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Bay Curious

What's It Like to Live on the Filbert Steps?

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9999 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Eric Johnson has been trying to explore more areas of San Francisco. He discovered the Filbert Steps on Telegraph Hill one beautiful spring day and it got him wondering what it's like to live there. Are there special rules homeowners have to follow? We met up with some residents to find out, discovering a whole lot more about this tight-knit community along the way. Additional Reading: How the Filbert Steps Came to Be an Oasis in San Francisco Where Did the Wild Parrots of San Francisco Come From? Reported by Katrina Schwartz. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, Sebastian Miño-Bucheli and Brendan Willard. Additional support from Jen Chien, Kyana Moghadam, Jessica Placzek, Natalia Aldana, Carly Severn, Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, Ethan Lindsey, Vinnee Tong and Jenny Pritchett.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From K-QED.

0:03.0

Hello, hello, I'm Olivia Allen Price, and this is Bay Curious, the show that answers

0:08.5

listener questions about the Bay Area.

0:11.7

When I first moved to San Francisco nearly a decade ago, I was struck, as many newcomers

0:16.8

are, by the steepness and sheer number of hills that make up our region.

0:22.1

Getting around town on foot or bike

0:24.4

takes a little getting used to.

0:27.6

I had one particularly brutal bike ride

0:30.0

getting from the Embarcadero down at sea level

0:32.3

up to Coate Tower to check out the view.

0:35.0

As the crow flies, it's a quarter mile journey, but by bike a 20 minute suffer fest winding

0:40.9

around city streets and up up up to the top of the hill.

0:46.3

When I finally got to the top, drenched in sweat from my journey, what did I find?

0:51.0

A convenient staircase that connected where I was now to where I had come from.

0:55.6

Well, shoot.

1:00.3

These are the Filbert Street Steps, and of the many staircases in the city, these are noteworthy.

1:05.8

I first came here on a date.

1:08.0

It didn't work out with that person, but that's okay.

1:10.3

This is Eric Johnson, our question asker this week.

1:13.0

Despite that initial flop, he returned, because,

1:16.0

Nevermind Quit Tower, these steps are a really good date spot.

1:20.0

They're lined with well-tended homes and gardens.

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