Livermore Laboratory Retirees Association

The speaker at our April luncheon will be Michelle LaMarche, Volunteer San Francisco City Guide

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San Francisco City Guides offers over 70 walking tours that highlight the stories and history that make San Francisco a world renowned destination. Running for over 45 years, their tours seek to preserve and perpetuate the history and folklore of San Francisco and to celebrate its rich history of cultural diversity. Michelle LaMarche has been one of hundreds of volunteer guides who lead tours every day, rain or shine, throughout the city. She will introduce us to SF City Guides walking tours. Michelle will condense her talk to San Francisco Downtown Architecture tour and introduce us to the various styles of architecture, the stories behind the original owners, the architects who designed them and the challenges to have them built in a city of hills, earthquakes, fire and sand.

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Michelle retired 3 years ago from a 35+ year career in Sales both in high tech and almost 10 years at Stoneridge Creek Retirement Community .  She and her husband moved from Silicon Valley and have lived in Pleasanton and Livermore since 1994. She has an MBA from Santa Clara University and a California teaching credential, having taught US History at Foothill High School in Pleasanton and substitute teaching for over 9 years while raising 2 children.  She enjoys riding BART, loves SF, walks 12,000 steps every day, and is a self-described "history geek,." Volunteering as a San Francisco City Guide for almost 3 years is a perfect fit for her high energy and the early part of the retirement chapter of her life.