San Francisco at a glance is a city filled with diverse people and places. Take a memorable trip to just a few of the following area's in San Francisco and you will not want to leave the "City By the Bay"!
Fisherman's Wharf:
Fishing boats, seafood stalls, steaming crab cauldrons and seafood restaurants and sourdough French bread bakeries … you know you’re in world-famous Fisherman’s Wharf. Souvenir shops and museums add to the atmosphere. The historic F-Line streetcar and two cable car lines terminate in the area and sightseeing boats and boat charters link to Alcatraz and Angel Island and other points around San Francisco Bay. This 500-mile cleft in the California coastline has a split personality. It is both a major center for water-borne commerce and a delightful excuse to just go play by the bay.
“Did you know that the first lighthouse on the West Coast is located on Alcatraz?”
Haight - Ashbury
One of the most photographed scenes in San Francisco, Alamo Square's famous "postcard row" at Hayes and Steiner streets is a tight formation of Victorian houses back-dropped by downtown skyscrapers, providing a stunning contrast. The corner of Haight and Ashbury streets still has its tie-dyed roots; vintage clothing, books and records are abundant here and along lower Haight Street. Locals will point out Buena Vista Park, with its city views; and, for architectural highlights, Masonic, Piedmont and Delmar Streets. Cole Valley is also view endowed; head for Tank Hill. Parnassus Heights is home to San Francisco’s second largest employer: the University of California, San Francisco.
“Did you know that the Grateful Dead once lived at 710 Ashbury St. and Janis Joplin at 112 Lyon St.?”
Union Square
Virtually every fashion label in the world has set up shop in and around Union Square, a landmark park in the heart of the downtown shopping and hotel district. Granite plazas, a stage, a café and four grand entrance corner plazas bordered by the park's signature palms, pay tribute to the Square's distinctive history and offer a forum for civic celebrations. The cable cars head up Powell Street from here and flowerstands populate every corner. Thousands originally from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam have given the Tenderloin, a 20-square-block district west of Union Square new life. A landmark church, an experimental theatre house, jazz and blues clubs, restaurants and cafes point to a neighborhood renaissance.
“Did you know that Union Square was named for pro-Union demonstrations on the eve of the Civil War?”
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