Macondray Lane

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The scenic route down from Ina Coolbrith Park – via steep stairs, past gravity-defying wooden cottages – is so charming, it looks like something from a novel. And so it is: Armistead Maupin used this shady, hidden byway as the model for Barbary Lane in his Tales of the City series.

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