Main street to walk in your city?

I am reading a book written by an author who walked the entire length
of Broad St in Philadelphia, and he comments on what he finds along
the way. I remember someone wrote a book about his walk along the
entire length of Broadway in New York City.

I live in Pittsburgh, and figure that Forbes Ave would be a good
street to walk the length, and the walk would take me through
representative sections of Pittsburgh. There are a couple of other
streets which might fit the bill also. Market St in San Francisco, and
Broadway in Oakland, CA would seem to also fit the bill. El Camino
Real (not 101) would work for the Pennisula.

Do readers have suggestions for their cities? In Cleveland my choice
would probably be Euclid.

Tom

"tombates@city-net.com" <tombates.RemoveThis@city-net.com> wrote in news:38a04941-f167-
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> I am reading a book written by an author who walked the entire length
> of Broad St in Philadelphia, and he comments on what he finds along
> the way. I remember someone wrote a book about his walk along the
> entire length of Broadway in New York City.

The problem with streets like this is that even in their heyday, they were
not designed as tourist destinations. They were designed mostly to be
thoroughfairs, i.e., the highways of their day to help poeple quickly get
from one section of town to another. Most of the interesting parts of a big
town were off the main highway. Walking these streets might be interesting
from a historic point of view, but they were not really representative of the
city back then, and not now either.

Is any visitor (except for professional historians) to the San Francisco area
really going to be interested in walking more than a few blocks of El Camino
Real or even Market Street? Probably not.