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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]
This has led the street to be dubbed the crookedest in the world in competition with the better-known Lombard Street (Vermont, while steeper than Lombard, has fewer turns). [2] In an episode of Fact or Fiction on the Travel Channel , Jayms Ramirez measured the sinuosity of Lombard and Vermont streets and found that Vermont is indeed more ...
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: 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 ...
St Mary Woolnoth is situated on the corner of Lombard Street and King William Street, and continues to be an active parish church. The City & South London Railway had obtained permission to demolish the 18th-century church and build a station (originally proposed to be named "Lombard Street") on the site.
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Legislative Route 224 (LR 224) was defined in 1947 to connect U.S. Route 101 (US 101, pre-1964 Legislative Route 2) at the intersection of Lombard Street and Van Ness Avenue with US 40 and US 50 (pre-1964 Legislative Route 68) at the west end of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge (near the Transbay Terminal).