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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.
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, 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]
John "Scottie" Ferguson, a character played by James Stewart lives at 900 Lombard Street in Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo (1958). Based on the view from the window, Admiral James T. Kirk 's apartment seen in the films Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock was located in the Russian Hill area of San Francisco.
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 .
As the main street of St. Johns' commercial core, it was named Jersey Street. [6] Historically, Lombard Street was home to a large segment of the "St. Johns" streetcar line, which ran from Albina to St. Johns between 1889 and 1937. The Kenton Stockyard line also traveled up a portion of Lombard between 1909 and 1928. [7] [8]
Fleet Street: President Street to Haven Street Lehigh Street to Umbra Street Inner Harbor East Fells Point Highlandtown Brewer's Hill Greektown: Formerly known as Canton Avenue. [11] Part of route of Bus Route 31 Split by railroad and factory between Haven and Lehigh Sts. Fremont Avenue: Pennsylvania Avenue to Booth Street Upton Sandtown-Winchester
The red center bus lanes and the southbound platform at Market Street. The Van Ness BRT corridor is 1.96 miles (3.15 km) long, running north–south between Lombard Street and Mission Street. [2]: 2–9 Van Ness Avenue has six travel lanes on this section – two general-purpose lanes in each direction, plus center-running red bus lanes.