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San Francisco, city by the bay, claims its Lombard Street is ”the Crookedest Street in the World.” Burlington, Ia., city by the river, claims its Snake Alley is ”the Crookedest St… ...
The "crooked street" on Lombard under construction by Pacific Gas and Electric. Photo taken January 12, 1987. Liz Hafalia. Lombard Street Hill n.d. Courtesy of OpenSFHistory.org.
Motorists make their way down Lombard Street on Tuesday, May 20, 2014, in San Francisco. San Francisco's crooked street could soon be closed to tourists in the summertime.
World's Crookedest Street Gets a Sweet New Look Lombard Street hosts birthday bash for gingerbred men, gum drops, peppermint sticks By Jessica Greene • Published August 17, 2009 • Updated on ...
The “World’s Crookedest Street,” with eight S-curves in one block, reopened to traffic after nearly six months of renovation. Some San Francisco residents were bent out of shape by the move ...
The curviest, crookedest street in San Francisco became the curviest, crookedest waterslide in San Francisco for a short time Friday after a car slammed into a fire hydrant and flooded the area. A ...
The city has decided to straighten out the traffic problem on the “Crookedest Street in the World.” A road leading to the famously winding 1000 block of Lombard Street will be shut down during ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill late Saturday night that would have allowed San Francisco officials to devise a reservation and toll plan for visitors wanting to drive down the city's iconic &#039 ...
Thousands of tourists looking to drive down San Francisco's "crookedest street" may soon have to pay a toll. To reduce crowds and traffic, city and state officials on Monday announced a bill that ...
Tourists visiting the crooked block of Lombard Street, one of San Francisco’s top attractions, will have to open their wallets to drive the stretch under a proposal city leaders just approved.
SAN FRANCISCO — For six car-honking, exhaust-choked years, Andrew Bacigalupi has lived near the tortured twists of the Russian Hill block known as “the crookedest street in the world,” often ...
San Francisco's Lombard Street claims to be the "crookedest street in the world" — with eight switchbacks on a steep hill. Officials are debating how much a toll tourists should pay.