Arcade in Tiburon

SanRafaelkid · Status: Offline

RE: Arcade in Tiburon

Paul Penna · Status: Offline

Hmm, I certainly remember it being in Tiburon in 1970. Maybe it was only there for a short time, or merged with another collection in the city, but it was definitely called the Musee Mechanique and just off Main St. near Tiburon Blvd.I>

Yep, I recall visiting it there. I can't swear one billion percent that it was called Musee Mechanique, but it was full of stuff like that.

Pangolin · Status: Offline

Sepiatone wrote:

The Musee Mechanique was in the basement of the Cliff House in San Francisco not in Tiburon...

Hmm, I certainly remember it being in Tiburon in 1970. Maybe it was only there for a short time, or merged with another collection in the city, but it was definitely called the Musee Mechanique and just off Main St. near Tiburon Blvd.

OK, just figured it out; the owner, Edward Galland Zelinsky who owns Main Street Properties, lives in Tiburon and must have originally installed it there before he moved it to the city.

Sepiatone · Status: Offline

Pangolin wrote:

I remember something there called the Musee Mechanique, which had all sorts of old fashioned arcade games and amusements. It now resides at Pier 45 in the city. I remember it because as a kid I took a photography class at a studio just next to it, and in our free time we'd all go over there to play.

http://www.museemechanique.org/

The Musee Mechanique was in the basement of the Cliff House in San Francisco not in Tiburon...

-- Edited by Sepiatone at 06:45, 2007-03-24

Pangolin · Status: Offline

I remember something there called the Musee Mechanique, which had all sorts of old fashioned arcade games and amusements. It now resides at Pier 45 in the city. I remember it because as a kid I took a photography class at a studio just next to it, and in our free time we'd all go over there to play.

http://www.museemechanique.org/

SanRafaelkid · Status: Offline

When did it close down?

R54 · Status: Offline

The arcade was my old stomping grounds on weekends. All the guys would meet up to start the weekend. Ed was the guy in the booth.

SanRafaelkid · Status: Offline

Does anyone remember the old fashioned arcade down at the end of the pier on Main Street in Tiburon.

I remember my parents taking all of us out to dinner at the Dock and then afterwards, we got to run to somewhere in the back (nearer the water) where there was this arcade with the really neat pinball games - not like the electronic ones today - but we had a blast. You could put a dime in and watch those old movies etc.