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SF Remakes Crookedest Street as Candy Land Board

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(Newser) – San Francisco’s Lombard Street, “the crookedest street in the world,” will tomorrow be shut to traffic and set up as a giant Candy Land game board for sick kids, the Appeal reports. The event, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the kids’ board game, is being hailed as the largest Candy Land game ever. At the finish line it will be cake, not candy.

Motorists wind their way down Lombard Street in San Francisco.
Motorists wind their way down Lombard Street in San Francisco.   (AP Photo)
Tourists walk down Lombard Street, known as
Tourists walk down Lombard Street, known as "the crookedest street in the world," in San Francisco.   (AP Photo)
A woman plays Candy Land with her daughters.
A woman plays Candy Land with her daughters.   (AP Photo)
Lombard Street
Lombard Street   (©jimmyack205)
San Francisco's Lombard Street.
San Francisco's Lombard Street.   (Wikimedia Commons)
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rajanKazhmin
Aug 18, 09 3:57 PM CDT
Damn liberals at it again. Reply
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Newser001
Aug 18, 09 8:43 PM CDT
I think it, wonderful ! There are so many terminally ill kids in the Bay Area... And to think in the midst of this financial debacle, it's still going to come off !!! Thank you, San Francisco, University of California, San Francisco Children's Hospital and Hasbro.
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Kookey90
Aug 18, 09 4:55 PM CDT
This sounds like a crooked deal to me. Reply
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my-name-here
Aug 18, 09 5:12 PM CDT
It'll go downhill, fast...
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DarkFrancis
Aug 18, 09 6:23 PM CDT
Dammit, I can't think of a pun! Reply
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