Chutes at the Beach
Dodg-Em (a bumper car ride) and Ship-A-Joy
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Contains 370 photos
Playland At the Beach
Bathing beauties on Shoot the Chutes ride. Not the typical riders for this water ride.
Richmond
Great Highway near Fulton
View east of original Topsy's Roost on Great Highway near Fulton Street. Big Dipper roller coaster in background. (Sign on awning reads 'No Covert Charge.)
Ocean Beach
Great Highway near Balboa
Chutes at the Beach. Surf Building. "Freaks of the World" display. View east. Ocean Beach Pavilion at left.
Sutro Heights
Great Highway near Balboa
Surf Building at Balboa & Great Highway. Freak show display. View east. Ocean Beach Pavilion at left.
Sutro Heights
Playland at the Beach
Chutes at the Beach. Noah's Ark, a floating, rocking ride. A twin existed in Oakland's Idora Park.
Richmond
Playland at the Beach
Chutes at the Beach. Rides north of Cabrillo including Noah's Ark and Shoot the Chutes.
Richmond
Playland at the Beach
The Whip. One of the earliest rides at Chutes at the Beach. Lurline Pier in background.
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Balboa & Great Highway
Two men pose at the exterior of The Surf waffle house, Don's Chicken Pie. Sign on roof advertising the Chutes at the Beach Bowling Alley. Ocean Beach Pavilion at left.
Sutro Heights
Ocean Beach
Debris of wrecked steam schooner Yosemite. View north. The Yosemite ran aground near Point Reyes on February 7, 1926 then tore free while being towed back to San Francisco. The wreckage washed up on Ocean Beach, damaging the Lurline Pier in the process.
Ocean Beach
Ocean Beach Esplanade
View southeast from foot of Point Lobos Ave. Ocean Beach Pavilion at left. Debris on beach from wrecked steam schooner Yosemite.
Sutro Heights
Golden Gate Park
View East on South Drive (now Martin Luther King) from the Murphy Windmill
Ocean Beach
Lower Great Highway
Lower Great Highway looking north, showing people standing atop sand dunes next to Upper Great Highway. [GT. Highway 1/1/26 P9]
Sunset
Great Highway
Great Highway showing Ocean Beach and Golden Gate Park, 1926.
Sunset
Playland at the Beach
Sleigh Ride Roller Coaster, the least know of the Playland rides. It ran parallel to the Shoot the Chutes ride and over Noah's Ark.
Richmond
Great Highway
Great Highway. View north towards Third Cliff House and Sutro Heights. Windmill and waterfall at foot of Sutro Heights.
Ocean Beach
Playland at the Beach
Crowds on the Midway, looking south. Sign to the Tumble Bug ride. Birds Paradise attraction. The Tumble Bug Ride was a spinning ride with rotating circular seats.
Richmond
Playland at the Beach
MUNI bus parked at foot of Cabrillo. View north. Left to right: Cliff House, Great Highway, Sutro Heights, Chutes entrance.
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Ocean Beach
Workers repair the Fleishhacker Pool intake pipe on Ocean Beach
Sunset
Ocean Beach
Man watches as workers repair the Fleishhacker Pool intake pipe on Ocean Beach
Sunset