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I loved playland and sal terified me and you left out some of my favorites was model car raceway and topsey roost that was a night club dance place that you rode slides down to dance floor. The reason it got kind of rough was Khrushchev said 1959 that the soviets would destroy America from within without firing a shot and the first attack as the American communists wrote a book on feminism and many women got divorced along with alimony, child support, no fault divorce, sold family home and boys were abandoned with no live in dad same with war on poverty boys turned to gangs, drugs and guns. They also had Capt Satelites helecopter that was a canadian traning copter into a ride. .They had a 22 rifle attraction that no one ever shot anyone. The Diving Bell and bumper cars. I worked on those condos that were built and they had trouble. Also the great highway had tunnels under it no stoplights and you could ride your dirt bike and ride on the beach. I was a magic time and place

When life was fun

I CAME-OUT to "Play-land @ the beach its last day as the Play :-)

Can we please have more historical native updates? I’m trying to hit it big time!🤟🏽🤟🏽

Wonderful presentation!

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.

🙌🙌Awesome History presentation!!

Started going in 1945

I don't understand why people need to point out if a business is owned by women or bi sexual people/queer people. Who cares.

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 was there, I was one of the bad kids.

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.

Are these available out of that state In Arizona a lot of these products are not available out here I like that there is some that have 5 mg of THC in the 1 mg of CBD I would love to get something like

I wish I lived in a state that cannabis is legal.

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!

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WOW!

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.

... the diving bell was my favorite..!!!..

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.

I remember Playland from the sixties with the diving bell and the rides. And of the beach it was on. I was very young at that time.

Fond memories as child JFK presidency era and pre-liability laws so recall turntable ride and super wood slides and visits to Cliff House.

Was Woody the inspiration for PIXAR'S Toy Story Woody ? 1:10:59

Plus u pink pale face people Crack me up thinking yall natives as well lmao

I'm sorry but yall is not even natives to America or California

My mom graduated from Mercy High in 1958. :)

This was brilliant 👏

Our elders never got any food boxes where did the money go?I never heard of this guy.

I wonder if there was any paranormal stories anyone has to tell that was present there?

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.

I remember eating mexican food at the Bull pup restaurant and of course the fun house

I remember having to rent a woolen swimsuit and as a little kid I HATED that suit.

California Vineyard is golden thank you, for this talk.

Thank you for this documentary

babes unless you're Indigenous you're not any kinda "native san franciscan". thanks for the history tho.

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?

Muni was 5 cents in San Francisco for kids in 1977

Does not look like a pool made for people to swim in. More like a processing plant for copper or water treatment.

Harold Washington RIP! TRUE BLUE HEROES!

Great talk. Thanks

Great talk. Thanks

with respect ... i quit listening when u began with "take the vaccine"

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.