Walk San Francisco's Union Square
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Union Square
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Did you know.....
Downtown San Francisco
- ... that the Westin Saint Francis was one of the first buildings in Downtown San Francisco to be built with a steel frame?
- ...Union Square got its name from pro union rallies
- ...that there is a parking garage built under Union Square... and this garage was built in 1942 and was one of the first parking structures to be built under a park.
To learn more about Union Square listen to this Audio Tour
City of Paris
Downtown San Francisco
Neiman Marcus currently sits on the site where the City of Paris shopping center has been since the California Gold Rush.
Excerpt from the tour...
"In 1896 the Verdier family moved the City of Paris store into a new building that was considered one of the finest examples of beaux-arts style architecture in a commercial building in California. The building was torn down to make way for the new Neiman-Marcus store that opened in 1982. To get permission......"
Learn more about this historic location in this audio tour of the City of Paris.
Flood Building
Downtown San Francisco
Excerpt from the tour...
"As good as Dashiell Hammett's detective stories are, they don't compare to the real life case of Constance May Flood. Chance are good that you have not heard much about Constance because the Flood family has been trying to forget that she existed for over 100 years now.
Her story begins with James Leary Flood, the son of the Bonanza King, James Claire Flood. The younger James grew up in extreme wealth, but he angered his father when....."
To learn more about this building's unique history, listen to this audio tour of the Flood Building.
San Francisco's Chinatown
Downtown San Francisco
Excerpt from the tour..."The Chinese were heavily discriminated against and forced to take the lowest paying and most difficult jobs. Thousands of Chinese were brought into the U.S. to build the railroads. Their passages from China were paid by the railroad companies that then took their first three months of wages to repay the railroads for the cost of the passage. The railroad work was difficult and very dangerous. Of the 11,000 Chinese constructing on the railroads, 1000 died during the construction. Despite having to lay tracks through the Sierra Pacific Mountains, which are some of the highest mountains made of very hard granite rock, the Union Pacific rail line completed 900 of the 2000 miles of track needed...."
To learn more listen to this audio tour of San Francisco's Chinatown.
San Francisco Fountain
Downtown San Francisco
Do you know who sculpted the San Francisco Fountain?Excerpt from the tour...
"San Francisco was founded on a beautiful bay with some of the most dramatic scenery in the world. The combination of the high hills and the lovely views of the ocean and the bay will take the breath away from even a lifelong San Francisco resident. It is no wonder that San Franciscans are always looking for more ways to add to the beauty that they see around them."
To learn who sculpted this fountain, listen to the audio tour on the San Francisco Fountain.
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- I was just visiting the bay area, but didn't make it to the city this time. Nice lens... Welcome to All Things Travel.
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