Down below the Cliff House at San Francisco's Ocean Beach, is a wonderful little hidden treasure: The Musee Mechanique. Filled with all sorts of coin-operated entertainment machines from the past, it's easy to spend handfuls of quarters there. There are pianos that will play songs, little figures that will dance, fortune-telling machines, and lots of old-fashioned folk-art -- most for only a quarter a piece. Here are pictures of some of the great old pieces there. (Click on each image to get a larger view.) Building Entrance

MUSICAL MACHINES Amazing Wurlitzer! Funky Player Piano Sign

MOVING/MUSICAL CHARACTERS The Ole Barn Dance Ballroom Dancing Cowboy on Bull Farm Sign Animated Farm Family (Johnny Cash music plays in background) Couple on Ferris Wheel Fair Partiers Dancing Can-Can Woman Bizarre Musical Monkeys

FORTUNE-TELLERS Fortune-Telling Royal Typewriter (Types out a page for you to keep!) Magical Wizard

3D VIEWING MACHINES (Stereocards That Flip Through In Sequence) Two Viewers Earthquake View Inside a Viewer Front of a Viewing Machine

GAMES Metal Baseball Game Metal Racing Game Hand-Cranked Bicycle Game Wrestling Competition

CAMERA OBSCURA (Little building behind Cliff House with panning lens projecting area views onto big concave bowl inside building (bowl too difficult to photograph on this day). Funky holograms also line the inside walls.) Building Front One of the Many Holograms Lens in Ceiling

VIEWS SOUTH: View Down the Beach WEST: Seal Rocks NORTH: Remains of old Sutro Baths