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- 4:00 pmSunday January 17
Virtual - Spreckels' Sugar Empire
Beginning in the late 1850s, Claus Spreckels arrived in San Francisco and set his sight on building his sugar empire that would later bring a tremendous amount of wealth to the Spreckels family. The reach of the Spreckel’s sugar empire would reach from Hawaii to the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. We will be focusing on Claus Spreckels and Alma de Bretteville Spreckels contributions.
- 7:30 pmTuesday January 19
Virtual - Land's End: Sutro Heights
Across the West Coast, there’s few ocean vistas more arresting than Land’s End — a fact millionaire Adolph Sutro was well aware of when he built the first passenger steam train to the park in 1880. He wasn’t done there: Sutro transformed the land, adding an elaborate public garden, renovating the quaint Cliff House and constructing the Sutro Baths, a massive swimming facility on the oceanfront. Come experience Adolph Sutro’s gift to San Franciscans
- 10:00 amSunday February 14
Virtual - 1850's San Francisco: Paris Of The Pacific
For one hour, City Guide Bruce Bennett tells you about the French origins of the "City by the Bay". You will learn how our compatriots built the first French community in California and how, thanks to their entrepreneurial talents and resourcefulness, they managed to survive in San Francisco, a boomtown straight out of the mud of Yerba Buena Cove.
- 10:00 amSunday February 28
This is a virtual tour. For much of the early 20th century, nobody traversed the Bay without going through the Ferry Building. At its peak in the 1930s, it was the second-busiest travel hub in the world, shuttling more than 50,000 people both to and from San Francisco each day.
