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Take a tour of the historic San Francisco Armory located in the heart of the Mission district.
The Armory tour is led by employees of Kink.com, the adult video production company that acquired the building in late 2006. The hour-long tour will take you though all five floors of the landmark building and allow you to explore the facilities originally built to service the National Guard, as well as the elaborate and cinematic sets that have since been constructed by Kink.com’s Art Department for use as production studios.
Minimum age for entry 18, with valid ID.
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History
Established in 1997.
In January, 2007 Armory Studios, LLC announced that it had acquired the San Francisco National Guard Armory and Arsenal located at the corner of 14th and Mission Street.
This 200,000 square foot reproduction Moorish Castle was completed in 1914 and was used as a National Guard facility until 1976. It retains original period details including wainscoting, stone staircases, sweeping corridors, cavernous access to Mission Creek, and a gigantic drill court spanning almost an acre. It served as both a barricade and safety point for officers during rioting in San Francisco in 1934. Though for most of the past 40 years, it has sat vacant, it was used by George Lucas to film the first Star Wars movie.
The Armory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and had been out of official use since that time.
Meet the Business Owner
Peter A.
Business Owner
Peter grew up in Derbyshire, England, the son of a sculptor and former Jesuit priest. From a young age, Peter showed strong entrepreneurial instincts selling vegetables from the family garden and brewing homemade beer to sell to his school friends. He studied Mathematics at Cambridge and Management at Ecole HEC, Paris. After completing his Master’s degree, he started a PhD in finance at Columbia Business School in NYC. At the end of his first year, he was inspired by an article about a fireman who’d made half a million pounds selling adult content on the Internet. Seeing an opportunity to combine his interest in bondage with his nose for business, Peter launched his first website, Hogtied.com, which he ran from his dorm room for the subsequent year. In 1998, Peter decided to leave the PhD program and move to San Francisco to found Cybernet Entertainment, LLC, which over the next decade grew into the thriving conglomerate of kinky BDSM and fetish websites that are now known as Kink.com.
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