New for August
The summer season is heating up at City Guides. We are elated to see so many of you joining our tours this summer. Our Guides are back and leading tours throughout San Francisco. We are happy to add the following tours on our August schedule.
Cow Hollow
Perk up your Sunday morning with the bell ringing at the oldest Orthodox Christian parish in America. Spared destruction from the 1906 disaster, Cow Hollow contains structures from nearly every decade since the 1860s. This tour illustrates the transformation of the district from a rural suburb to a full-fledged city neighborhood. See the only remaining natural spring still flowing in Cow Hollow, and climax your walk by viewing the unique Vedanta Temple, the oldest Hindu temple in the western world. After the tour, have lunch on Union Street and explore its unique shops.
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Downtown Deco
Even though the Art Deco movement was a French creation, it found a dedicated American evangelist in San Francisco architect Timothy Pflueger, one of the most prominent architects in the city during the 1920s. We’ll take a comprehensive tour of all the Art Deco masterpieces in San Francisco’s downtown. Soak up San Francisco of the 1920s through these elegant, timeless buildings.
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Potrero Hill
It was the 1850s on the southern edge of town cattle peacefully grazed the hill know as Potrero Nuevo (“new pasture”). Their days on this fertile pasture were numbered. Bustling industry along the shoreline below the hill created a need for nearby housing. Potrero Hill was urbanized, industrialized, and then gentrified in the 1990s. Yet, today, some residents still feel like it’s a secret — isolated from the rest of the city, but blessed with sweeping views of the skyline and Bay. See the beautiful buildings that hide out along the hilly streets of Potrero. Learn about little piece of paradise in the southeast.
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South of Market (SOMA) & Yerba Buena Gardens
Before it was the illustrious South of Market — it was called “South of the Slot”, a rough working-class neighborhood with a skid row reputation. Transients and seamen of all kinds passed through here, enjoying a healthy warehousing industry and all kinds of nightlife. Bars and gentlemen’s clubs popped up on every block. Who would’ve thought it would eventually become the home of the dot-com boom? The stories of SOMA could fill a hundred history books — join us on a trip through a few of them.
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