I had heard that the actual blueprints to the various attractions including the fun house & haunted house dark ride is stored somewhere @ UC Berkeley. What a find that would be!!
My great great great grandfather was a buffalo soldier who was buried in San Francisco. He also stayed In the first black town in California Allensworth ca his house is the Phillips house
I spent time at Playland. Was there on closing day. The Fun House may have been my weekend babysitter. What a place. We lived on 43rd Avenue . Feel fortunate to have experienced that place.
If Playland at the Beach was there today it would be successful? My grandson was at Disneyland in Southern California complaining to his mother that he wanted to go home to Stockton to play Fortnight (A video game). My granddaughters was given the option to go to Universal Studios or go swimming, they both wanted to go swimming. I loved Playland at the Beach. But if Playland at the Beach was still there today, it still would be condominium or a bunch of sand dunes. You can't beat videos games.
I am very intrigued by this book and its alternative, yet crucial content. Thank you Lisa Ruth Elliott and Rachel Brahinsky, for these poignant stories and highly educational information. As a tour guide in San Francisco and the Bay Area, this is an eye opener for me 🙏. Very much appreciate our Guild and Roberto Natalini, for putting this together 😊.
According to Wikipedia, Cape Mendocino is the westernmost point of CA and Cape Alava,, WA, is the westernmost point of the contiguous United States. I got curious because I like looking at maps and Lands End just didn't look like the farthest west anyone could go on land in the contingious US.
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I was born in Sacramento in 1962. My parents divorced in 1966 and on my weekend visits to my dad, he would sometimes take me to Playland. In 1983, after not seeing my father for over 15 years, we reconnected. I was living in Utah and had not been back to California since I moved from there to Oregon in 1972. We had a great reunion. As we were were driving from the airport the day of our reunion, I mentioned to him a memory I had of a big electronic laughing lady, a long wavy slide and the pressurized air - all of which was rather scary to a little 5 year old girl. He was astonished that I remembered Playland and said I was probably one of the youngest people around who had a memory of it. I am happy to hear Laughing Sal lives on - as scary and creepy as she was to me back then!
My Aunts husband, Bill Huber, was Mr. Whitney's construction man. He was with Mr. Whitney from the beginning until Uncle Bill's company demolished everything.
I knew a bit of the backstory regarding Musee Mechanique, but had no idea that the carousel at the Children's Creativity Museum was originally part of Playland at the Beach.
Hi Charlene, All the money donated from this presentation, plus my own personal donation, was sent to the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians tribal office in Santa Rosa.
This brought back so many fond memories... the diving bell, the giant wood slide, laughing Sal, salt water taffy, It's It, shooting gallery. I don't remember which arcade game it was where I won a brown ceramic turtle that was a coin bank with a rubber stopper on the belly... 60 years later, and I still have that little bank!
"Shoot the Shoots" was a saying in our San Francisco family and with friends meaning "Go for it," especially w/playing cards, or that is how I visualized the spelling. My parents knew different. One Saturday circa 1954 my dad, a dentist, filled a cavity and then we went for a ride on the Big Dipper. It was that 80 foot drop that made my brand new filling not "settle," and he had to redo it. I always wondered how many oaks were cut down to make that 3 story slide. The best Fun House ride to me. Still the best to me out that way was Sutro's museum as I went up & down the stairs to ice skate after school.
Who gave this guy the title of expert for American Indians in California? This is extremely inappropriate for a non-Native person to get paid for sharing pictures and stories of our people and culture. Did he get permission from each of these tribal elders, dancers, singers, performers and activists to be in his presentation?
Hi Apes. Sorry, I just now saw your message. It is unfortunate that the host introduced me as an "expert" on Native American history. I do not identify myself that way; I have been a student of the local tribes for many years, learning from elders such as Bun Lucas who gave me many insights into the life of his ancestors. My intention was to share the things I have learned over the years so that guides include the history of the First People when talking about the history of the Bay Area - a story often neglected. I did not get paid for this presentation; any tips that people offered I sent on to the Pomo Tribe in Santa Rosa. I did send my presentation beforehand to the tribal council of each tribe to ask for their feedback but received no response from any of them. I agree that the Native People should tell their own story, so if you have suggestions on how this presentation can be redone perhaps with a Native Californian spokesperson please let me know.
Another cool vid.... My memory of this area... I went to Kittredge school - 68-76 ... We lived at 1292 La Playa street. Starting around 1970, at 8 years old, I would ride MUNI by myself to and from school. The way home, often , I would get off the #2 Clement by the hotel / eucalyptus trees....where the old green and pale yellow buses lined up... and rather than transferring to the #18 .. I would walk down past the cliff house , and then walk along the beach home. I would often look out at the Sutro baths, and I recall over the years, it was common to hear people talking about how they had once swam there. I remember one old timer saying the salt water was the demise of the place besides the fire. It was funny, looking back, I was like a ferret - wandering all over the place , in and out of cliff house, down at the old playland , nobody ever bothered me , I never bothered anyone. Great old memories...
Cool , cool vid. My family and I lived at 1292 La Playa st from 1968-1976... I was in K - 8th grade at that time. I vividly remember walking around in there during the tail end of playland. It was sad, as the fellow says. By the time I was wandering around, a lot of things were closed / in dis repair. I recall the Safeway being built, that was our shopping place every weekend. I also wandered all around and played a few games at the Cliff House. There was a restaurant that was closed at the end of La Playa by Lincoln way...right across from the Union 76 gas station . Cool memories....
Around 1962, my father moved us to a house about two blocks from the SF Zoo. I was 8 years old then and when I was around 10, my older brother and I would walk to Playland and spend a couple of hours there. And some of my most treasured memories are the times my mother brought me to Fun Tier Town. I sure miss those days. One of my favorite places at Playland was the penny arcade where all the mechanical attractions and games were. I'm so glad the majority of the attractions were saved and moved to the Musee Mecanique on Pier 45 in San Francisco. They even have a functioning Laughing Sal there.
And then the liberals figured out a way to generate money from the homeless by keeping 75 cents of every dollar spent on the homeless for administration purposes. Comes to over $30,000 per homeless per year today and that is why the city is now one big giant smelly toilet.
