The Musée Mécanique is located at the end of Jones Street in Pier 45, it is open daily, 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m., Memorial Day through Labor Day: the rest of the year they are open, 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m..

Your kids can see what penny arcades were like before vidio games took over. They have a unique collection of working antique mechanical games, music boxes, and player pianos. The large music boxes on the left were out way before the nicklelodians that played old 78 rpm records. These boxes used paper rolls, like the player piano does.

Don't bring your pennys when you come here, they have raised the prices so they can afford to operate the museum and keep the machines in working order.

I believe that most of these machines came from Playland when it was in operation. For more information about Playland go to my Home Page and select my Carrousel Page.

Also inside the museum you will see displays telling about the history of San Francisco. You can also see photos of damage the earthquakes have done to San Francisco.

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