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Lombard Street, the "crookedest street in the world":

it is a one-way section of Lombard Street in which the roadway has eight sharp turns that have earned the street the distinction of being the crookedest [most winding] street in the world (though this title is contested). The switchback's design, first suggested by property owner Carl Henry and instituted in 1922, was born out of necessity in order to reduce the hill's natural 27% grade, which was too steep for most vehicles to climb. It is also a serious hazard to pedestrians, who are accustomed to a more reasonable sixteen-degree incline. The crooked section of the street, which is about 1/4 mile (400 m) long, is reserved for one-way traffic traveling east (downhill) and is paved with red bricks. The speed limit in this section is a mere 5 mph (8 km/h).

An dieser Stelle ist die Lombard Street eine der steilsten Strassen der Stadt mit einem Gefaelle von 27 %, was fuer viele Autos und auch Fußgaenger problematisch war. Daher wurde sie 1923 in Serpentinenform als Einbahnstraße (bergabfuehrend) umgebaut. Es gibt 8 Kurven auf einer Distanz von nur ca. 145 m.

the lower end of Lombard Street

The Haight-Ashbury district is famous for its role as a center of the 1960s hippie movement, a post-runner and closely associated offshoot of the Beat generation or beat movement, members of which swarmed San Francisco's "in" North Beach neighborhood two to eight years before the "Summer of Love" in 1967. Many who could not find space to live in San Francisco's northside found it in the quaint, relatively cheap and underpopulated Haight-Ashbury. The '60s era and modern American counterculture have been synonymous with San Francisco and the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood ever since.

Haight-Ashbury ist ein Stadtteil von San Francisco benannt nach der Kreuzung von Haight Street und Ashbury Street. Bekanntheit erlangte das Gebiet in den 60er Jahren durch die Beatnik- und Hippie-Bewegung. Als berühmte Musiker, die in Haight-Ashbury ihren Wohnsitz hatten und die dortige Musikszene entscheidend mitprägten, sind Janis Joplin wie auch die Gruppen Grateful Dead undJefferson Airplane zu nennen. Haight-Ashbury ist auch heute noch Anziehungspunkt für eine alternative Gegenkultur.

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