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Bicycle and walking tours, Urban Forums: Walk-n-Talk, plus monthly Bay Cruises!

Wednesday, June 14, 7:30 pm
—at 518 Valencia—

The New Deal in San Francisco


Celebrating our 25th anniversary with a return to our Public Talk series at 518 Valencia with our good friends at the Living New Deal project. Gray Brechin, Chris VerPlanck and special guests will surprise us with how much San Francisco still depends on infrastructure built during the original 1930s New Deal!

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“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 » Sunday, July 2, 12-4 pm, (Part of Laborfest) pm 

Labor History

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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.

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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.

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