Balboa Theatre
3630 Balboa St
415.221.8184
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- When
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Tuesday Mar 16, 2010 (7pm)
- Where
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- Price
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$6.50
“This is the first ever documentary about the rich and weird history of San Francisco's Playland amusement park (RIP: 1880-1972.) Check out the Shoot-the-Chute log-rides and the trippy Fun House with its creepy automaton mascot Laffing Sall — whose creepy cackle could be heard throughout the park. The footage will transport you to a San Francisco of yore, and you might even recognize the Carousel, which now has a home in the Yerba Buena Center. Dan X. Solo discusses carnival game scams and present a mentalism act before the screening.”
Michelle Broder Van Dyke, Flavorpill
Balboa Theatre says:
A full-length documentary about San Francisco's famous 10-acre seaside amusement park, Playland at the Beach. Located next to Ocean Beach, it was torn down in 1972 to make way for a condominium development. Gone now for more than 3 decades, it remains one of the city's lost treasures.
