Kathleen Sullivan writes in the San Francisco Chronicle about the City’s 49 Mile Scenic Drive.
In 1938, when the Downtown Association created the 49 Mile Scenic Drive to highlight the city’s beauty and to promote it as a business and tourist destination, the route began at City Hall, curved along the northern shoreline of the bay and down the Pacific coastline, swooped around Lake Merced, dipped into Golden Gate Park, climbed to the top of Twin Peaks, cruised down Market Street, crossed the Bay Bridge, and ended on Treasure Island.
Dawn’s Chicagouncommon.org has a great photo series taken on the Drive.