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are San Francisco Treasure Hunts different?SF Treasure Hunts show players the secret spots and hidden treasures of San Francisco and other locales, the off-the-beaten track locations that most visitors, and many residents never see. A common refrain from SF Treasure Hunts participants, including long-time San Francisco residents is "I never knew this place existed!"
Participating in a SF Treasure Hunt is like stepping back in time to the San Francisco of the 1880s, the 1920s, or the 1950s. Many clues lead to historic locations that hearken back to the days of the Barbary Coast, the roaring Twenties, or the beat poets and writers. Clues (sometimes including vintage street scene photographs) challenge hunters to find the vestiges of the San Francisco of long ago. Seeing these reminders of the City's rich and colorful past transports players back to the intimate, foggy San Francisco memorialized in films and books, the "cool gray city of love," that has seduced generations of visitors with its unique charm.
SF Treasure hunters walk in the footsteps of gold rush miners, silver bonanza robber barons, grand eccentrics like Emperor Norton, and famed authors like Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain and Dashiell Hammett.
SF Treasure Hunts are renowned for increasing participants' awareness of, and appreciation for their environment. They come away paying greater attention to the sights and sounds around them, to the nuances of the urban landscape that most folks overlook and ignore. The "joy of discovery" that SF Treasure Hunts provide opens doors to the creative process. It can spur your colleagues and employees to not only "think outside the box," but to view problems through a different prism entirely, to imagine a completely different set of geometric shapes beyond the conventional square. Just as a few hours gazing through a telescope at the stars makes us ponder our assumptions about time, distance, and proportion, a few hours seeing our city or town afresh can invigorate our thinking, broaden our awareness and insight, and help us bring new and creative approaches to our daily tasks.
