Monday, June 4, 2012

Are Tourists Ruining Alamo Square?

Monday, June 4, 2012
There's a lot to see in the area surrounding Alamo Square: the gorgeous view of downtown from Eastern side of the park, the house everyone mistakenly assumes was the setting for Full House, the non-stop dance party on The Wiggle.

Given this veritable cornucopia of interesting and visually appealing sites, it makes perfect sense that Alamo Square has increasingly become a hotspot for tour buses over the past decade. But this trend has started to rub the neighborhood's inhabitants the wrong way.
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