Save San Francisco's Musee Mecanique

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We, the undersigned, are greatly disheartened by the GGNRA's plan to close our beloved Musee Mecanique. This unique museum has added an uncomparable piece of history to our city. It has served as a setting for many of our memories, and should continue to provide such.

We adamantly oppose your plan to close this museum. The GGNRA will be doing the public of this and future generations the greatest injustice by kicking the Musee Muecanique out.

We implore you to find a home for this beloved San Francisco treasure. We ask you to search for common sense and recognize these voices of the Bay Area before you throw away an important piece of history, forever.

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  • Jolie G
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    • Save it!
  • Anthony P
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    • This is the most shocking display of stupidity san francisco has ever done so far !
  • Veleka G
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    • I'm moving to SF. Don't destroy all the parts I love.
  • Lisa da s
  • Nanette D
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    • Please find them a home I would like the opertunity to take my children to see it.....
  • diana c
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    • My earliest childhood memory is of the laughing lady. Please find a home in SF for the Musee Mecanique!
  • pat q
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    • keep the cliff house
  • Angelina G
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    • That's the only reason why I go to northern cali.
  • richard m c
  • Elizabeth S
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    • I have memories of a child going and putting coins in the machines to watch their magic. It would be a shame to lose such a treasure.
  • Sandra H
  • David W
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    • PLEASE help save the Musee Mecanique. Thank YOU!
  • diana j l
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    • keep it open so ican enjoy
  • Kristina O
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    • I used to love Playland as a child in the 60's! At age 12, I moved to Sweden and have lived here ever since. I returned to visit at age 27, and I was touched and deeply moved by the fact that SOMEBODY had saved the old machines that I remembered as a child!! I could have slept there embracing the past... I now have children of my own, and we're coming to S.F. next year! I was planning on visiting the closed Cliff House, and the Musee Mecaniques amazing games of the past, especially Laughing Sally if she is still there?( I used to call her "Haha" when I was a child), among other places. Visiting this unique collection of nostalgia is like a warm hand that touches the little person inside everyone, and fills it with love. So please don't take our history or childhood memories away!!! Please?
  • hether b
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    • i love this old arcade. i miss it already and have been going to the arcade since i was a child and would have liked my children to have had the same experience! we cant keep removing things like this away from sanfransisco! it is the special little peices of history that keeps sanfrancisco alive! Bring back the stables and black light bowling at japan bowl too!
  • Cassie P
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    • I loved seeing the machines in there, they have a special place for me, please don't close it.
  • Gary K
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    • Musee Mecanique & Lunch was why I went to the Cliff House. Now it is just another restaurant. I do not need to go to San Francisco for another restaurant. I would bring visiting family members over to have lunch and enjoy the old memories of playland. Seems so many voted in members and business men that did not grow up here are all to willing to get rid of things that locals hold as great value. Do we not have any room for history anymore? Why a city that has such good museums is not willing to hold on to its past historic items baffles me. Playland is part of the citys history. Lets not be in such a hurry to bury our beloved memories.
  • David C
  • Darryl A. E
  • Ronald P
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    • great piece o history
  • DALE & MARILEE G
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    • please retain these historic artifacts in s.f,
  • E. K
  • Edwin D. B
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    • I was born and raised in San Francisco. Our history of this city needs to be saved. I now live in Idaho Falls, Idaho, but continue to keep up with San Francisco news and events. Playland and the Cliff House were part of my growing up there in the 1950's to 1960's teen years. Please don't let anything happen to our wonderful history.
  • Steve S
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    • The Musee Mecanique was one of the most enjoyable discoveries we had on our last visit to San Francisco. I hope other folks are given the same opportunity.
  • Rob P
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    • Please save this wonderful memorial for beautiful machines of the past.
  • Sarah C
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    • you can't close this museum!!
  • Sandra R
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    • I remember the Musee Mecanique from when I moved to the Bay Area as a child in 1961. It was always one of my favorite stops. Now it seems the Chiff House renovation has made it just another modern, boring restaurant
  • Christian C
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    • Save one of the true hidden gems of SF!!!
  • carol h
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    • where is the musee now (2005)
  • john m
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    • How much more of SanFrancisco History will go down the toilet before someone actually preserves it? Come on "new" people , get a clue. Sutro's, Playland, now this!
  • Tristram L
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    • Save the MM!
  • Craig F
  • Lucia F
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    • We can not continue to let our history be tossed out like yesterday's garbage. We must think of future generations who will enjoy learning our history. Not to mention the tourist who travel to our city. What would Europe have for us to see if they had demolished all the great architecture and museums? We have to be more vigilant in preserving our hertiage for future generations to enjoy.
  • Randall T
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    • As a native San Franciscan, the bums better keep their hands off!!
  • Jessica G
  • JOEL
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    • DO NOT CLOSE THIS MUSEE IT IS SO ENTERTAINING AND NASTALGIC FOR YOUNG AND OLD ALIKE.
  • SharronP. J
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    • Playland forever............
  • Christopher S
  • Jean B
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    • I am 77 years old and I spent some of the most glorious days of my childhood at Playland at the Beach and surrounding wonders. And so did my children. Please save what you can of it.
  • Jennifer P
  • Howard M
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    • Great historic value. It must be saved!
  • KEN SHATTOCK (aka 'Key Route K
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    • Dear "GGNRA"-- As a young boy growing up in my native OAKLAND, CA, I have fond memories of my grandmother taking me by KEY Train or SP Ferryboat to San Francisco to visit, on many occasions, Playland, Sutros, Fleischacker Zoo and POOL, and of course, the CLIFF HOUSE with the famous exhibits in the "Musee Mecanique".. This included a variety of coin-operated Pianos, band organs and other gadgets, including a scale model of an amusement park built by local 'convicts' out of millions of toothpicks.. This museum MUST be preserved for future generations to enjoy. Don't strip one of the last vestiges from usw of "Old San Francisco".. Preserve the "Musee Mechanique".. Thank you..
  • TB C
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    • we need to preserve San Francisco's history
  • Darren G
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    • One of my reasons for visiting SF from Canada!
  • Anthony F
  • Shelly A
  • Les S
  • Lauren
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    • Don't close it down! This is one of my favorite things about SF!
  • Carol H
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    • I hardly recognize my home town. So much has either been renamed or plowed under. I am not at all sorry I left home and moved away. Wish I could see something firmilar if I were to go back for a visit. When I do drive through (my son lives there) I see a very sad dirty place.
  • Bob F
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    • If you take down the museum, we will RIOT!