History repeats itself for Playland-Not-At-The-Beach. The museum, which pays tribute to the original Playland amusement park in San Francisco, will close on Labor Day to make way for condos.

After his father’s death, he returned to San Francisco to run Playland himself. After a few years of conflict with his mother over how the park should be run, Whitney Jr. stepped aside. In 1972 a ...

A museum tribute to the iconic San Francisco amusement park known as Playland At-The-Beach is open for the last time this weekend. Playland was an amusement park at Ocean Beach that opened in the 1920 ...

When Playland-At-The-Beach shuttered at San Francisco's Ocean Beach in 1972, its comic and family-oriented attractions weren't discarded. Nearly all of its arcade games and quirky oddities ...

By 1928, it had been renamed Whitney’s Playland, but most referred to it as Playland-at-the-Beach, and the name stuck. Leo Whitney retired in 1939, and by 1942, George Whitney owned all 10 acres ...

The unusual museum and arcade founded in an El Cerrito office building in tribute to San Francisco’s long-defunct Playland At The Beach will end its 10-year run this weekend with an ...

The 9,000-square-foot space is not only a funhouse but a museum of memorabilia from amusement parks of 20th century America such as San Francisco’s Playland-At-The-Beach, from which its name is ...

Memorabilia of the park — which closed in 1972 — is visible today in El Cerrito at Playland-Not-at-the-Beach. And a part of Playland — about 220 feet of it — has resurfaced across the country.

The chutes and roller coasters are long gone from Playland-at-the-Beach, an extravagant seaside carnival held near San Francisco’s Ocean Beach from the 1920s until it closed in 1972.

The chutes and roller coasters are long gone from Playland-at-the-Beach, an extravagant seaside carnival held near San Francisco’s Ocean Beach from the 1920s until it closed in 1972.