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“We will take you on a journey from turn of the century hand cranked music boxes to modern video arcade games. This is a trip down memory lane. It is a chance to show your children or grandchildren what you did for fun when you were their age. Before...

Happy birthday to us: Incredible but true: Interesting Thing of the Day is 10 years old! Fog, as I have said for many years, is my all-time favorite weather condition. Other than its impact on driving, I like everything about fog—the coolness...

Pier 45 Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco It’s been years since I’ve been to Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, but when someone left a comment on the Playland Not-at-the-Beach post from last month about another old time arcade center with a Laffing...

Some of my favorite family road trips as a kid were to places like the Exploratorium in San Francisco or Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley to play with all the hands-on science and technology exhibits. My dad was all for it because the tickets were...

The Musée Mécanique is one of the world’s largest privately-owned collections of mechanically operated musical instruments and antique arcade machines, featuring everything from turn of the century hand-cranked music boxes to modern video arcade games...