The Stories Behind San Francisco’s Most Unique Street Names

And the backstories to how they got them

Joy Allie
The Bold Italic
Published in
4 min readJul 20, 2020

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The streets of San Francisco are a doozy — they are steep, crooked, winding, and charming. Turns out, they also have some bizarre names. We took a thorough look at all of the streets in the city and rounded up the strangest names we could find, with a preference for those with interesting origin…

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