Photo: The Little Giant

This is the fire hydrant at the southwest corner of Dolores Park, at 20th and Church Streets, that saved the Mission District during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Now dubbed the "Little Giant" it's painted gold to commemorate the role it played in saving this part of the city.

The sidewalk plaque visible at the lower right reads as follows:

"Though the water mains were broken and dry on April 18, 1906, yet from this Greenberg hydrant on the following night there came a stream of water allowing the firemen to save the Mission District."