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If donkeys could speak - Art Installation

Rediscovering the innate ergonomic genius of donkeys and reassigning their proper realm.

Reportedly:

"City planners and residents have struggled with San Francisco's steep hills from the very beginnings of the city.

Lombard Street was just one of the many cliff-like streets that horse-drawn wagons and Model T Ford's had trouble with. Cable cars were one solution, and curvy switchbacks were another.

In 1922, the home-owners on the 1000 block of Lombard Street decided that their street was too steep for comfort, and created the plan to create a series of eight sharp turns to make it more manageable."

City Planning officials had an epiphany: Donkeys were the first to lay out APPROPRIATE path network patterns.

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Original picture taken by Christina Grammenos

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Uploaded on February 17, 2023
Taken on March 28, 2016