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Playland (also known as Playland-at-the-Beach and Whitney's Playland, beginning in 1928 [1] – some say 1926 [2]) was a 10-acre (40,000-square-meter) seaside amusement park located next to Ocean Beach, in the Richmond District at the western edge of San Francisco, California, along Great Highway, bounded by Balboa and Fulton streets. [1]
Coyote Point Park, San Mateo: 1922–1923 Pacific Ocean Park: Santa Monica: 1958–1967 Pierpoint Landing: Long Beach: 1948–1972 The Pike: Long Beach: 1902–1979 Playland at the Beach: San Francisco: 1913–1972 Rock-A-Hoola Waterpark: Newberry Springs: 1962–2004 Formerly Lake Dolores Waterpark Santa's Village: Lake Arrowhead: 1955–1998
The It's-It was invented in 1928 by George Whitney, one of the original business owners when San Francisco's Playland at the Beach opened across the Great Highway from Ocean Beach. [1] [4] One version of the name's origins is that Whitney was experimenting and cried out "It's-It!" when he hit on the combination of a sandwich of vanilla ice ...
The museum's move sparked protests by San Francisco locals. An online petition was created opposing it, with over 12,000 signatures. Many of the protesters believed that the money was unavailable to fund the move and renovations, and many had strong feelings about the museum's historical and nostalgic significance from its history at Playland ...
Playland (San Francisco), a former amusement park in San Francisco, California, U.S. Playland Café, a historic gay bar in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Dodge Park Playland, a former amusement park in Council Bluffs, Iowa, U.S. Rockaways' Playland, a former amusement park in Queens, New York, U.S. Playland-Not-At-The-Beach, a non-profit museum in ...
This is a list of songs about San Francisco Bay Area, California: either refer to, are set there, named after a location or feature of the city, ...
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Actors Grace George and Herbert Hayes performed an entire play from a San Francisco station in the summer of 1922. [ 11 ] An important turning point in radio drama came when Schenectady, New York 's WGY , after a successful tryout on August 3, 1922, began weekly studio broadcasts of full-length stage plays in September 1922, [ 12 ] using music ...