Remembering Playland at the Beach | Civic Center

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Remember Laffing Sal, the Fun House, the Carousel, the Big Dipper, the Diving Bell, Dark Mystery, Limbo and Fun-tier Town?

These were all fixtures at San Francisco’s now-extinct 10-acre seaside amusement park. This event is a FREE screening of Tom Wyrsch’s Remembering Playland at the Beach, a full-length documentary about the legendary amusement park in Ocean Beach that was torn down in 1972.

Playland-at-the-Beach began as a collection of individual amusements and concessions in the 1880s, was formalized as Playland in the 1920s, and was ultimately demolished in 1972. The film brings back fond memories shared by anyone who experienced amusement park.

Plus there’ll be a Q&A with the filmmaker Tom Wyrsch to follow.

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