print email comment close Musee Mecanique URL: http://www.museemechanique.org Description: This museum located at Pier 45 on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf is "one of the world's largest privately owned collections of mechanically operated musical instruments and antique arcade machines." Click on the faces at the bottom of the pages to learn about machines such as Laffing Sal (an automaton with bright red hair and a loud boisterous laugh), the Naughty Marietta "Cail-o-Scope," and the gypsy fortuneteller. Extra Keywords Laughing Sal Playland at the Beach Mechanical Museum Library of Congress Subject Headings: Coin-operated machines Mechanical musical instruments Mechanical toys Museums -- California -- San Francisco LII Database Information: Record 11724 created by Maria Brandt on 08/01/2005 Last modification on 08/03/2005 Published: 08/01/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/11724