The streets of San Fran crisscross the famously hill cityscape. A stretch of one, Lombard Street between Hyde and Leavenworth, is dubbed the world’s “crookedest” (not actually so, but its eight hairpin turns are quite a sight to see). Others, such as Powell, California, and Mason, offer the chance to ride an actual national landmark: the famous San Francisco cable cars in operation since the 1870s (pictured here, with Alcatraz prison island in the background) - those which, as singer Tony Bennett famously crooned, “go halfway to the stars”). Just another of the many reasons why you, too, will be left singing “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.“
Read more in my post San Francisco in an American Original.
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