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After we finished interviewing Adah (author of Stairway Walks of San Francisco … search here, or better yet, buy her book using the link on the left side … the tall Amazon banner), and getting her to autograph our books (we have the 1st and 6th editions), she talked about the stairway that’s on the cover of the 6th. It’s the most beautiful of them all.
The story of how it came to be decorated with the tiles is fun to know .. a young woman from Rio de Janeiro could see the stairway outside her kitchen window and it was originally just plain old concrete. She enrolled a neighbor and the rest is history. They formed a group, went through the process of getting city permission, received donations of materials and a garage space to work on the design and tiles. It took 3 years, but the result is a beautiful display of fish, seaweed, water and shells … from bottom to top. Many of the fish tiles have names and dates. It was quite an undertaking, I’m sure.
If you like things like this, you really should get her book. It’s a never-ending source of intrigue for us locals and it’s what San Francisco is all about - neighborhoods, hills and views. To see other stairway walks, use the search box (upper right).
, is still a big hit since her first edition in 1984. Now in it’s 6th edition, and better than ever, with 27 jaunts and over 600 public stairways, you’ll find plenty of entertainment here.