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Pier 45 San Francisco, CA 94133

 

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One of the largest privately owned collections of antique coin-operated automatic mechanical musical instruments in the world.








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  • 2011 | Best Old-School Arcade

    Locals who write off Fisherman's Wharf as a tourist trap full of snow globes and "I Heart San Francisco" T-shirts are only 95 percent right. They would be amiss to not venture into the Musée Mécanique, a shrine to arcade games circa, say, the year the Titanic went under. There's the mysterious Zorba the Wizard. There's Laffing Sal, a creepy, corpulent puppet who laughs hysterically for seemingly no reason at all. The English Execution -- do we need to elaborate?... More »

  • 2007 | Best Penny-Squishing Machine

    You may think all penny-squishing machines are alike. They all take your 51 cents and return to you a flattened copper oval, and they're all located at tourist traps. How different can they be? For collectors, it's a matter of deep importance. Is the contraption a rare hand-crank model, or the more common and less exciting automatic type? Is the design an old, good one, or a newer commercial-looking thing advertising a sports team? Regardless, the penny itself should be of sentimental value... More »

  • 2005 | Best Cure for PlayStation

    Think today's games are violent? Drop a coin into French Execution, a fine example of the macabre from Edward Zelinsky's collection of early-20th-century mechanical arcade games, animation boxes, and other fun-house fare housed in a warehouse on Pier 45. Although the collection tends toward the cute, there's plenty to satisfy the world-weary gamer. Opium Den, for one, which stars addicts, skeletons, a hallucinatory snake, and a man with a machete. Then there's English Execution, which... More »

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