Friday, January 5, 2024: 8:30 AM-12:30 PM
Lobby, near the Taylor Street exit (Hilton Union Square)
Tour Leader: Chris Carlsson, Shaping San Francisco
This walking tour will primarily focus on labor history, expansively imagined. The tour will cover major strikes and upheavals from 1877, 1901, 1916, and 1934; the freeway revolt; and Chinese and Italian influences in local economic history. The tour will also touch on the ecological and social history of coffee, bananas, hay, baseball, railroads, and slavery.
Please note: Participants will travel by bus to and from the start and end points of the tour. The walking tour will cover approximately two and a half miles over flat, paved terrain, with numerous stops along the way, including a short restroom break midway through the tour.
Limit 25 people. $50 members, $55 nonmembers
Session Abstract
Tour Leader: Chris Carlsson, Shaping San Francisco
This walking tour will primarily focus on labor history, expansively imagined. The tour will cover major strikes and upheavals from 1877, 1901, 1916, and 1934; the freeway revolt; and Chinese and Italian influences in local economic history. The tour will also touch on the ecological and social history of coffee, bananas, hay, baseball, railroads, and slavery.
Please note: Participants will travel by bus to and from the start and end points of the tour. The walking tour will cover approximately two and a half miles over flat, paved terrain, with numerous stops along the way, including a short restroom break midway through the tour.
Limit 25 people. $50 members, $55 nonmembers
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