Where Armistead Maupin Found His Inspiration #SanFrancisco #TalesOfTheCity #LocalHistory

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]And hidden away is Mccandre Lane. And it's it's another one of these little paper streets or what, you know, pedestrian street that are too steep to make it into a street. And they just evolved in these little parks and it's another hidden little place that's really neat. And we we stumbled upon this one day a few years back. We love it. It's And we we've lived in San Francisco for years in in the Bay Area.

[00:00:26]Never knew about it. So >> actually it's known though for be because like >> Oh yeah, true. It it's known to the literary crowd because of the uh tales of the city by Armstead Malta.

[00:00:40]>> Yeah.

[00:00:40]>> And he memorialized this so well in the 70s late 80s or I should say the 80s when he published his books and uh yeah great books >> but another literary tie-in.