![]() The rides and attractions that began to spring up along the beach were separately owned by various concessionaires. ![]() The Cliff House, which opened in 1863, and Sutro Baths, which opened in 1896, drew thousands of visitors. By 1890, trolley lines reached Ocean Beach - the Ferries and Cliff House Railroad, the Park & Ocean Railroad, and the Sutro Railroad - that encouraged commercial amusement development as a trolley park. By 1884, a steam railroad was in place to bring people to the first amusement ride at the City’s ocean side - a "Gravity Railroad" roller coaster, and to the Ocean Beach Pavilion for concerts and dancing. The area that was Playland began as a 19th-century squatter's settlement, "Mooneysville-by-the-Sea". Playland closed Labor Day weekend in 1972. ![]() ![]() ![]() It began as a collection of amusement rides and concessions in the late 19th century, and was preceded by Chutes at the Beach, opened in 1921. Playland (also known as Playland-at-the-Beach and Whitney's Playland, beginning in 1928 – some say 1926 ) was a 10-acre (40,000-square-meter) seaside amusement park located next to Ocean Beach, in the Richmond District at the western edge of San Francisco, California, along Great Highway, bounded by Balboa and Fulton streets. ![]()
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