Crooked Lombard Street In San Francisco Turned Into Life-Size Version of Candyland Game

by Scott Beale on August 19, 2009 · 6 comments

Here’s raw video shot by KGO ABC 7 of San Francisco’s famously crooked Lombard Street in San Francisco being converted into a life-size version of the children’s board game Candyland, in honor of Candyland’s 60th anniversary.

Creating Candyland on Lombard

3000 mats cover 575 ft of Candyland curves on Lombard st

photos by Steve Rhodes

SFist has been posting photos of Lombard Street being converted into Candyland, like this series of photos from Steve Rhodes.

Here’s more Lombard Street Candyland video by David Newman.

Queen Frostine

GreenTeam Candyland

peppermint forest candyland Lombard Street

photos by BerDerp

BerDerp has been shooting a bunch of great Candyland photos.

UPDATE: Here’s more Candyland coverage from SFAppeal.

Thanks to Felix for the tip about the video!

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filed under Games, Video

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1 adam jackson August 19, 2009 at 12:52 pm

Someone needs to break out the big wheels!

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2 Meliha August 19, 2009 at 1:23 pm

This looks AWESOME!

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3 Keane August 19, 2009 at 4:28 pm

I’m checkin it out after work. Hopefully they don’t dismantle it!

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4 alex bronca August 19, 2009 at 7:31 pm

The interesting things (like this) that I see on this blog make me wish I was in SF.

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5 Teri August 19, 2009 at 10:11 pm

And it’s things like this that make me so glad to be here! Come visit! After 18 years living here I’m still falling in love with this city.

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6 featureBlend August 20, 2009 at 4:01 am

Wow – thats truly an amazing aerial video, thanks for sharing with us!! They did a great job transforming Lombard street :-) Ok i’m dying for some candy now..LOL!!!

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