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Show « Salt ADVENTURE Lake Tribune ay, July 27,2003 Puotos wy CHab SUAMICK/ The AwociatedPress Bougainvillea grows along the rooftop on Market Street in one of the rooftop gardens open to the public in San Francisco. A City Guides tour revealed the hard-to-find garden. Insiders Guide to San Francisco Free tours provide visitors a uniquelook at thecity by the bay but relatively unknown rooftop gardens in the FinancialDistrict “[ went onsimilar tours in London, but I think San Francisco's arebetter,” Deutsch said. “I've been on a bunch of thesesinceI got here andthey've beengreat ‘Lespecially recommend North Beach at tour. Thosewerereally good.” AN FRANCISCO AN Aftei After a quickk spiel spie! about the Native Sons Monument where the group assembled in downtown San Francisco, guide Dorothy Meyer offered a lit tle poem as the walking tour set out The miners came in ‘49, The whores in ‘61 Wr ‘i “You'd never know about these rooftop gardens without this kind of tour. There may be plaques onthestreet, but if you're not looking for them, you'd never know,” said Kay Keller of Worthington, Ohio. One of the rooftop gardens on the Cityscapes tour 343 Sansome St. at Sacramento el ature of Cit Guides tours in San Fran but with more than 200 guides leading tours all over the city you never ki at | get. You can be assured, f ver, yc etting of the best bargains in San Francis CO. The City Guides program, which cele brates its 25th birthday this year, offers free walkingtours, every day, rain or shine, led b' trained volunteer guides. Most of us do it out of love for the city, or for a particular neighborhood, or the architec ture, or a culture, or for the history,” said M a City Guides tow leader for 10 years. And every leader brings something differ ent. You could take the same tour with differ ent guides and you'd get a different perspec tive,” she said He otal ta euuny Erbleytrait is marked by an inconspicuous 4-inch brass plaque at street Public Open Space.” It Joesn't say what or w and without the tour these two General Information: You canget schedules at San Francisco Public Library branches; at the San envelopeto City Guides, San Francisco Ma Library, San Francisco, On the Net on foot and all between 90 minutes and two hours long. Most are geared to specific parts of Chinatown, NorthBeach, Coit Tower, UVavem SAVE UP 10 $1,300 with your cholce of historical 25% OFF HOUSEBOAT om trict getable Lake Powell H vah Deutsch of New York, f Ask for Code ADO315 ing Meyer downtown San Francisco. It Is oneof the sites on a sponsor, and the City Guides’ office for its 1% the City Guides tour of the Financial District. paid employeesisstill in the library's main branchnear theCivic Center, City Guides gets some sup- port fromthe Lucille M, and George F. Jewett Fund and from Grants for the Arts of the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, but most operating money printing, Web-site costs, train. ing, promotion comes from individual donations. pe] Lol6] oh 111-1610) 6 1. cease 2 . 877-340-0900 ATLANTA r 238 AMSTERDAM 860 6 ik Vacation of four or more days now Call Toll-Free Now: 1-800-207-8384 able things to do when I got here,” saidNaa Ornate brass work from the turn of the century greets visitors to the bank ofItaly's ATM in community organizations, The library is still a FREE is POWERBOA) Rental wi looking on the Internet for afford Most — but notall — tour takers are truly tourists. The sign-up sheet for Meyer's downtown walk showedpeople from Australia, New York, Alaska, Ohio, Georgia, Ari zona and SanFrancisco, Originally a program of the San F isco Public Library City Guides is now aproject of the Tides Center, a nonprofit umbrella groupfor social and (HeNNW LN)demetPak) aaa parks, rooftop gardens and architectural and landmarks in the Financial Dis- cal http: ae Sfcityguides.org. Building, formerly the Zellerbach building. Most of Meyer’s two dozen tourists ignored the fact the tours are free, and tucked money into the donations envelope at the end of the walk. There are 26 regularly scheduled tours, all ple lively, informed introduction to hidden Civic Ce: For more information: oblivious to the gardens with olive trees, flow ering shrubs, sculpture and high-rise views of earliei this month, Meyer gavetwo dozen peo includes morethan 1,200 tours and13,000 guests a year. Francisco Visitors Center in Hallidie Plaza, Powell Street at Market; o send self-addressed, stamped downtownand Yerba Buena atop the CAC town find some volunteers to give tours in City Hall, Sincethen, the programhas spread throughout the city and now If you go dozen visitors would have been during a Cityscapes and Public Places tour amines the early days of what becamean instant city; Bawdy and Naughtycovers San Francisco's legendary professional women. City Guides stdrted in 1978 when Mayor George Mosconeaskedthecity librarian to Night and the Gold RushCity By GronGe LAUER The Ansociated Press Art Deco Marina, Golden Gate Bridge, Japan: town andthe Western Addition, Inner Sunset. 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