Playland at the Beach Movie Trailer.mov

[duncan95619]

My wife and I are going to SF this weekend, I was born and raised in SF 1957 and of course this place was the coolest, that and the ice rink under the museum by the Cliff House. Your video brought back a lot of memories. Now if I can only find some on the Saturday night drag racing we used to do on the Great Hwy in front of where the Fun House was. And don't forget racing on Brotherhood way and heading to A&W after. Those were the days of glory.

Thank you for this video.

Duncan Finlayson

[garyisyt]

....Between 1945 and the mid-fifties or at least when it was open during the war. Yeah, I repeat, what a time to have grown up! I remember the kid getting killed on the Big Dipper, that old then, rickety roller coaster! We sawn at Sutros all summer for ten twelve years.

[garyisyt]

My friends and I spent hundreds of hours there between 1945 or at least when it was open during the war. I was born in SF 1938. Yeah, what a time to have grown up!

[firehorsedude]

My mom and / or dad would take my brother and I to this fun park.. The 1960's and early 1970's were really diffrent of todays San Francisco, CA. The city is ever growing and changing. Still love my city by the bay. Just wish I could afford to live there. To think my mother only paid $ 200.00 a month for a two bedroom Apt near Crissy Field.

[LILSILENT89]

SAN FRANCISCO NEEDS TO BRING THIS BACK, GIVE SANTA CRUZ A RUN FOR THEIR MONEY! I WOULD KILL TO HAVE GREW UP IN THIS TIME!

[rogerrrubin]

In the 1950's I lived in Oakland. Playland was just a two block walk to the Key System train, over the bridge to San Francisco. Grab a street car to the beach. After that it was fun, fun, fun for the day and then back over the Bay Bridge to home in what I now consider (having moved to The City in 1964) the Far East. We also went up the hill to the Cliff House and watched the seals on the rocks beyond the shore. :>}

[stevemurtha]

We lived up in Miraloma Park near Mt. Davidson, and I can remember my buddies and I skateboarding all the way down to Playland (down Laguna Honda to 7th Ave, through GG park, and then down Fulton all the way to the beach)---we used to have a blast back then in the mid-60's---no cellphones or GPS for your folks to track you--just be back by dinnertime! We used to love the FunHouse, and unfortunately, by this time...most of the rides had ceased to exist vs. their full glory of earlier decades.

[LynnetteFrary]

This made me cry! I use to have so much fun there ... I remember my friend falling in the moving "tunnel" and busting his lip open, and losing three teeth ... we were having so much fun, that he kept playing, even with blood dripping down his face. Ah, good times

[m459]

Lived in the Richmond district in SF and Pacifica in the 60s and 70s and spent many weekends at playland until it shut down in 1972. Thanks for the memories