Tasks / Street Spelling

Spell out your character's name or your name in San Francisco street signs, one for each letter. Take pictures of each street sign for proof.
Better yet, have someone else spell out for you and trade pictures.
1 to 3 players
25 points
Level 2
Created by Joe Zarate-Sanderlin
22 completed :: 3 in progress
Interested in collaborating on this: (no one yet!)
this task is retired
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After a night of art, Bjork, music, and curry, we decided to tackle this task. Luckily, I'd thought I had memorized the task, so we went around photographing various street signs for letters in the mission! Totally fun, and we found a really nice vie...

My starting point: Abeel Street. From there, I got all of the remaining streets to spell LA FLANEUSE by only walking along streets that started with the letters I needed. That is, until I got to Easton Avenue. I thought I would be able to cut thr...

The hard part was finding the X. There are no streets in San Francisco that begin with an X. So, I did the next best thing and found one that began with EX. I decided that it would be more of a challenge (and I would travel more of the city) if I ...

Laguna Ortega Waller Taraval Evelyn Caledonia Kirkham It was kinda neat how some of the sunset district signs came out at night in the fog.

well, I started off trying to pick up streets that I happened to pass by in the course of my day-to-day... but then I got offered help from an accomplice who happens to know the best kept secrets of the city... none of which fit into my character nam...

Laziness can bring about unexpected solutions. With this weekend's heat, I wanted to complete the Street Spelling task in the shortest possible distance, as close to home as possible. So with a little studying of the map, I discovered not only could ...

Things I needed to do last night: Clean my house. Do laundry. Do research. See my family. Things I didn't need to do last night: Anything else, especially riding my bike all over the city looking for letters not from the alphabatized part...

This was going to be the easiest task ever. 1. Go find S 4th Av.. 2. Take photo. Simplicity and Beauty. This is what happened. 1. Went towards S 4th on surface streets to avoid rush hour. 2. Got to Portland overpass only to find it closed fo...

I pretty much cheated, twice. Three times if you count the last two images.
Does this count?
