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From Playland to wasteland: The demise of San Francisco's iconic amusement park

From Playland to wasteland: The demise of San Francisco's iconic amusement park
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Giant Camera


Giant Camera
June 2002
The proprietor sits behind a window in a tiny room not much larger than a phone booth. He collects the $1 admission and directs you to the door. Enjoy the view.
You enter a small, dimly lit room. In the center of the room is a large parabolic disc. It glows with the swirling active motion of the rocky Pacific coast. The view is hypnotizing. You are standing in the belly of the San Francisco s Giant Camera camera obscura -a functioning relic.
The Jennings Giant Camera was built by Floyd Jennings in 1946 on the observation deck behind the Cliff House, which is as far west as you can go in San Francisco. It was built as an extension of Playland-at-the-Beach amusement park under then owner George Whitney, who also owned the Cliff House and Sutro Baths. Playland was demolished 30 years ago, the Giant Camera remains nearly hidden behind the Cliff House, and has kept its vigilant 360-degree eye on the surrounding Pacific Ocean, jagged Seal Ro ....

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Streetwise - Playtime in the Avenues - Western Neighborhoods Project


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Children s games and activities of the past in the Outside Lands
Streetwise - Playtime in the Avenues
by Frank Dunnigan
Frank Dunnigan, WNP member and columnist. -
It’s been noted a few times on the message boards how children today seem to be growing up without many of the amusements that we had back in the 1950s and 1960s not the least of these being a weekend visit to Playland-at-the-Beach. With today’s proliferation of various hand-held electronic devices, certain aspects of childhood play seem entirely lost to the present generation of kids. Even though all of us knew how to amuse ourselves with a deck of cards and a game of solitaire, that was a rather infrequent activity, compared to what we usually did as a group. ....

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