Tourist attraction
Vallejo Street Stairs
Vallejo Street Stairs, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA
Cobblestone hillside stairway winding through a community-tended garden named for a pioneering poet.
This guide to the Vallejo Street Stairs in San Francisco follows Ina Coolbrith, who climbed these steps for decades as one of the city's leading poets while keeping a family secret from her Illinois childhood. It traces an abusive first marriage, her arrival in San Francisco under a new name, and the weekly gatherings in her nearby home that drew poets, editors and a young Oakland library patron named Jack London. Listen for her connection to a Mormon prophet, kept quiet even from her closest visitors.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.