia McEvoy. Hosted by Ryan Levi. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Jessica Placzek, Ryan Levi, Paul Lancour, Suzie Racho, Erika Kelly and Julia McEvoy. Holly Kernan is Vice President for News. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller. Ask us a question at BayCurious.org. Follow Olivia Allen-Price on Twitter @oallenprice.

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0:00.0	From K-QED.
0:02.0	San Francisco streets are lined with iconic well-known buildings, the Trans-America
0:08.7	Pyramid, City Hall, the Ferry Building.
0:12.2	But Bay Curious Lesser Spencer Barton has always
0:14.5	wondered about another building on market near Dubose Avenue. It's a
0:18.7	hulking gray building that Spencer passes on his way to work. Yeah, it's like a castle on the hill or something.
0:26.0	It has very small windows.
0:28.0	It doesn't seem like anybody ever enters or leaves.
0:31.0	Nobody ever comes out. Is it a Wonka factory, a jail? The Royal Residents of some San Francisco
0:42.1	socialite? Spencer wants to know.
0:45.0	What is the big concrete barbed wire encased building behind the Safeway on Market Street? I'm Ryan Levy. the about the Bay Area. This week we're going inside that building.
1:05.0	Support for Bay Curious is brought to you by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company,
1:09.0	still family owned, operated, and argued over.
1:13.0	Explore their brews wherever fine beverages are sold,
1:16.0	and taste how trailblazing runs in the family.
1:19.0	Visit Sierra Nevada.com
1:21.0	to find your new favorite beer today.
1:24.0	Reporter Amanda Font has been obsessed with this building for months now.
1:28.0	So Amanda, what's all the secrecy and security about?
1:31.0	What's inside that building?
1:33.0	Well, the short answer is
1:35.0	It's a U.S. Mint.
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