The famous Lombard Street in San Francisco, from 1922 to 2018
It’s hard to picture San Francisco without this beautiful street. Its zig-zag lanes offer a unique tourist attraction and are a staple of Golden Gate City. Although you were probably born after it came into existence, it’s really fascinating to look at the process of how this renowned street was built.
Before there were planted trees in its surroundings and buildings constructed beside it, in 1922, the would-be street was a bunch of dirt with no cars daring to cross it. Drivers and tourists would have to wait a few months before they could take this path, as it was finished in that same year.