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It celebrates the cultural, architectural, and geographic diversity of San Francisco in a one-of-a-kind way, and will give you your bearings for the rest of your stay in town. more info / book this tour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ba0313e707eb34c51c5823/1457039407124-S2S4K40BXBDMIJDKZWWC/tour_of_the_month_pic.jpg our tours - THE WHOLE SHEBANG: three neighborhoods squeezed into a deluxe three-hour tour The Whole Shebang! is a comprehensive overview of the City's history and shows off three of her most distinctive neighborhoods: Nob Hill, Chinatown, and North Beach. It's our flagship tour, and our most popular tour as well. If you can only take one tour while you're in town, make it this three-hour granddaddy of them all. It celebrates the cultural, architectural, and geographic diversity of San Francisco in a one-of-a-kind way, and will give you your bearings for the rest of your stay in town. more info / book this tour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ba0313e707eb34c51c5823/1455319240306-1FGOV8FG9LKVKTVUM9IL/tour_of_the_month_pic.jpg our tours - COME OUT TO THE CASTRO: San Francisco's gay village from top to bottom In the late 1960s, the Castro district suddenly became the cultural and spiritual center of the Gay universe. How did Eureka Valley, a quiet working class neighborhood, become synonymous with Gay pride? Learn about the history of gay culture in San Francisco from the Gold Rush times to the present. This two-hour romp winds its way through one of the City’s most famous districts—mostly because it can’t go straight! more info / book this tour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ba0313e707eb34c51c5823/1456936205035-1OMKT33Y2LXU9YM1NWA5/tour_of_the_month_pic.jpg our tours - FLASHBACK: from the Summer of Love to the Winter of Discontent This two-hour tour takes the intrepid traveler on a vivid trip through the heart of the Haight-Ashbury district, the psychedelic birthplace of the cultural revolution that sparked the 1960’s. It’s the trippiest of all our trips. We see the locations of some of the most memorable events of the tie-dyed Summer of Love, as well as the former homes of the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, and other notable characters. The tour also discusses the music, poster art, and lifestyles that defined the Hippie era in San Francisco’s most colorful neighborhood. more info / book this tour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ba0313e707eb34c51c5823/1490731846346-3DEWJVTJTGQ1DM3HD71G/short+trip.jpg our tours - THE SHORT TRIP: a mini Flashback tour On The Short Trip, you'll get a 67-minute version of Flashback, our tour of the Haight-Ashbury. This mini-tour focuses on just the highlights of the Summer of Love that brought the world's attention to San Francisco and put lots of flowers in lots of hippies' hair. If you're looking for a short trip to give you your bearings in this psychedelic neighborhood, this is the tour for you. 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Learn how The Railroad Barons and The Bonanza Kings used insider trading, price gouging, graft, money laundering, forgery, illegal monopolies, and bribery to build their empires from San Francisco’s most exclusive address, Snob Hill—I mean, Nob Hill. more info / book this tour   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ba0313e707eb34c51c5823/1456615358906-70K329Z46A8AR9KRJ9UV/image-asset.jpeg our tours - CHASING THE DRAGON: disorient yourself in the mystery and history of Chinatown Chasing the Dragon is a two-hour trip to another country, without the fuss of a passport. You'll get three perspectives on what this famous neighborhood is all about: a center of culture, history, and curious tourists. Plus back-alley access you can't get from a boring bus. It's the largest Chinatown outside of Asia—they have bigger ones in China, but they're just called "towns" over there—and by far the most crowded neighborhood in San Francisco, as well as the City's original town center. Don't worry, we'll make sure you don't get disoriented. more info / book this tour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ba0313e707eb34c51c5823/1480557380103-ZU4KQ14YBG8CH5TUOIQD/fullex.jpg our tours - FULL EXPOSURE: a revealing tour of the ever-changing identity of North Beach Learn about the ever-changing history of North Beach, from the Gold Rush debauchery of the Barbary Coast era to the anti-establishment artists of the 1950s to the present. North Beach is always changing, and this has encouraged many locals to reinvent themselves over the years, too. This two-hour walking history lesson makes its way through one of the most popular tourist destinations in town, where locals are proud to hang out as well. Find out how the neighborhood continues to rediscover and reinvent itself, and learn what happened to that original beach . . . as well as a lot of other fun FOOT! facts. more info / book this tour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ba0313e707eb34c51c5823/1455319316141-WFZS5UQ1ZKV5U8DF2R38/tour_of_the_month_pic.jpg our tours - SAN FRANCISCO IN A NUTSHELL: the nuts and bolts of San Francisco's history We've crammed 150+ years of the City's history into a two-hour walking tour full of facts, fun, and frivolity. San Francisco in a Nutshell is an overview of everything from yesteryear that made the City what she is today. It’s a highlight reel of the Gold Rush on forward, hitting the nuts and bolts of what built this city—and it’s a lot more than just rock-n-roll. This is a junior version of the Whole Shebang tour, but without all the pesky hills and tedious walking. It’s 99% flat and perfect for those who want to keep it on the level. Someone once said, “Whenever you get tired of walking in San Francisco, you can lean against it,” but they didn’t know about this easy downtown walk. more info / book this tour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ba0313e707eb34c51c5823/1456887518347-7ASTDCAP8TYCFXD4M7DG/shake.png our tours - SHAKE & BAKE: the heartbreak of the great 'quake First came the Shake: tectonic plates scraped past each other, unleashing the equivalent of 6,000,000 tons of TNT! The first tremor scored 8.25 on the Richter Scale, and they felt it all the way to Vancouver—where it was 11.6 (Canadian Richtre, with exchange rate). Then came the Bake: three and a half days of burning of America's tenth largest city, civilization's largest fire. Did the City survive? 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We'll give you the skinny on the history of the City's waterfront: how "water lots" were extended into the bay, how ships were hauled onto the land (and turned into saloons), how Shanghaiiers would kidnap unsuspecting victims, how Mother Nature opened up views by taking down freeways, how shipping was (and still is) the backbone of the bay's economy, and how San Francisco uses its past to reinvent its present for the future. more info / book this tour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ba0313e707eb34c51c5823/1480557194865-W5A16WVD6W81Q2C8N4HJ/lobbies.jpg our tours - LUSCIOUS LOBBIES: warm interiors and SF traditions San Francisco is a city built around hospitality; hotels, restaurants, and bars have been catering to visitors (and prospectors) since the Gold Rush days. But she shines especially bright around the holidays, and our special edition Luscious Lobbies tour takes you to extraordinary places you wouldn't discover on your own. more info / book this tour   http://www.foottours.com/guides-1 daily 0.75 2021-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ba0313e707eb34c51c5823/1456956571568-JQYHR31MEYEA7E06E8GU/aj.jpg guides - AJ DAVENPORT AJ is the FOOT! tour diva and an expert in most aspects of San Francisco history. She's an avid history buff, an accomplished actress, and long-time City resident. specialties: Go West, Young Woman; Walking on Water; The Whole Shebang; Full Exposure You can connect with AJ here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ba0313e707eb34c51c5823/1456956571568-JQYHR31MEYEA7E06E8GU/aj.jpg guides - AJ DAVENPORT AJ is the FOOT! tour diva and an expert in most aspects of San Francisco history. She's an avid history buff, an accomplished actress, and long-time City resident. specialties: Go West, Young Woman; Walking on Water; The Whole Shebang; Full Exposure You can connect with AJ here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ba0313e707eb34c51c5823/1461633194290-OLUS6VTW21PVGC631S55/Kim+in+Clam.jpg guides - KIM LARSEN Kim Larsen is the Castro expert at FOOT!. He has lived in the neighborhood for over 20 years and is very active in the local theater and GLBT scenes. He's performed at many theaters in SF and the Bay Area including the popular long-running musical revues Shopping! The Musical and Foodies! The Musical. He is also a long time board member for Theatre Rhinoceros, the world's longest ongoing GLBT theater company. He is the publisher of GayPocket San Francisco, a pocket-sized, seasonal GLBT guide for visitors and locals. Make his tour one of the first things you do when coming to SF. 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This two-hour walking history lesson makes its way through one of the most popular tourist destinations in town, where locals are proud to hang out as well. Find out how the neighborhood continues to rediscover and reinvent itself, and learn what happened to that original beach . . . as well as a lot of other fun FOOT! facts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ba0313e707eb34c51c5823/1457059763423-4WDS4MTABTD434908ASA/dragon.jpg tours by length - CHASING THE DRAGON: diorient yourself in the mystery and history of Chinatown Chasing the Dragon is a two-hour trip to another country, without the fuss of a passport. You'll get three perspectives on what this famous neighborhood is all about: a center of culture, history, and curious tourists. Plus back-alley access you can't get from a boring bus. It's the largest Chinatown outside of Asia—they have bigger ones in China, but they're just called "towns" over there—and by far the most crowded neighborhood in San Francisco, as well as the City's original town center. Don't worry, we'll make sure you don't get disoriented. more info / book this tour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ba0313e707eb34c51c5823/1457059785774-8HFKC2WCWGPB95R8Z3VF/shebang.png tours by length - THE WHOLE SHEBANG: three neighborhoods squeezed into a deluxe three-hour tour The Whole Shebang! is a comprehensive overview of the City's history and shows off three of her most distinctive neighborhoods: Nob Hill, Chinatown, and North Beach. It's our flagship tour, and our most popular tour as well. If you can only take one tour while you're in town, make it this three-hour granddaddy of them all. 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Learn how The Railroad Barons and The Bonanza Kings used insider trading, price gouging, graft, money laundering, forgery, illegal monopolies, and bribery to build their empires from San Francisco’s most exclusive address, Snob Hill—I mean, Nob Hill. more info / book this tour   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ba0313e707eb34c51c5823/1457061360976-EMO2JSRPX16PM5NMAFUL/divas.png tours by length - GO WEST, YOUNG WOMAN: a dozen daring divas who did it their way Go West, Young Woman is by, for, and of the ladies. With a ratio of 56 men to each woman in 1849, San Francisco was only for women who were strong of mind or strong of body. (Keep this in mind, boys: the Frontier Gal did everything the Frontier Guy did—only she did it in a corset.) Starting near the shopping district of Union Square (no, you may not go into Saks!), you’ll visit the theatre district, Maiden Lane, Chinatown, and North Beach. 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