Up to Speed

A licensed tour guide. Kind of.

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Tour guide, historian and flaneur "Speed" Levitch travels the nation visiting those monuments that rarely make it into travel guides, from the shoe gardens of San Francisco to the luckiest subway grate in New York City.

Aug 9, 20121 seasons6 episodesEndedEN

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Timothy "Speed" Levitch

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Seasons

Season 1

6 episodes

Premiered Aug 9, 2012

Episodes

1–6 of 6

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Ep 1

San Francisco: A City Shaped by Earthquakes

Aug 9, 2012

24m

Speed takes us on a tour of renowned objects in San Francisco – a city shaped by earthquakes that makes a point of attacking the status quo and appreciating the beauty in the unexpected.

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Ep 2

Chicago: To Conjure a Lost Neighborhood

Aug 16, 2012

24m

Speed spends a day steeped in the history of working class Chicago – a city of blue collar labor constantly fighting back against the status quo of their corporate overlords.

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Ep 3

Kansas & Missouri: In the Middle of the Middle of the Midwest

Aug 23, 2012

24m

Speed explores the idea of borders and boundaries in Lawrence, Kansas – a city straddling the line between opposing sides during the American Civil War.

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Ep 4

Virginia: The Many Flavors of Thomas Jefferson

Aug 30, 2012

24m

Speed sifts through the many flavors of Thomas Jefferson in Monticello and the University of Virginia – two historic landmarks representing the many sides of America’s most complicated founding father.

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Ep 5