Showing posts with label San Francisco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label San Francisco. Show all posts

Monday, June 18, 2012

San Francisco’s Cow Hollow Walking Tour

Photos of Union Street Inn, San Francisco
This photo of Union Street Inn is courtesy of TripAdvisor

Head a little further down the hill to Cow Hollow, one of San Francisco’s lesser known but nonetheless striking, fascinating neighborhoods. In a city of rebels and runaways, Cow Hollow has epitomized rough-and-tumble Frisco creativity and individualism for over 160 years. This walking tour explores the history of the area, tracing its roots as a small dairy farming district in the mid-19th Century -- when Lombard Street was still at the shoreline -- to residential expansion in the shadow of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in the early 20th Century all the way to the vibrant eclecticism that we see today.


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San Francisco's Broadway Walking Tour


Beginning where the Pacific Heights Walking Tour leaves off, this walk along Broadway Street chronicles the development of one of the most beautiful and eclectic residential streets in San Francisco, located on the north slope of the Pacific Heights Hill, between Franklin and Fillmore Streets. The buildings we will see are representative of several different periods of construction, including the earliest house in Pacific Heights, several gorgeous Victorian era family homes, the turn-of-the-century mansions for which Broadway is most famous, and finally the modernist apartment buildings of the 1920s and post-World War II era.


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Monday, April 16, 2012

San Francisco. Broadway Street Walking Tour



Beginning where the Pacific Heights Walking Tour leaves off, this walk along Broadway Street chronicles the development of one of the most beautiful and eclectic residential streets in San Francisco, located on the north slope of the Pacific Heights Hill, between Franklin and Fillmore Streets. The buildings we will see are representative of several different periods of construction, including the earliest house in Pacific Heights, several gorgeous Victorian era family homes, the turn-of-the-century mansions for which Broadway is most famous, and finally the modernist apartment buildings of the 1920s and post-World War II era.

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Sunday, September 25, 2011

San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf/Telegraph Hill Tour

A self-guided walking tour of San Francisco's famous Fisherman's Wharf an North Beach neighborhoods.

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Sunday, September 11, 2011

San Francisco's Barbary Coast Trail


San Francisco's Barbary Coast Trail is a tour along the original coast line of the town of San Francisco (former known as Yerba Buena). Walk along the trail paying close attention to the bonze medallions in the sidewalk (denoting the original coastline).

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