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Taking out the trash — 100 years later

Executive director Doug Jenzen, left, and U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal, talk about a plaster sphinx head unearthed from the long-buried set of Cecil B. DeMille’s silent movie “The Ten Commandments.”
Executive director Doug Jenzen, left, and U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal, talk about a plaster sphinx head unearthed from the long-buried set of Cecil B. DeMille’s silent movie “The Ten Commandments.” Joe Johnston jjohnston@thetribunenews.com

The Tribune showed a picture of two guys looking at the sphinx dug up at the Oceano Dunes. Sorry, guys, that’s not the sphinx.

The real one is still in Egypt. What you have there is trash left behind on the beach. At least it’s being cleaned up, almost 100 years later.

John Koepf, Arroyo Grande

This story was originally published July 30, 2018 at 12:54 PM.

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