A Group Audio Walking Tour of San Francisco History by Detour!
Detour was a SF startup that build a new kind of audio walking tour. With hands-free guidance, group audio sync, and tours guided by people at the center of a neighborhood's history, Detour was your essential companion to getting beneath the surface of new places. It was acquired by Bose and shut down. These incredible tours are no longer available anywhere.
Don't miss this exclusive opportunity to experience this magical audio tour experience no longer available anywhere else.
Your ticket purchase helps cover the cost of the group tour audio devices that will make this experience possible.
Tour spots are very limited to keep the group size manageable. If the event sells out additional tours may be added.
Please bring the following:
- Wired headphones or an adapter for wireless earbuds (bluetooth is not supported on the audio tour devices)
- Some cash for one of our tour stops
Description of original tour:
Join best-selling author Gary Kamiya on a rollicking (and stunning) walk through 25,000 years of San Francisco history. As you follow Gary’s path forward in time, you’ll hide from mammoths and walk in the soft footsteps of the area’s first humans. You’ll watch Chinese immigrants play cards in an historic square, then go back in time to meet the ‘Father of San Francisco,’ the first guy to build a house there.
You'll wander through the flea-bitten, forgotten outpost that, when the Gold Rush hit, became the crazy, instant city of San Francisco. You’ll feel your feet sinking into the muddy streets and hear the soundscape of the time. Prostitutes will beckon to you from shadowy corners, gunshots will make you jump. You’ll learn the Turkey Trot.
And then, you’ll emerge into the sunlight of Telegraph Hill (and the 20th century). A tasty Italian sandwich in North Beach; Coit Tower framed by a narrow alley and then a visit to the WPA-era paintings inside. And all along the way, you’ll meet the waves of newcomers who’ve made and remade this city, decade after decade, and gain a deeper understanding of how this fabled city became what it is.
