Ride the Ducks is a national duck tour operator, and an eponymous tourist attraction in U.S. cities such as Branson, Missouri; Newport, Kentucky; San Francisco, California; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Stone Mountain Park, Georgia. It makes use of over 90 amphibious vehicles (nicknamed "ducks") to provide tours of cities by boat and by land. Ride the Ducks is owned by Herschend Family Entertainment Corporation, which is involved in various family entertainment ventures.
Ride the Ducks of San Francisco also operates Classic Cable Car Sightseeing in which customers can take a city tour on a San Francisco Classic Cable Car. Some are original cable cars from the California Street Cable Car Line dating back to the late 19th century/early 20th century. All others were built from the ground up using the original cable car blueprints and constructed of solid oak and brass.
Similar duck-boat based tours operate in other cities (such as Cincinnati, Boston, Portland, Seattle, and Toronto), but are not operated by Ride The Ducks. Ride The Ducks has provided vehicles to some of these other companies, such as their relationship with Boston's Duck Tours.
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Famous quotes containing the words ride the, ride and/or ducks:
“How soon I may ride the whole world about;
And at the third question thou must not shrink,
But tell me here truly what I do think.””
—Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 30–32)
“Not too many years ago, a child’s experience was limited by how far he or she could ride a bicycle or by the physical boundaries that parents set. Today ... the real boundaries of a child’s life are set more by the number of available cable channels and videotapes, by the simulated reality of videogames, by the number of megabytes of memory in the home computer. Now kids can go anywhere, as long as they stay inside the electronic bubble.”
—Richard Louv (20th century)
“The only ones who are really grateful for the war are the wild ducks, such a lot of them in the marshes of the Rhone and so peaceful ... because all the shot-guns have been taken away completely taken away and nobody can shoot with them nobody at all and the wild ducks are very content. They act as of they had never been shot at, never, it is so easy to form old habits again, so very easy.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)