From the top of famous Lombard Street in San Francisco.
Some trivia: The street, and the difficulty of driving it, is parodied in the Bill Cosby sketch “Driving in San Francisco” on the album Why Is There Air? (recorded in Las Vegas):
“They built a street up there called Lombard Street that goes straight down, and they’re not satisfied with you killing yourself that way—they put grooves and curves and everything in it, and they put flowers there where they’ve buried the people that have killed themselves. Lombard Street, wonderful street.” (audience reacts with knowing cheers and applause).
It was also included in the comic car chase scene in Peter Bogdanovich’s film What’s Up, Doc? (1972) starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal.
