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Lombard Street is an east–west street in San Francisco, California, that is famous for a steep, one-block section with eight hairpin turns. The street stretches from The Presidio east to The Embarcadero (with a gap on Telegraph Hill). Most of Lombard Street's western segment is a major thoroughfare designated as part of U.S. Route 101.
The neighborhood is most famous for Lombard Street, the one-way section on Russian Hill between Hyde and Leavenworth Streets, in which the roadway has eight sharp turns (or switchbacks) that have earned the street the distinction of being "the crookedest street in the world". [4]
Lombard Street (/ ˈ l ɒ m b ər d,-b ɑːr d /) is a street notable for its connections with the City of London's merchant, banking and insurance industries, stretching back to medieval times.
Lombard Street (San Francisco), California, steep with hairpin turns; Lombard Street (Baltimore), Maryland; Lombard Street (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania See also Lombard Street riot; Lombard Street (Portland, Oregon), part of US 30 Bypass
Lombard Street was a historic center of the London banking industry from medieval times to the 1980s, from which the book draws its title. When Overend, Gurney and Company suspended payments on 10 May 1866, panic spread across London, Liverpool, Manchester, Norwich, Derby and Bristol.
In the 1930s, with the completion of the nearby Golden Gate Bridge, Lombard Street (now Highway 101) was widened, and soon developed into a strip of roadside motels. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake caused severe liquefaction of the fill upon which the neighborhood is built, causing major damage including a small firestorm .
Lombard Street: Lombard Street in Philadelphia: Also said to be named for Lombard banking. Lover's Lane: 1806 love affair: Named for the doomed romance of Maria de la Concepcion Arguello, granddaughter of José Darío Argüello, and Nicolai Petrovich Rezanov, chamberlain to the czar of Russia. [5] Lyon Street: Nathaniel Lyon: Lundy's Lane ...
Lombard, which is known as Lombard Street East in this area, with part of an interchange with the Harbor Tunnel Thruway and access to Bayview Medical Center. Lombard Street is one of Downtown Baltimore's older streets. Its name comes from the Italian town Guardia Lombardi, as Lombard Street was originally an Italian settlement. [2]