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Steep and Stepped: A Walking Tour of San Francisco's Stepped Streets |
| Section: LIFE / TRAVEL |
| Author: Bill Strubbe |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1999 |
| Size: 2,063 Words, 12,674 Characters |
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When you think of San Francisco, what comes to mind? Foggy summers and earthquakes, sourdough bread and the Golden Gate Bridge, rather unconventional inhabitants. And yes, its famous cable cars clanging up and down its equally acclaimed hills. When the founding fathers laid out "Frisco," its peaks (some forty-two all told) hampered the transformation of the sprawling tent village of five hundred in 1847 into a respectable metropolis of over twenty thousand during the 1849 Gold Rush. Novel street planning was required to navigate the steep terrain, so where sidewalks came to an abrupt halt at an incline, steps were often built to mount the remainder of the streets.
Filbert Stairway on Telegraph Hill is perhaps the city's most cherished stepped street, but only the most intrepid of seeker...
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...e Bay. Suggested paraphernalia for step scouting are sensible walking shoes, a good city map, a water bottle and camera, and for earnest explorers Adah Bakalinsky's indispensable book Stairway Walks in San Francisco, available at any city bookstore. It would be less than gracious to conclude without acknowledging this woman, whose wizened feet have trod these worn treads many times before me.
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