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At the beginning of the century, Thomas Edison took the entertainment industry by storm with a host of dazzling mechanical contraptions that kept the masses and their coin-filled pockets running to the...
citysearch.com - expert review - 01/11/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I used to love seeing all these games and Laughing Sal at the Cliffhouse, but I love it even more in its new location near Fisherman's Wharf. I still laugh back at Sal, although her looks really…
yelp.com - user review - 07/04/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Nothing consistently makes me happier than putting 10 cents in a slot, and watching a popsicle stick with a hula skirt and a crappy little wig shimmy for 2 seconds. It just never gets old...
yelp.com - user review - 07/04/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I love Saturdays where it feels like you don't do anything and yet you go to the Ferry Building for breakfast/lunch, hit the French Music Festival, go to Chevy's and have WAY too much salsa, walk…
yelp.com - user review - 06/27/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
They should rename this place the Twilight Zone. All you need is a bit of change to peek into a piece of history. It's easy to imagine how people felt seeing these games for the first time. They…
yelp.com - user review - 06/23/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This is probably one of the few places in Fisherman's Wharf, in which you can spend an entire afternoon in, and not spend over $5.00 I used to come here when it was actually situated by the Cliff…
yelp.com - user review - 06/17/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
What a wonderous time was had by all! I expected a dusty, old shop full of antiques but found instead a magical land of toothpick carnivals, fortune tellers, and black and white photo booths.
yelp.com - user review - 06/13/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Very nostalgic like a step back in time! Some of the games were very corny and didn't do much bot for a quarter a piece, it was a fantastic time! me and GF spent nearly an hour here playing with…
yelp.com - user review - 06/04/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I had read about this place before going, and I ended up loving it even more than I thought I would. It was so much fun to roam around the room, packed with games but with a high ceiling that makes it…
yelp.com - user review - 06/02/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Where else can you go to play a game called "Opium Den"? Yes, it's the Musee Mecanique, where pocket change can make a miniature toothpick ferris wheel come to life and you can do your best against…
yelp.com - user review - 06/02/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This was place was amazing, I highly recommend everybody go here. It's FREE (to enter) and its just astounding.
yelp.com - user review - 05/29/2008
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(INSERT MANDATORY CAVEAT ABOUT FISHERMAN'S WHARF AND HOW SOLIDLY SHITTY AND EXPENSIVE IT IS) I love the Musee Mecanique. It's a great litmus test for a new girlfriend too. Basically, if they can't…
yelp.com - user review - 05/29/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I really love this place. It transports to back into days when there was no television and you had to turn a handle in order to watch porn. And even then it consisted of a girl wearing a bathing suit…
yelp.com - user review - 05/28/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Musee Mechanique takes you back to the ol' days before Television and Ipods and video games. It's one of the world's largest collection of antique arcade machines and mechanical music machines.
yelp.com - user review - 05/26/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This place was always on the top of my list for out of town guests when located behind the old Cliff House. It's still a great place to visit and I still direct folks there, but much of the old charm…
yelp.com - user review - 05/17/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Admission is free and the collection of coin-operated machines is amazing. I am a fan of stereography and they have several machines offering three dimensional images of characters from a by-gone…
yelp.com - user review - 05/16/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
For mois, it is never just the musee that does it for me; it is all of the day's prelude that ends at this special destination. Side note: I've always found it enchanting that the French equivalent…
yelp.com - user review - 05/09/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Every local in the bay area dreads the inevitable visit from older relatives. "So, is there anything you'd like to see? We could tour North Beach, see murals in the Mission, go see the Elephant seals…
yelp.com - user review - 05/06/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Tres cool! I felt like a kid again, old school games were awesome... must see and spend a couple of $ to have some fun...
yelp.com - user review - 05/05/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
By far one of the most fun things to do down on tired-ass fisherman's wharf! I've taken several people here, old and young, big and small, smart, and stupid...you get the picture. and everyone has a…
yelp.com - user review - 05/01/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Oh joy, I am absolutely delighted to include this buiding on my "All time Great Places to Poop or Pee-on in San Francisco" (please see my list,) shameless plug here!!! My human used to go here as a…
yelp.com - user review - 04/30/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
It's a little sad that this wonderful place had to be moved from the Cliff House to the touristy, Pier 39. But if the new-ish location means it's going to generate money to keep these machines going,…
yelp.com - user review - 04/30/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Another of my favorite places I only seem to get to when we have visiting guests. Be somewhat selective about which games you play because you can drop a lot of cash here before you know it!
yelp.com - user review - 04/27/2008
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My bf and I frequent here even though I'm a native and he grew up in the east bay. Just love the old arcade games like pac man and the og street fighter. I love to egg him on that he sucks and Chi-Li…
yelp.com - user review - 04/23/2008
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-this place owns all the funky weird old looking machines that entertain you and all you gotta do is insert coins -I put a quarter in the kiss-o-meter machine and it stated that I was a passionate…
yelp.com - user review - 04/10/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Free Admission! Okay so I've only been here once, after spending a loooong day at Sam's. We hopped off the ferry and went immediately to Boudin's for some drunk munching. Afterward, my friends…
yelp.com - user review - 04/10/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
this place gets five stars because: it reminds me of the good ol' days when it used to be in the cliffhouse, and i just love the memories.
yelp.com - user review - 04/09/2008
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Bust out your wallet, and get loads of quarters! This place is home to several generations-old arcade games, from electronic ones that we know of in the 80s and 90s, to the ancient Nickelodeon-style…
yelp.com - user review - 03/31/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This place is great for nostalgia's sake. I love all of the old, run down machines because I love old stuff (honestly). I used to come here after school a lot with my friend just to take b&w photo…
yelp.com - user review - 03/04/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I only got to see so little because I was with a group but I do plan to come back to explore by myself so I can finish taking pictures of the neat toys that are so detail and some look life like and…
yelp.com - user review - 02/25/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
best arcade ever. theyve got bowling and addams family pinball. also full working old fashion photo booths with "electric speed lights!". the sepia one is better than the black and white.
yelp.com - user review - 02/18/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I love this place! Old arcade machines! The photo booths takes really nice pictures but when it comes out the chemical smells like fart! Some of the machines are kind of stupid though. This place was…
yelp.com - user review - 02/13/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I love toys, I love scary toys, I love toys that give me horrible nightmares. Lucky for me, the Muse Mecanique fits all of my above qualifications! When you walk in, "Laffing Sal" is there to scare…
yelp.com - user review - 02/09/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I'll admit it. I'm not a fan of tourists. I turn my nose up to their map-reading ways. I scoff at the unashamed ways in which they proclaim their identity. And most of all, I hate the fact that they…
yelp.com - user review - 01/30/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This was once over next to the Cliff House, hidden from tourist congestion and empty enough to pratically live in the photo booth. Since its made its way over to Pier 39, I can't help but feel its…
yelp.com - user review - 01/27/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I cannot believe this place doesn't have more reviews! It truly is one of the gems of the city. You have to go through tourist hell to get here, but I find that it is totally worth it. First off, it…
yelp.com - user review - 01/09/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Someone mentioned this would be a great first date spot. Well...it was our 2nd date spot and it functioned fabulously in that respect as well. My husband found it many years ago...and thought it'd be…
yelp.com - user review - 01/09/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This may have been the most fun part of my trip to San Francisco. What's not to love? The museum offers unlimited entertainment for the easily amused for a mere quarter per machine. An arcade for…
yelp.com - user review - 01/02/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
miss it's original location at the Cliff House (corn dogs and all) when I was a tourist, glad it isn't completely gone and is preserved at Fisherman's Wharf.
yelp.com - user review - 12/14/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I like visiting this place. It's fun playing the games. They have both new and old games. It's interesting what games they had before.
yelp.com - user review - 12/06/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
When we entered there was a small child in her stroller, staring with horror at the laughing mechanical fat lady, while her parents gabbed away, oblivious to her trauma. I can't help but think what…
yelp.com - user review - 12/04/2007
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2.0 of 5 stars.
Hey, what's this place? Let's check it out... aaaaAAAAh! Get out! Jesus! Get out! Quick! This place should be moved next door to Le Video, so you can go right in and rent sad, weird, Andy…
yelp.com - user review - 12/03/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
. _________ || || Photoboooooth!! :) Must visit again soon. Any takers!?
yelp.com - user review - 11/16/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Normally any place with porn for a quarter gets an immediate 5 star rating but this place really earns it. And don't worry it's not actual porn. It's stuff you could literally let your kids watch. You…
yelp.com - user review - 11/14/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Best free place in San Francisco, I wish it was still at the Cliff house though..
yelp.com - user review - 10/19/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This is the best place to get rid of all your loose change. No where else in the city will you see kids freak out at Laughing Sal...(ahh...it's a good place to threaten little kids with…
yelp.com - user review - 10/16/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
what can i say that has not already been said about this place. i've spent a great many hours at the musee. both at it's former location and now at pier 45. i preferred the old location at the cliff…
yelp.com - user review - 10/02/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This has to be my favorite place to bring people. I've never seen anything like it. Hand kids a roll of quarters and let 'em go nuts.
yelp.com - user review - 10/02/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Freaky place with even freakier mechanical contraptions, but worth a look at least once in your life.
yelp.com - user review - 10/02/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This is a truly special place. I'll even brave deepest, darkest Fisherman's Wharf to visit Musee Mecanique. I first encountered it years and years ago when it was in Tiburon. Then it moved to the…
yelp.com - user review - 09/27/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Two words: Opium Den Actually, it looks like it is one hyphenated word. (See picture above)
yelp.com - user review - 09/18/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Penny Arcade of the past - Quarter Arcade of today. This place is one of those hidden gems in our great city. Well hidden in the sense that most of us don't make our way to the wharf very often (if…
yelp.com - user review - 09/04/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Musee Mechanique is one of my favorite places in the city. When I'm feeling uncertain about my future, the typewriter fortune teller offers insight. When I feel like I playing Skeeball, but I don't…
yelp.com - user review - 08/24/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
The only reason I go to the Musee Mecanique are the photobooths! True, you can play a lot of old games or be astounded by the horrors that were, once upon a time, considered PC enough to be designed…
yelp.com - user review - 08/20/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Oh yes. Oh sweet Odin in Valhalla, this place is the balls. For about $5 in quarters, you can kill a half hour in MUSEE MECHANIQUE, a slapdash collection of 19th century amusements and…
yelp.com - user review - 08/18/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Looking for that old arcade game you use to play when you were a kid? This place might have it. You can come in and play the French Guillotine for a dime and work your way past mechanical baseball…
yelp.com - user review - 08/14/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
It was a long drive west to San Francisco (from Sacramento) one early July day. The drive was extremely long for what unknown reason. By the time we all had the chance to stretch our legs most of the…
yelp.com - user review - 08/09/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This is the place to go to get your game of Ms. Pacman co-opted by some biotch from Walnut Creek who stands there pouring quarters into the machine while her boyfriend carresses her ass in her…
yelp.com - user review - 07/23/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
The crushed penny machine here is great: you can get Laffing Sal embedded onto a piece of copper and carry a creepy reminder of the demonic featured attraction until she invades your mind and has you…
yelp.com - user review - 07/21/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
talk about old fashioned fun! i never knew this place was here for the longest time, but i'm glad we finally got a chance to go. there is some good, cheap, simple fun here. amazing collection of…
yelp.com - user review - 07/13/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
the musee mecanique represents one the country's (world's?) largest collections of coin-operated mechanical games. some ppl may be confused b/c it used to be located at the cliff house but has now…
yelp.com - user review - 07/11/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This is the only place in the tourist piers I willingly brave. Photo booths, vintage nudes, skee ball, fatties laughing. I love it all. Say a friend of mine is in town with kids, we can go to the…
yelp.com - user review - 07/03/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Musee Mecanique - home to the nearly forgotten, creepy, and voyeuristic amusement park machines of another era. It is precisely because of these misfit machines that this place is so hip. Laughing…
yelp.com - user review - 06/26/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Oh, Musee de Mecanique. You have shaped a part of my life. Musee de Mecanique is a collection of antique arcade treasures and visions and automatic music-makers from the early 20th century and/ or…
yelp.com - user review - 06/21/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Loved the Musee Mechanique when it was at the Clift House. This place is so much fun, so unique, and yes...prettying creepy. When you walk through the doorway aka Laughing Sal's mouth, you are…
yelp.com - user review - 06/14/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I have always loved this place, moreso when it was at the Cliff House, but since it's the games and toys that are the attraction, anywhere they go, I'm happy to visit! This was one of my *must see*…
yelp.com - user review - 05/21/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
So ok, I'm a big nerd. I love the way these things operate. I love the patina of them. I'm old enough to remember Playland... walks on the beach with the parents that ended up there, and salt water…
yelp.com - user review - 05/17/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Yes, I am that creepy girl who's face lights up whenever the Carny is in town (who cares that they smell like cabbage). I have a thing for the nostalgic, slightly eerie, haunting strangeness of the…
yelp.com - user review - 04/24/2007
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This is surprisingly fun, although in a creepy way. From Laughing Sal (a gigantic weirdly dressed woman who laughs uncontrollably) to the strange little scenes (especially the guillotine and hanging vignettes)...
citysearch.com - user review - 04/23/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
It's hard not to love Musee Mecanique. What's not to dig about free admission and super inexpensive video games? Where else can you get robotic horses, mysterious fortunes, and best of all - one of…
yelp.com - user review - 04/14/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I loved this place. I think that seeing the type of things that entertained people so long ago was the most excellent part of the museum. The sense of humor and fascination with lurid subject matter…
yelp.com - user review - 04/13/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I LOVE the Musee Mechanique!! This was our first visit to it's current location at Pier 45. It has lost some of the charm since moving from scenic Cliff House but there are so many more games,…
yelp.com - user review - 03/11/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
i love musee mecanique. go there to learn WHAT ALL MARRIED WOMEN MUST NOT FEAR. or something. hold down the plunger after you've put in your nickle, and you can see the confusing tableau for as long…
yelp.com - user review - 03/04/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Its touristy but so precious at the same time. I love it here, because it blows the kids minds. This is a fantastic place to take guests with kids- or even those quirky friends!
yelp.com - user review - 03/04/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
To me, musee mechanique makes a great place for a 'tourist date.' Take the F over, grab some chowda in a bowl, and play around here in the afternoon. Then, grab a drink and watch the bush man scare…
yelp.com - user review - 03/02/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Gather up those pennies lying around your home - and any extra quarters you aren't going to use for parking here! Since the Musee Macanique moved to the East end of the city, there is more space to…
yelp.com - user review - 02/25/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
There is only one reason to visit this place: LAUGHING SAL
yelp.com - user review - 02/14/2007
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This museum is great! I only wished they hadn't converted the old machines from pennies and nickles to quarters! It gets expensive after awhile, because ...
gusto.com - user review - 02/07/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I take all my out-of-town friends here (if we happen to be in the area). Lots of antique arcades, most of them needing just a quarter to start running. I can't think of any other place that hosts…
yelp.com - user review - 01/22/2007
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I loved this museum- an interactive look at a world before video games. Bring plenty of cash (they have change machines available) to play with ...
gusto.com - user review - 01/21/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
i went here years ago back when it was at sutro's. i remember it so fondly, it was a really excellent way to spend an afternoon!
yelp.com - user review - 01/17/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Ahhh... nostalgic mechanical amusement machines that are probably a good 80 years old. I have lots of memories when this was located in the Cliff House area. Minus one star for the run down pier…
yelp.com - user review - 12/26/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I have always love visiting the Musee Mecanique. I'm glad it found a larger home by Fisherman's Wharf as the space by the Cliff House was quite small. Though being by the Cliff House has it's charms,…
yelp.com - user review - 12/26/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I don't think I've seen the adjectives "creepy" and "frightening" used so many times in one page of text. Reading these reviews gives you a sense of how difficult it is for people to appreciate these…
yelp.com - user review - 11/09/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This really is a "must-see" when you're in eh Pier 41 area. Tourists, barking sea lions, sourdough bread and fried seafood filling your nostrils- it's a paradise of sorts in all the hulla-ba-loo of…
yelp.com - user review - 10/18/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
As a game lover, I love this place. Has working models of machines that my dad, and his dad played. Quite nostalgic, as the generation today with all the video games misses out on these simple…
yelp.com - user review - 10/15/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Oh MY LORD! this place is AMAZING... it had me when the sign said FREE ADMISSION, but once i stepped in, i didnt know if i wanted to ever leave. I spent a lot of quarters in their fabulous machines…
yelp.com - user review - 10/08/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I came to the Musee Mecanique at Pier 45 and was pleased to find that all the games and nickelodeons had found a good new home. I used to visit the Musee Mecanique more often when it was at The Cliff…
yelp.com - user review - 10/04/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
the coolest place ever!!!! okay... maybe not ever but pretty cool for SF. i have lots of memories from going to the old location at the cliff house and even though i'm not so into the new location,…
yelp.com - user review - 09/16/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Go in the morning to miss the crush of people that start to show up around noon. However, a bigger crowd means you get to freeload on more of the things that only involve watching stuff. Arcade…
yelp.com - user review - 09/04/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Walking through the huge mouth door kind of freaks me out.. actually I'd say pretty much everything about this place freaks me out in a similar way. There are tons of creepy old games (think Big..…
yelp.com - user review - 08/29/2006
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Stumbled across this bizarre museum during a break from a conference and couldn't believe my eyes. If you're as phobic about clowns, scary puppets and eerie little vignettes as I am, enter at your own...
citysearch.com - user review - 08/03/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I remember laffing Sal from going out to Playland at the beach. I haven't been to the new location on Pier 45 but now that I know where it is, thanks to Yelp I'll check it out. I used to go to Musee…
yelp.com - user review - 07/23/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I LOVE this place!! Bring lots of dollers and or quarters. Photo booths are $3 and most machines are 25c. Give love all the mechanical fortune tellers.
yelp.com - user review - 07/22/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Even though it's now located in the one neighborhood that no San Franciscan visits (unless they're employed in the tourist trap) I will continue to go to the Mechanical Museum because it's got 1) B&W…
yelp.com - user review - 07/13/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I am echoing many others when I say that I miss the old, cold, dank, windy Vincent-Price-movie locale of the former Musee', but I am delighted that the new light, airy, fishy-smelling location can…
yelp.com - user review - 07/05/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
i fucking LOVE this place. it is genius. the old vending machines are unbelievable. watch the drunkard take a drink, look at a "peep show", get your palm "read", and then go in the back and play 80s…
yelp.com - user review - 06/09/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Such a cool place. Actually "delightful" is a better word. It's free, unless you play any the games. Even if you don't, they have some really neat stuff to look at. Yeah, the location isn't the best…
yelp.com - user review - 06/07/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I really enjoy this spot. I like that it is free, and I like that there is a black and white photo booth.
yelp.com - user review - 06/07/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
UPDATE! Well, my opinion of the Musee hasn't changed one bit.
yelp.com - user review - 05/30/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Move it back to Cliff House - where it belongs, dammit!! Its really unfortunate that they had to move this place. Its no longer easily accessible now that its in the tourist area. Hitting up the…
yelp.com - user review - 05/08/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Favorite game: the mechanical crane to get gumballs. I honestly don't know how old the gumballs are so I hand them off to the young spectators. I'm a pro at this and they always ask for autographs…
yelp.com - user review - 05/07/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
a great free place to take visitors. Make sure you spend a quarter to see the opium den!
yelp.com - user review - 05/03/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I've heard it been referred to as San Francisco's Coney Island. I wouldn't know myself. The Musee Mechanique used to be housed in the cliffhouse on Ocean Beach, and I went there regularly as a child.…
yelp.com - user review - 04/25/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Was amazing when it was in the Cliffhouse on Ocean Beach. Easily then 5 plus stars. The collection is still amazing but the new location is cramped and not as asthetic as something of this magnitude…
yelp.com - user review - 04/25/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Did you know that you can get the DVD at Pier 45? The DVD features the late Ed Zelinsky giving the tour at The Cliff House just before the move to Pier 45.
yelp.com - user review - 04/24/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
A couple of friends and I wandered in here after passing by a few times and hearing the somewhat eerie cackle of Laughing Sal, the famous beach fixture of yesteryear. It was a trip. All these really…
yelp.com - user review - 04/21/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
It's open on Thanksgiving. My favorite things there are the fortune telling machine that types out your fortune on a typewriter and the black and white photo booth. When I was a kid all this crap was…
yelp.com - user review - 03/28/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This is a great place for a date for "big" kids! My favorites are: Jolly Jack, the fortune-telling grandma, the executions, and the hard to find Addams Family and Indiana Jones pinball machines.…
yelp.com - user review - 03/13/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Inexpensive entertainment for an hour. Mechanical devices that are at least 100 years old and ya puts a quatah in in ya getcha fortune. What more can you ask of a Laughing Sally and her toys of…
yelp.com - user review - 03/08/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Minutes after getting here I'm feeding the first of several five-spots into the change machine. Within seconds my burn-rate for game tokens is on par with standard slot-machine pace for any Las Vegas…
yelp.com - user review - 03/08/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Awwwww... one of my favorite places in the entire world.
yelp.com - user review - 02/24/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Today would be a great day to goof around the Musee since it's rainy and cold and what better way to kill a few hours? I love wandering around and perusing and wondering about the hundreds of people…
yelp.com - user review - 02/17/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Man....so many sweet machines that remind me of dork ancestors having a ball. I can see my great great great great grandfather Silas Periwinkle Q. Frederick getting his geek on 19th century arcade…
yelp.com - user review - 01/21/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This place is just amazing. A crazy fascinating collection of antique coin-operated machines -- most from the early 1900's. Player pianos. Fortune telling machines. Low-tech flipbook-style movies of…
yelp.com - user review - 01/16/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Call me weird (which most people do) but I love the musee mecanique! Vintage photobooth (the only kind worth using) appeals to my hipster sensibilities and all of the arcade games appeal to my love of…
yelp.com - user review - 01/15/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
i hate to admit this, but this place scared the crap out of me initially. i walked in and was confronted with this 8 foot tall mechanical laughing woman who seemed more bride of chucky than happy go…
yelp.com - user review - 01/10/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
There was no better place to showcase this magnificent collection of vintage arcade games and amusements than in its former housing at the Cliff House. There was something about wandering among them -…
yelp.com - user review - 01/08/2006
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Musee Mecanique has some great mechanical exhibits. Whether its a small mechanical village or a steal arm just waiting to be wrestled, your quarters are just begging to leap from your pockets to…
yelp.com - user review - 11/27/2005
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This is one museum where I don't get bored. I'm most fond of the monkeys that play musical instruments for a dime and skee ball.
yelp.com - user review - 11/20/2005
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5.0 of 5 stars.
this place is wonderful for both locals and tourists. this was one of the very first things i stumbled upon when visited san francisco for the very first time and staying at a hotel in the wharf. its…
yelp.com - user review - 10/13/2005
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I was wondering where this moved to since it's been taken from the Cliff House. It's kind of a shame that it had to be moved. Now the Cliff House area feels like it's missing something. I love…
yelp.com - user review - 09/12/2005
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5.0 of 5 stars.
It has lost a bit of its charm since it moved from the Cliff House but the Musee Mecanique is still an outrageously fun place to spend an afternoon. The vintage arcade games are just so damn fun,…
yelp.com - user review - 08/28/2005
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Located near the Cliff House, Musee Mecanique has an eclectic collection of vintage coin-operated me...
judysbook.com - user review - 08/27/2005
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The Musee Mecanique is a great little hands-on museum that's fun for kids as well as adults. They h...
judysbook.com - user review - 08/26/2005
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Jack White told the stadium that he & Meg had gone to Musee Mecanique... & that outside of Detroit, San Francisco was his favorite city. DANG, we're up there with Detroit!
yelp.com - user review - 08/15/2005
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Ok. I like the vintage photobooth. It kicks butt. The rest of the stuff... well. Some of it is downright freaky to be honest. I mean, I feel like I'm in some kind of twisted carnaval except they all…
yelp.com - user review - 08/15/2005
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4.0 of 5 stars. The Cliff House location, as many other reviewers have stated, was the greates
