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Lombard Street in 1933, before the hydrangeas were planted. The houses on the south side of the block were destroyed to create a fire break during the 1906 Earthquake and Fire. In this photo taken during street construction, the south side is still not built up.
The Wall was built in 1961 to prevent East Germans from fleeing and to stop an economically disastrous migration of workers. It was a symbol of the Cold War and its fall in 1989 marked its approaching end. During the Cold War, the US conducted around 1,054 nuclear tests by official count, between 1945 and 1992.