The future of the Vaillancourt Fountain in San Francisco continues to be up in the air, with some hoping it will ultimately stay in its current location.

When Allegra Fisher looks at the Vaillancourt Fountain in Embarcadero Plaza, her childhood memories come flooding back.

"This is around the age when I probably loved running in the fountain the most," Fisher said, holding a picture of herself at age 3.

She vividly remembers jumping between concrete slabs she called "lily pads" while dodging fountain water as she waited for her mother to leave work in the 90s. Now an artist and painter, the fountain is a symbol of the artistic freedom that San Francisco is known for.

That's why she waited nearly two hours to defend the fountain from demolition at the SF Arts Commission meeting on Oct.

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