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Old Fallon Steps Replaced

8/9/2015

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Russian Hill's Broadway sidewalk stairs with built-in benches at the top, a dead-end for vehicles: first four pix. 

Ascending from the top of the Broadway steps, Florence has around 54 steps. The short street comes out at Vallejo: 5, 6


20 steps for the unique old double stairway down to Jones from Vallejo: 7, 8


Jones sidewalk steps down from Green: pic 9


Entering Michelangelo Playground at its entrance below Greenwich, between Jones and Leavenworth: 10, 11


Foot of the Greenwich steps/walkway up from Leavenworth: pic 12


Next, Havens off Leavenworth. It doesn’t run thru to Hyde. 
74 for the steps under the tree to the walkway. 75 down again from the upper walk: 13 thru 19

41 steps for Macondray Lane if you count about seven widely spaced ones on the rough brick walkway just before the wood steps on the east side down to Taylor: 20 thru 25


Climbing up steep Taylor where at the top, Ina Coolbrith Park is across from the Vallejo stairway: 26, 27

Next to the park Fallon Place descends. 


Noticed some of the original steps (old pink concrete) have been replaced with newer concrete ones. Posted before re a book written before all the boring-looking newer condos turned this stairway into a dead-end. Below is from a former post, this from a hike in January 2013:


“I remember Fallon before it got condo-ized. … library book with a title something like "The San Francisco Street of 80 Steps." Not sure of the exact title; the last time I checked it out was several years ago. Googling it didn't get me any results; don't know the author or when it was published. Probably out of print. It's a short, nostalgic personal history of life on this stairway written by a woman who lived there before the present buildings were constructed. I think at least some of the original steps are still there though.”  


Counted 78 steps this time. So this paperback has apparently disappeared - like the old Sausalito stairways book I’d like to find. 


One old home is still here. This one got saved. For the stairway when it was being torn up back in the 1970s my Facebook album for Russian Hill shows the old wood walk and the section of old pink steps that have now been replaced with newer ones. Five old pix here; if only I’d taken a lot more. 


Fallon down from Taylor: 28, 29, 30, 31


An old wood-railed stairway on Nob Hill up from Washington, Priest. Cable cars run along Washington here. Long ago residents had a view east: pic 32. 


Nob Hill: Taylor & Sacramento, last pic

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1. Broadway up from Taylor
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2. The north sidewalk steps
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3. Broadway from Taylor partway to Jones
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4. Dead-end for cars and benches for walkers
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5. Florence up from Broadway
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6. Vallejo here has elevated walkways on both sides
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7. Double stairway from Vallejo down to Jones
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8. Unique double stairway, center
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9. Sidewalk steps on one side of Jones down from Green
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10. Michelangelo Playground is below Greenwich
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11. Garden and playground
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12. Greenwich up from Leavenworth
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13. Foot of Havens at Leavenworth
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14. Starting up
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15. Between Leavenwotth & Hyde
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16. Sit for a while
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17. Not thru to Hyde
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18. Gardenspot where no cars can go
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19. Back down to Leavenworth
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20. Macondray Lane
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21. Another peaceful gsrdenwalk
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22. View from Macondray above Taylor
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23. Down to Taylor
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24. Foot of Macondray steps
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25. Climbing up Taylor
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26. View east from Ina Coolbrith Park
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27. Telegraph Hill in distance
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28. Replacement steps on Fallon
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29. This old home is still here
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30. Back up again
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31. Top of Fallon at Taylor
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32. Priest stairway, Nob Hill
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33. Taylor near Sacramento, Nob Hill
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