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Where was spell check?

Posted on by Sarah B.

This street name was probably stamped into the concrete decades ago. I would have loved to see the look on the crew’s face when they finished up for the day. “Uh, maybe no one will notice?” Photo by Eric Fisher

15 Comments

  1. Love this. There are so many incorrectly spelled street stamps all over San Francisco. I dream of photographing them all for a book.

  2. Speaking of incorrect spellings, been noticing TV news captions pretty regularly has mis-spellings, a sign of the times or what?

  4. So I noticed a few weeks back that there was a new bike lane painted on JFK drive that looked like a 5 year old chasing rabbits had painted. A few days later, the entire lane was pulled up and was lying on the side of the street. Today I saw a stop lane with a stop sign painted on the cross walk on clement and I think 16th or 15th avenue where stop is written like someone tore up tapes and spelled stop by using those straight narrow tapes. Horrible!

  5. @ Sandeep: There’s a “STOP” written like that at Cabrillo and 15th (I think) too! I wonder if it’s a citizen who is tired of waiting for the city of SF to paint it officially?

  6. @ Amy Could be, but then it would be termed as vandalism as it could cause traffic confusion. Specially if someone is remarking entire lanes! Maybe something to investigate?

  7. Didn’t you all get the memo? It’s no longer 25th Ave, it’s 25th Heights. Yeah, that’s the ticket…

  8. There are others that say TWENTYTH ST. and MISSON ST.
    Maybe the workers should go back to shcool!

  11. What do you expect from morons who make speed bumps to “fix” potholes (if and when they actually do attempt it).

    I’m starting to believe the contractors for the city are doing this on purpose to pad their billing and work flows. Failure by design.

    Do the city taxpayers have any legal recourse to make the city do things correctly the first time, or maybe this is why we’re so broke and they make cuts to education and so forth.

  12. @Sandeep

    Seriously- what is up with JFK drive? To think that we actually paid for that nonsense.

  13. “…looked like a 5 year old chasing rabbits had painted…”

    Sandeep, this has to be the best word play I have seen in months. 🙂

  14. @ Tyler It is embarassing. Great exposure to tourists!
    @ Mel 😉 Thanks.

  15. Thanks for posting. I used to live in the apartment right in front of this typo at 25th and Balboa. It was our own little neighborhood claim to fame.

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