Upcoming Events:
Fall 2017
Our Fall Calendar of Talks and Tours will appear in mid-Summer
Meanwhile, please enjoy our extensive history archive at foundsf.org and come on our Walking Tour on June 10, and Bicycle Labor History Tour on July 1.
Walking Tours — Spring 2017
Social, historical, and critical tours through San Francisco.
Saturday, February 18—New Deal Murals, Italian SF, and Trash
Saturday, March 18—Beer, Dunes, and Trains: SOMA
Saturday, May 13—Rancho San Miguel Hilltopper
Saturday May 27—Fort Mason and Northshore Part of the San Francisco International Arts Festival.
Saturday, June 10—Summer of Peace, Love, & Anti-War
Bicycle Tours
“Cycles of History,” our social, historical, and critical tours through San Francisco by bicycle.
Our fabulous bicycle tours are led by Critical Mass co-founder Chris Carlsson, with help from LisaRuth Elliott.
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NEXT BIKE TOUR » Saturday, July 1, 2017, 12-4pm
Labor History
From the pre-urban history of Indian Slavery to the earliest 8-hour day movement in the U.S., the ebb and flow of class war is traced. SF's radical working class organizations are shaped in part by racist complicity in genocide and slavery, but from the 1870s to the 1940s there are dozens of epic battles between owners and workers, culminating in the 1934 General Strike and its aftermath. This is an entirely different look, during a four hour bike tour, at San Francisco labor history.
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Explore Shaping San Francisco:
Ecology Emerges
Discussions and reflections on the history of Bay Area ecological activism, based on oral histories documenting the past 50 years.
Ecology Emerges is an oral history gathering project to explore the past 50 years of ecological activism in the Bay Area and the role that individual and institutional memories play in the development, policy proposals, and interrelationships that together make up the existing networks of ecological politics. We document the living ecological activist movement, in their own words, but also in a larger context of urban growth and globalization.
Oral Histories
Shaping San Francisco, as part of our ongoing work, sits down with people who have stories to tell and conducts oral history interviews.
Check them out here.
"Editor's Pick Tour" from FoundSF.org
Comprised of over 1,400 pages, and 2,500 historical photos, the wiki-based archive FoundSF.org is the product of hundreds of contributors, regular people who were compelled by the chance to investigate some piece of this City's past.