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A 1987 recording keeps San Francisco’s fog horns alive

There’s a world of sound that doesn’t really exist anymore, and there’s a recording made on the water’s edge in San Francisco over 40 years old that captures one corner of that world.

Thousands of people have found this recording, and are listening to it, to the sounds of the past. One of those people is reporter Stella Singer, who brings us this story.

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