Step aboard Magic Bus and back in time! With bubbles in the air and a flower in your hair, feel yourself transported to the Summer of Love. Passing streets blend with historic projections on retractable window screens, creating a immersive experience so you can tune in, turn on and rock out! Our hippie hostess will guide you through time and space, sharing the cultural landmarks and secrets of San Francisco's hippie movement. Feel yourself transported to 1960s San Francisco aboard Magic Bus for a fun-filled historical city tour. Become a part of the Beatnik generation, see Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love and visit San Francisco’s Chinatown, from which eastern philosophy spread in the 1960s. Discover the landmarks and secrets of iconic neighborhoods as they are now with your own eyes, and see the past come alive with retractable projection screens that occasionally cover the windows, giving you a look back in time.
Summer Showtimes (Until September 1st):
Tuesdays-Saturdays 10AM and 12:30PM with an additional showtime at 3PM on Saturdays
Board the brightly colored Magic Bus at 280 Geary Street in Union Square, San Francisco, just across from Macy’s and closest to the corner of Geary and Powell streets. Your journey through time begins as you are transported from Union Square to Chinatown, a culturally vibrant pocket of San Francisco that is home to the largest populations of Chinese in America. Chinatown was a major influence on American exposure to eastern philosophies in the 1960s and beyond.
Next, visit North Beach, where you will see the City Lights bookstore. City Lights was the epicenter of profound social change in San Francisco, where many famous Beat-generation poems were published and Beatniks like Jack Kerouac hung out.
As your Magic ride continues, modern San Francisco blends with the past while you travel through the Financial District and central Market Street en route to the crossroads of the Summer of Love, Haight and Asbury streets.
Having experienced the famous Haight through windows of time-altered perception, your next destination is the lush gardens of Golden Gate Park for a stop at Conservatory of Flowers. Hear how America’s largest urban park hosted the first Human Be-In and the first Earth Day. You may even join a drum circle!
