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SPENCER MICHELS (Newshour): Perched atop Telegraph Hill, Coit Tower has dominated the San Francisco skyline since it was dedicated in 1933.
It's a familiar symbol of the city, a beacon at a spot where residents in the 1850s used to signal ships in the bay. But there is historic treasure inside as well. More than 75 years ago, Ruth Gottstein watched as her father, Bernard Zakheim, along with other artists, painted frescoes on the walls of the tower, murals that depicted the life of America in the early 1930s.
The murals, in which Gottstein appears as a young girl, were funded by a predecessor of the federal government's WPA program, begun by President Franklin Roosevelt to keep artists working during the Depression.
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