San Francisco History |

Private Tour Guides San Francisco | we love our history!

Vikki has a crush on Black Bart

Guests on our San Francisco private tours often ask us for museum recommendations; if our guests love San Francisco history as much as we do, we always recommend the Wells Fargo History Museum.

This small and atmospheric museum focuses primarily on the gold rush, the overland passage from the [...]

Bay Area Museums | Get Your Geek On!

Vikki playing herself at Pong

Today the Ladies of Carried Away visited the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, for the preview opening of their new exhibit “Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing“.

If you are a geek, or are nostalgic for the first computer games ever invented (pong anyone?), are a Maker or a Steampunk, [...]

San Francisco History | Market Street Film is Fantastic!

A Trip Down Market Street

In case you missed Morley Safer’s “60 Minutes” segment last Sunday on the San Francisco Market Street film shot in 1906, we are posting it here for you. This film, officially titled “A Trip Through Market Street”, has been making the rounds for a while, and it is a wonderful [...]

San Francisco Sights | Historical Vignettes in SF

San Francisco History!

As much as The Ladies of Carried Away love the current happenings in San Francisco, we do also love the history of the city. From Macondray Lane (Mark Twain once lived there) to Portsmouth Square (the site of hangings during the vigilante era of the 1850′s) to the “Little Fire Hydrant That [...]