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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 350813" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>Lombard Street....</p><p> </p><p>[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px">Virtually every visitor to San Francisco has heard of Lombard Street—but not necessarily by name. This thoroughfare is better known as the Crookedest Street in the World, a moniker stemming from the fact that, in 1922, city engineers crammed eight cobblestone switchbacks into a single steep block of Lombard. The goal was to provide relief from the hair-raising slope; the inadvertent result was a tourist site.</span>[/FONT]</p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Hairpin turns are only part of the attraction. Lombard's crazy-curve block is lined with handsome houses and adorned with copious hydrangeas. The high point, atop Russian Hill, offers stupendous views of the San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz, and the city. Add to this the fact that the Hyde Street cable car deposits camera-toting visitors at the top of the picturesque incline and the Crookedest Street could hardly have escaped notice.[/FONT]</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Lombard traverses North Beach and, on its way west, serves as a portion of Highway 101, but more important, Lombard provides the only vehicular access to Telegraph Hill and landmark Coit Tower. Which means that in summer, high season for travelers, cars back up along Lombard for blocks. So here's the straight dope on the Crookedest Street: See it on foot.[/FONT]</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 350813, member: 1246"] Lombard Street.... [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2]Virtually every visitor to San Francisco has heard of Lombard Street—but not necessarily by name. This thoroughfare is better known as the Crookedest Street in the World, a moniker stemming from the fact that, in 1922, city engineers crammed eight cobblestone switchbacks into a single steep block of Lombard. The goal was to provide relief from the hair-raising slope; the inadvertent result was a tourist site.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=2][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Hairpin turns are only part of the attraction. Lombard's crazy-curve block is lined with handsome houses and adorned with copious hydrangeas. The high point, atop Russian Hill, offers stupendous views of the San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz, and the city. Add to this the fact that the Hyde Street cable car deposits camera-toting visitors at the top of the picturesque incline and the Crookedest Street could hardly have escaped notice.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Lombard traverses North Beach and, on its way west, serves as a portion of Highway 101, but more important, Lombard provides the only vehicular access to Telegraph Hill and landmark Coit Tower. Which means that in summer, high season for travelers, cars back up along Lombard for blocks. So here's the straight dope on the Crookedest Street: See it on foot.[/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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