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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]
San Jose: 1910–1916 Marine World/Africa U.S.A. Redwood City: 1968–1986 Marineland of the Pacific: Rancho Palos Verdes: 1954–1987 Marshal Scotty's Playland Park: El Cajon: 1967–1998 Neptune Beach: Alameda: 1917–1939 Neverland Valley Ranch: Santa Barbara County: 1988–2006 Ocean Park Pier Santa Monica: 1926–1956 Pacific City Coyote ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Laffing Sal in her display case at the Musée Mécanique in San Francisco. A Laffing Sal is seen gazing down on stars Audrey Totter and Edmond O'Brien in the 1953 film Man in the Dark, which was filmed on the Ocean Park Pier. [7] A Laffing Sal appears briefly in the 2001 film The Princess Diaries.
As of 2010, on the online music site www.lala.com, there were 161 listed albums or singles containing the song "Whispering". As of 2014, TJD Online, the online version of The Jazz Discography, listed 225 recording sessions, beginning with Ray Miller and his Black and White Melody Boys, who recorded it on about July 16, 1920, Okeh 4167-A.