SF Tour Guide Trivia

One of my favorite "emphatically" local blogs, The Bold Italic, asked San Francisco tour guides their favorite facts and trivia about the city. Check out Ashley Harrell's "Walk This Way."

Here are some of my favorites:

"San Francisco Bay is the largest landlocked bay in the world, but its average depth is akin to a swimming pool – 12 to 15 feet."

"The Wave Organ located on a jetty in the bay is made from rejected graveyard monuments that were left behind when San Francisco’s cemeteries were transplanted out of the city."

"The fortune cookie was created not by the Chinese, but by Japanese-American Makoto Hagiwara – the same landscape artist who designed the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park."

"Before the 1906 earthquake, there were 58,000 Victorians in San Francisco. Now there are 14,000, and that’s still enough to declare San Francisco home to the most Victorians in the United States."