Historic Downtown San Luis Obispo Walking Tour
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Step back into history as you tour the historic downtown of San Luis Obispo. The tour is comprised of audio and visuals that will guide you to each stop and introduce you to characters from the past. The tour takes approximately an 1 ½ hrs to complete.
- Website
- http://www.historycenterslo.org
- Description
- Step back into history as you tour the historic downtown of San Luis Obispo. The tour is comprised of audio and visuals that will guide you to each stop and introduce you to characters from the past. The tour takes approximately an 1 ½ hrs to complete.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2011-06-22 23:20
- last episode published
- 2010-11-15 05:17
- publication frequency
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- Contributors
- The History Center of SLO County
- Author
- History Center of San Luis Obispo County
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 26
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2010-11-15 | his is the beginning of the tour which starts in front of the beautiful Carnegie Library building now home to the History Center. Built in 1906, it is one of the oldest buildings in the city. |
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| 2010-11-15 | Learn the mystery behind this small adobe building. |
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| 2010-11-15 |
Chapter 3 – Mission San Luis Obispo Chapter 3 – Mission SLO Chapter 3 - Mission San Luis Obispo Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is the oldest building in our city. Learn about how the mission first got started and the friars who made it all happen. Get information on how the mission has been used as a city hall and a jail at one time. |
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| 2010-11-15 | Take a load off in our beautiful plaza and learn how it used to be part of highway 101. Hear about runaway trucks and how they used to crash into buildings near the mission. Learn about how the plaza came to be and how it almost didn’t happen. |
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| 2010-11-15 | Stop outside the historic cast iron façade and learn about one of the oldest general stores in the city and the family that started it. |
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| 2010-11-15 | This is a multicultural stop highlighting a Swiss-Italian general store known as Muzio’s and a German bakery known as the Sauer Bakery. |
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| 2010-11-15 | Take a tour of a place that most locals have never explored! It’s called Rose Alley named for the roses that used to line the alley way. The tour will lead you down the alley and you will feel as though you’ve stepped back into the past. |
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| 2010-11-15 | This chapter will introduce you to J.P. Andrews, one of the savviest business men in San Luis Obispo’s history. |
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| 2010-11-15 | This courthouse was built on land donated by JP Andrews back in the mid-1800s. The first courthouse, built in 1873, was demolished by Alex Madonna in 1939 and there is a great story of how he got the job. |
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| 2010-11-15 | The Fremont theater is a classic example of 1942 design based on Art Deco. It was designed by architect S. Charles who was inspired by the elegant ocean liners of the time. It opened on Memorial Day in 1942, just 5 months after the US entered WWII. |
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