Презентация, доклад по английскому языку на тему Lombard Street in San Francisco (7класс)

Street, perhaps the devil himself would break a leg. And it's not a spoiled pavement or unscrupulous exploitation of services - is to blame, oddly enough, only one wily local topography.

just one of the amusing features of the city, but also cause a variety of inconveniences for builders and architects. The most famous inconvenience lurking on Lombard Street - the street in the historic part of the city, starting from the Presidio Parkway and heading east, in the direction of the Telegraph Hill.

of 27 degrees.

Yes, it was only 400 meters (which, incidentally, were in the Russian Hill neighborhood), but there also were people, and these people, for example, wanted to have a car - after all, because they live in a country of equal opportunity! And then, in 1922, a local resident, whose name was Charles Henry, offered to bend the road to flatten the slope unbearable. The motion was passed unanimously, and instead there were 27 degrees 16.

sharp turns - all on the most 400 meters. Even the beautiful red brick, which was paved with a new "track", could not brighten gloom motorists.

Appeared at the side of the beautiful flower beds, trim trees, slender and well-kept houses wife, who turned into a pretty hell transport traffic hell. By the way, this is undoubtedly influenced by the popularity of the tourist places.

that originally started the annual race held on tricycles.