Looking for the best things to do in San Francisco and the Bay Area this weekend? Here are some family-friendly events and ...

An amusement park and saltwater swimming pool complex that once drew San Franciscans to Ocean Beach can be seen again along the city’s Pacific Ocean shoreline.

"We've had good crowds, and everyone seems excited to be here," said Brian Hartley, vice president of Playland's Castaway Cove, in Ocean City, New Jersey, which boasts 30 rides, miniature golf, ...

Gerald Edward Berman was a trailblazing San Francisco designer and art director whose creative vision shaped iconic local and national brands. Born December 29, 1937, to Irving Berman and Francis ...

The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Commission on Wednesday settled on a final name for the new park that recently replaced the Upper Great Highway.

One day after a stretch of San Francisco's Great Highway was permanently closed to cars, a new mural in the works there was vandalized.

The Bay Area isn’t just home to overpriced real estate and breathtaking views; it’s also a foodie paradise packed with i ...

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. Other ...

San Francisco's Big Dipper roller coaster at Playland-at-the-Beach, circa 1920s. (Courtesy of Jim Smith) Read the transcript here. While the rest of the country cools off and settles into fall, the ...

Is there a San Francisco landmark that is more missed than Playland-at-the-Beach? The amusement park is captured by air along Ocean Beach by Chronicle photographer Barney Peterson (Barney Peterson ...

Playland at the Beach straddled San Francisco’s Ocean Beach on the western end of the Richmond neighborhood from 1913 till 1972, though the first ride — the Gravity Railroad roller coaster ...

Is there a San Francisco landmark that is more missed than Playland-at-the-Beach? The amusement park is captured by air along Ocean Beach by Chronicle photographer Barney Peterson (Barney Peterson ...