Please Donate Turning Golden Gate Heights stairways into works of art. Streetwise - Stairways to the Stars by Frank Dunnigan Frank Dunnigan, WNP member and columnist. - Many of us grew up believing that the rectangular blocks of the Sunset District had always been there, or at least that they were laid out somewhere around the dawn of time. However, it wasn’t until the 1920s that the city began to undertake several massive public works projects to complete the geometric street grid across the entire western half of San Francisco. With streetcar service through the Twin Peaks Tunnel comme...