Man walks every street in San Francisco

A man named Tom Graham has finished walking every street in San Francisco:

Walking every street in San Francisco seemed an endless task. Pieced together, the pavement would stretch all the way from here to Juarez, Mexico.

Only a handful of people have done it. And now I can say I have. All 2,612 streets.

For the past year, I concentrated on walking Bayview-Hunters Point, Visitacion Valley, the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, Treasure Island, Yerba Buena Island and the alleys in Chinatown, North Beach, downtown, Russian Hill, Telegraph Hill, South of Market and the Mission.

The shipyard resembles a ghost town. Streets empty. No street signs. Mazes of chain-linked fences topped with barbed wire block roadways. Long-abandoned buildings with broken and boarded-up windows and peeling lead paint line street corridors. Broken-down wharves are occupied by brown pelicans and seagulls. An eerie silence hangs over this once thriving World War II shipbuilding mecca.

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