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Logic is not on the route of the concrete? Than the natural earth did not soil. The bend of merely a pebble at the rock of that is the quarry or is it the material used made by man? These shallows are only the water of a creek that rain made the sleet not applicable as it is not snowing on the sidewalk of a search engine however that is not fact as the running advertisements bring a pixel effect. Distraction or cold?
Treat a Store's front as a flat rate? Than at that would the curbside stand ventured as a sidewalk stand mail a purchase to relief or distraction? Should thereby be a street, is the advertisement on the Bus a bend as in the mind to that hand to door? Still are the banking skills. To bravo a C.B. is chatter in the logic and yet the language clear. The map of the computer is on a version of Microsoft leaving the option of File, Edit, View, History, Bookmarks, Tools and Help, is there logic in the view of that last straight bar's message? To staff the mind at the brain's price is the computer an example of the miss, or the verse to tangible just a crosswalk?
Questions beyond that is the simplicity of Niagara Falls. Should the Niagara have chosen a different path to shale than the rains of just the Grand Canyon would have established what? Depth to mention dictates a river to that as the waterfalls of how Time in the Ages charges Flood? Does the mark of such depth mark those buried treasures and/or Cities that dug deep to stay out of the Sun as in a Mars atmosphere, and, in the burst of Solar System and/or the Sun flares does march raft explanation? Thus the Grand Canyon in beast may have presented a fall-in to say that a river is more than a sewer. Therefore should the archaeologist looked above the Grand Canyon for possible history of, or remains of, a greater civilization? The trajectory of the Ocean and possible the Roman Baths, i.e. water system, may be considered in said, as the run-off would have had to have had the same as CalTrans berth to the Great Highway. Just the covering of the Great Highway with high winds would have to in-addition have to be considered as the weight of the sand to the undergirth of development, same with the Safeway Lot where Playland once sat in direct comparison.
To return question in logic to the lap of the owner of said Store. Does the Sun melt? Did the Planet face or turn? Hot, cold and that fun raises not a burst of thought from but rather too? Even at the arithmetic is the flare of the Solar burst an expression that has yet to be deciphered? To smile a charge might your ankle know Achilles!! :)
References:
Playland (also known as Playland at the Beach and Whitney's Playland beginning in 1928) was a 10-acre (40,000 m2) seaside amusement park located next to Ocean Beach, in the Richmond District at the western edge of San Francisco, California along Great Highway where Cabrillo and Balboa streets are now.[1] It began as a collection of amusement rides and concessions in the late 19th century and was known as Chutes At The Beach as early as 1913. It closed Labor Day weekend in 1972.
The various rides and attractions that began to spring up along the beach were separately owned by various concessionaires.[4] For example, John Friedle owned a shooting gallery and baseball-throwing concession. All of the rides at Chutes at the Beach were purchased new or built there, including the Shoot-the-Chutes, which inspired the first official name for the amusement area — Chutes at the Beach. [5]
Around 1913, Arthur Looff leased a piece of land for a carousel and its house — the Looff Hippodrome, located next to John Friedle's concessions. Friedle and Looff become partners in Looff’s Hippodrome and began to buy other concessions[4] to realize their vision of creating "the grandest amusement park on the Pacific coast."[2] By 1921, they had ten rides, including the Shoot-the-Chutes.[3] A writer for the San Francisco Chronicle in 1922 reported that “by 1921 the owners had spent $150,000 to produce ten spectacular new rides ("clean, safe, moral attractions") which were open from noon to midnight, everyday.” [6] Attractions included Arthur Looff’s roller coaster the "Bob Sled Dipper" (also known as "the Bobs") (1921), the Looff-designed Big Dipper roller coaster (1922), Shoot-the-Chutes, the carousel, Aeroplane Swing, the Whip, Dodg 'Em, the Ship of Joy, the Ferris wheel, Noah’s Ark, and almost a hundred concessionaires.[3]
In 1923, George and Leo Whitney hit town.[3]
The Whitney brothers opened a photographic concession that year,
pioneering a fast photo-finishing process that allowed people to take
pictures home rather than having to wait days for the film to be
developed and images printed.[8] By 1924, the Whitney brothers owned four shooting galleries and a souvenir shop in addition to the quick-photo studio.[3]
Although Playland's attractions originally sat upon leased land, the Whitneys eventually purchased the land beneath Playland, as well as several adjacent lots for future expansion. In 1937, George Whitney, Sr. purchased the then-vacant Cliff House from the Sutro estate and reopened it as an upscale roadhouse that same year.[9] George Whitney was called “The Barnum of the Golden Gate” as he went on to buy up the concessions and even bought the Sutro Baths in 1952. He bought out his brother in 1952 and continued to operate the area on his own until his death in 1958.[3]
Despite this expansion, the post-war years saw the tearing down of the Shoot the Chutes in 1950 and the Big Dipper in 1955, and after George Whitney died in 1958, Playland was never quite the same.[3] For a while after George Whitney's death, Playland was operated by his son, George K. Whitney, Jr. and then by Bob Frazier.[9] It was eventually sold to Jeremy Ets-Hokin (a millionaire developer) in 1971 and torn down on September 4, 1972.[8] Condominiums were built on the Playland property, and a permanent art project commemorating Playland was installed in 1996.[2]
By 1922, the attractions included Arthur Looff’s “Bob Sled Dipper” (the Bobs) (1921), the Looff-designed Big Dipper (1922), the Shoot-the-chutes, the carousel, Aeroplane Swing, The Whip (ride), Dodg 'Em, the Ship of Joy, the Ferris wheel, Noah’s Ark, and almost 100 concessionaires.[3]
At various times, the rides at Playland included: Skyliner, Rocketship, Big Dipper, Big Slide, Dodg 'Em (bumper cars), Limbo (dark house), Kookie Kube, Dark Mystery (which started as an African-themed dark ride but was redone in the 1950s with a Dali-esque surrealistic facade), the Mad Mine (a dark ride that literally covered over Dark Mystery), Scrambler, Twister, and Kiddie Bulgy. Another favorite was the Diving Bell, a metal chamber that took guests under water and then returned them to the surface with a big splash. This ride originated at the 1939-40 Golden Gate Exposition on Treasure Island. George Whitney commissioned the inventor to build another one at Playland on the southeast block of the park. After a decade, the attraction was rebuilt on the northwest block, where it remained until Playland's closing in 1972.
Arthur Looff actually commissioned the carousel in 1904 for a little amusement park that was originally on Market and Van Ness in San Francisco, but because of the earthquake in 1906, the carousel was shipped to Luna Park, Seattle, Washington.[4]
It was not until 1913 that Looff leased land for the carousel and its
house, the Looff Hippodrome, that the carousel came to Playland. Looff’s
Hippodrome at Chutes-at-the-Beach was the first permanently installed
concession in 1914. The carousel was an elegant 68-horse merry-go-round
with a $5,000 organ (an astonishingly large sum at the time).[8] The Playland 1914 Wurlitzer 165 band organ can be seen and heard at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk's 1911 Looff carousel house, along with the Boardwalk's original 1894 Ruth & Sohn Band Organ.
The carousel was sold at the Playland auction in 1972 to a private collector and stored in Roswell, New Mexico for restoration until 1984, when it was sold to the city of Long Beach, California. San Francisco bought the carousel in 1998, and it is now located off Fourth Street downtown in Yerba Buena Gardens.[3]
Among the more popular concessions was the Fun House, originally called the Bug House, erected in 1923-24. Laffing Sal was the laughing automated character whose cackle echoed throughout the park.[8] After Playland was closed, one of the original animatrons was relocated to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.[10] The Laughing Sal from the fun house is now located in the Musée Mécanique in San Francisco.[11] The last remaining Walking Charley figure is located at Playland-Not-At-The-Beach.
Patrons entered by first passing through a mirror maze which had originally been a separate attraction on the opposite side of the midway. Next, patrons squeezed through the spin-dryers and entered the main area of the Fun House, which contained a Joy Wheel (flat wooden disc that spun quickly and forced kids to slide off), the Barrel of Laughs (rotating walk-through wooden barrel), the Moving Bridges (connected gang planks that went up and down), and the Rocking Horses (attached by strong springs to a moving platform creating quite a galloping sensation).[12] The Fun House had air jets, rickety catwalks, steep, moving and rocking staircases, the topsy-turvy barrel, and the three-story climb up to the top of "the longest, bumpiest indoor slide in the world,"[8] and a 200-foot (61 m) indoor slide. The Santa Cruz Boardwalk had a funhouse with an identical interior (but not exterior) until it was remodeled in 1983.
The famous funhouse mirror sequence at the end of Orson Welles's The Lady from Shanghai (1948) was filmed in Hollywood, but in the last moments of the movie, the exterior shot of Welles walking past the Funhouse was filmed at Playland. Laughing Sal is nowhere to be seen because curtains hide her on the second floor bay window above Welles' head. In the background as Welles crosses the street, the Laff in the Dark is clearly visible. The name on the Funhouse was changed to "Crazy House" during the filming of this sequence.
In 1929, George Whitney opened a nearby "chicken shack" restaurant known as Topsy’s Roost located just north of Playland at the foot of Sutro Heights.[9] Driving south along the beach from the Cliff House, the first building you came to was Topsy’s Roost, which become more than just a chicken dinner house—it was also a popular nightclub. It had a live orchestra and dance floor and was decorated so it looked like the patrons were sitting in ramshackle chicken coops.
There was seating on the main floor around the dance floor as well as
the balcony. Patrons sitting on the balcony level could slide from their
coops down to the dance floor if they wanted to dance. Eventually
Topsy’s Roost closed, and the space became Skateland and later, the
Slotcar Raceway.[8]
On course of thought to a sticker-price, is the entry of said stack a library or a trap? To run the further before the entry to person's think is the sidewalk of search a front of War? Questions to bother? Or, is it as the price set point to the UPS that makes the UPC a version of the sell?
Logic is not on the route of the concrete? Than the natural earth did not soil. The bend of merely a pebble at the rock of that is the quarry or is it the material used made by man? These shallows are only the water of a creek that rain made the sleet not applicable as it is not snowing on the sidewalk of a search engine however that is not fact as the running advertisements bring a pixel effect. Distraction or cold?
Treat a Store's front as a flat rate? Than at that would the curbside stand ventured as a sidewalk stand mail a purchase to relief or distraction? Should thereby be a street, is the advertisement on the Bus a bend as in the mind to that hand to door? Still are the banking skills. To bravo a C.B. is chatter in the logic and yet the language clear. The map of the computer is on a version of Microsoft leaving the option of File, Edit, View, History, Bookmarks, Tools and Help, is there logic in the view of that last straight bar's message? To staff the mind at the brain's price is the computer an example of the miss, or the verse to tangible just a crosswalk?
Questions beyond that is the simplicity of Niagara Falls. Should the Niagara have chosen a different path to shale than the rains of just the Grand Canyon would have established what? Depth to mention dictates a river to that as the waterfalls of how Time in the Ages charges Flood? Does the mark of such depth mark those buried treasures and/or Cities that dug deep to stay out of the Sun as in a Mars atmosphere, and, in the burst of Solar System and/or the Sun flares does march raft explanation? Thus the Grand Canyon in beast may have presented a fall-in to say that a river is more than a sewer. Therefore should the archaeologist looked above the Grand Canyon for possible history of, or remains of, a greater civilization? The trajectory of the Ocean and possible the Roman Baths, i.e. water system, may be considered in said, as the run-off would have had to have had the same as CalTrans berth to the Great Highway. Just the covering of the Great Highway with high winds would have to in-addition have to be considered as the weight of the sand to the undergirth of development, same with the Safeway Lot where Playland once sat in direct comparison.
To return question in logic to the lap of the owner of said Store. Does the Sun melt? Did the Planet face or turn? Hot, cold and that fun raises not a burst of thought from but rather too? Even at the arithmetic is the flare of the Solar burst an expression that has yet to be deciphered? To smile a charge might your ankle know Achilles!! :)
References:
Playland (San Francisco)
Playland in 1918
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| Location | Ocean Beach San Francisco, California |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 37°46′24″N 122°30′43″WCoordinates: 37°46′24″N 122°30′43″W |
| Opened | 1913 |
| Closed | 1972 |
| Previous names | Mooneysville-by-the-Sea, Chutes At The Beach, Playland at the Beach, Whitney's Playland |
| Area | 10 acres (40,000 m2) |
Contents
History
Before Playland
The area that was Playland began as a 19th-century squatter's settlement, "Mooneysville-by-the-Sea".[2] By 1884, a steam railroad was in place to bring people to the first amusement ride at the City’s ocean side — a "Gravity Railroad" roller coaster, and to the Ocean Beach Pavilion for concerts and dancing. By 1890, trolley lines reached Ocean Beach — the Ferries and Cliff House Railroad, the Park & Ocean Railroad, and the Sutro Railroad — that encouraged commercial amusement development as a trolley park.[3] The Cliff House, which opened in 1863, and Sutro Baths, which opened in 1896, drew thousands of visitors.[2]The various rides and attractions that began to spring up along the beach were separately owned by various concessionaires.[4] For example, John Friedle owned a shooting gallery and baseball-throwing concession. All of the rides at Chutes at the Beach were purchased new or built there, including the Shoot-the-Chutes, which inspired the first official name for the amusement area — Chutes at the Beach. [5]
Around 1913, Arthur Looff leased a piece of land for a carousel and its house — the Looff Hippodrome, located next to John Friedle's concessions. Friedle and Looff become partners in Looff’s Hippodrome and began to buy other concessions[4] to realize their vision of creating "the grandest amusement park on the Pacific coast."[2] By 1921, they had ten rides, including the Shoot-the-Chutes.[3] A writer for the San Francisco Chronicle in 1922 reported that “by 1921 the owners had spent $150,000 to produce ten spectacular new rides ("clean, safe, moral attractions") which were open from noon to midnight, everyday.” [6] Attractions included Arthur Looff’s roller coaster the "Bob Sled Dipper" (also known as "the Bobs") (1921), the Looff-designed Big Dipper roller coaster (1922), Shoot-the-Chutes, the carousel, Aeroplane Swing, the Whip, Dodg 'Em, the Ship of Joy, the Ferris wheel, Noah’s Ark, and almost a hundred concessionaires.[3]
Playland's big Dipper [7]:63
Playland
In 1926, George Whitney became general manager of the growing complex of seaside attractions and changed the name to Playland-at-the-Beach, also sometimes known as Whitney's at the Beach.[8][9] Although the attractions continued to be operated as independent concessionaires, during the late 1920s and 1930s, especially during the Depression when concessions began to fail, George and Leo began to purchase the attractions outright.[9] The Whitneys bought the roller coaster in 1936 and the merry-go-round in 1942.[8] Playland took up three city blocks and, in 1934, the Midway had 14 rides, 25 concessions, and 4 restaurants besides Topsy's Roost.[8]Although Playland's attractions originally sat upon leased land, the Whitneys eventually purchased the land beneath Playland, as well as several adjacent lots for future expansion. In 1937, George Whitney, Sr. purchased the then-vacant Cliff House from the Sutro estate and reopened it as an upscale roadhouse that same year.[9] George Whitney was called “The Barnum of the Golden Gate” as he went on to buy up the concessions and even bought the Sutro Baths in 1952. He bought out his brother in 1952 and continued to operate the area on his own until his death in 1958.[3]
Despite this expansion, the post-war years saw the tearing down of the Shoot the Chutes in 1950 and the Big Dipper in 1955, and after George Whitney died in 1958, Playland was never quite the same.[3] For a while after George Whitney's death, Playland was operated by his son, George K. Whitney, Jr. and then by Bob Frazier.[9] It was eventually sold to Jeremy Ets-Hokin (a millionaire developer) in 1971 and torn down on September 4, 1972.[8] Condominiums were built on the Playland property, and a permanent art project commemorating Playland was installed in 1996.[2]
Attractions
The Shoot-the-chutes
At various times, the rides at Playland included: Skyliner, Rocketship, Big Dipper, Big Slide, Dodg 'Em (bumper cars), Limbo (dark house), Kookie Kube, Dark Mystery (which started as an African-themed dark ride but was redone in the 1950s with a Dali-esque surrealistic facade), the Mad Mine (a dark ride that literally covered over Dark Mystery), Scrambler, Twister, and Kiddie Bulgy. Another favorite was the Diving Bell, a metal chamber that took guests under water and then returned them to the surface with a big splash. This ride originated at the 1939-40 Golden Gate Exposition on Treasure Island. George Whitney commissioned the inventor to build another one at Playland on the southeast block of the park. After a decade, the attraction was rebuilt on the northwest block, where it remained until Playland's closing in 1972.
Carousel
Carousel organ, now at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
The carousel was sold at the Playland auction in 1972 to a private collector and stored in Roswell, New Mexico for restoration until 1984, when it was sold to the city of Long Beach, California. San Francisco bought the carousel in 1998, and it is now located off Fourth Street downtown in Yerba Buena Gardens.[3]
Fun House
Laffing Sal at the Musée Mécanique
Patrons entered by first passing through a mirror maze which had originally been a separate attraction on the opposite side of the midway. Next, patrons squeezed through the spin-dryers and entered the main area of the Fun House, which contained a Joy Wheel (flat wooden disc that spun quickly and forced kids to slide off), the Barrel of Laughs (rotating walk-through wooden barrel), the Moving Bridges (connected gang planks that went up and down), and the Rocking Horses (attached by strong springs to a moving platform creating quite a galloping sensation).[12] The Fun House had air jets, rickety catwalks, steep, moving and rocking staircases, the topsy-turvy barrel, and the three-story climb up to the top of "the longest, bumpiest indoor slide in the world,"[8] and a 200-foot (61 m) indoor slide. The Santa Cruz Boardwalk had a funhouse with an identical interior (but not exterior) until it was remodeled in 1983.
The famous funhouse mirror sequence at the end of Orson Welles's The Lady from Shanghai (1948) was filmed in Hollywood, but in the last moments of the movie, the exterior shot of Welles walking past the Funhouse was filmed at Playland. Laughing Sal is nowhere to be seen because curtains hide her on the second floor bay window above Welles' head. In the background as Welles crosses the street, the Laff in the Dark is clearly visible. The name on the Funhouse was changed to "Crazy House" during the filming of this sequence.
Fun-Tier
Playland also included a “Fun-tier” Town for “little western gals and little cowboys,” which was an area with ten rides geared for children with western motif and a place for birthday parties. "Fun-Tier" Town sat on the land where the Laff in the Dark attraction had been for decades.[13]Camera obscura
The Giant Camera Obscura was built in 1948-49 as part of the Playland at the Beach amusement area. It was moved to a location next to the Cliff House when Playland closed and is still present in the Cliff House area.[14]Roller coasters
- Figure-8—Opened 1920, demolished and replaced by the Big Dipper July 1922. A soon-outdated side-friction roller coaster with three levels.[7]:46,53,54,145
- Bob Sled Dipper—Opened 1921, demolished 1929. The Bob Sled Dipper (or Bobs) was a state-of-the-art toboggan-style coaster ride with rides seated in tandem in two-passenger cars strung eight to a train. It was closed in 1929 after an accident that caused injuries to seven passengers; two were severe. The accident may have precipitated the transfer of the park from John Friedle to the Whitney Brothers. This ride was also called The Grizzly.[7]:3,48,50–52,83,145
- Big Dipper—Opened 1922. It was supposedly a Prior & Church design built by Arthur Looff, and it lasted 33 years, being demolished in 1956. It had a "gut-wrenching 80-foot drop." A man was thrown from this ride and killed.[7]:46,64,64,74,145
- Sleigh Ride.[7]
- Alpine Racer—Operative 1959–72. It was situated on the southeast corner of Playland's south block, but the area was closed in 1964 or 1965, and the Racer stood idle for about a year until it was moved to the northwest corner of the main block. This was a German-made wild mouse ride imported by Mack Duce's Export Sales Corporation.[15]
Topsy’s Roost
Topsy's Roost Restaurant postcard
Food
The It's-It ice cream sandwich was invented in 1928 by George Whitney and sold only at Playland-at-the-Beach. In fact, for 40 years, Playland was the only place you could find It's It. After the demolition of Playland in 1972, the ice cream treat was made and sold elsewhere and is now sold in stores in 15 states.[16]Wikipedia development (Faceplate for Tony Robbins) @TonyRobbins
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