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Musee Left Out of New Cliff House

SAN FRANCISCO-The Musee Mecanique, a landmark in San Francisco for decades, is being left out of federal officials' plans to replace its home, the Cliff House, with a seismically safer building.

By Michelle Savage | Updated on June 05, 2002

SAN FRANCISCO-San Francisco port officials are negotiating a plan that would offer temporary shelter to the landmark Musee Mecanique, which is losing its home at the Cliff House this fall.

The Musee has been a source of entertainment for San Franciscans for decades– long after the closure of the once popular Playland-at-the-Beach amusement park nearby — but federal officials are headed toward replacing the Cliff House with a seismically safer building and the basement museum overlooking the sea isn’t part of the new plans.

This week, Supervisor Tony Hall said he is hopeful that the Fisherman’s Wharf area will soon include the Musee Mecanique, a nostalgic part of San Francisco’s history that features coin-operated machines such as Laughing Sal and a fortune-telling typewriter. The proposal on the table would also include short-term housing for the newly consolidated San Francisco Museum and Historical Society.

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