Tag: history
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The Neon Museum, aka the Boneyard
For a city with as much history as Las Vegas, you hardly ever see it. Almost nothing on the strip is older than about 30 […]
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Old Sacramento Waterfront and the underground
The waterfront is where Sacramento began, although today it barely feels like a part of the city. It’s all but cut off from downtown Sacramento […]
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LA’s Union Station
It’s been almost two years since my last visit to Los Angeles, a trip I accidentally over-planned to the point where I had three times […]
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Gaslamp Walking Tour
During my first visit to San Diego I remember walking across a busy street and set of train tracks from the Convention Center to the […]
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Paris of the Pacific tour
Yesterday afternoon I took a San Francisco City Guides tour I’d never heard of before titled 1850’s San Francisco: Paris of the Pacific. This relatively […]
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City Guides tour of Lands End: Sutro Heights
I’m no good at planning, so it comes as no surprise that I’d neglected to make plans for Labor Day and had to find something […]
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Eight things they don’t tell you about living in a “charming” historic building
I moved to San Francisco thirteen years ago, and about half that time I’ve lived in an apartment that was built in the early 1940’s. […]
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Dolores Park: What’s in a name?
The freshly renovated section of Dolores Park opens later this week. If you’re like most people, the name “Dolores Park” conjures up images in your […]
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Why it’s time to shut up about “wearable tech”
Lately we’ve heard a lot about wearable tech. It’s said to be an exciting new product category that involves smartwatches, Google Glass, and perhaps fitness […]
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Fort Point
Today I visited Fort Point for the first time since I was very little. In fact it was part of a Y-Westerner’s trip. So that […]
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