For 40 years, the clues have stumped treasure hunters. But my dig would be different.
Gladd then narrowed things down to the Powell Street railroad park entrance pavilion. How? The painting includes a shadowy image of a cable car, and this building used to house cable cars. And is that a conductor’s watch on the table? Then there’s the stem of the rose in the painting, whose curved shape perfectly matches the sides of the iron bench inside the pavilion, and might also connect to the line “the air smells sweet.
When my metal probe struck something about 2 feet deep, I thought this would indeed be a great day. My mind raced ahead of my shovel, and I imagined selling the gem for a few thousand dollars, or donating it to the Park Department, which could incorporate the jewel into a commemorative statue of me to be constructed next to the flower bed where I was about to definitely find this treasure.
Clockwise from top left: SFGATE culture editor Dan Gentile, right, consults with Phil Ginsburg, general manager of the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, to review ideas of the precise location of the treasure from the book,"The Secret: A Treasure Hunt;" a couple feet down and still probing; the moment of defeat, when Dan Gentile calls off the dig; mounds of dirt that collected in the process.
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