Childhood Memories - San Francisco, CA - 3130 Miles

This is a quick update midway through our stay in San Francisco and will only make sense to the few of you who read my story about Idora Park as a child and its penny arcade. A museum on Fisherman's Wharf houses old mechanical arcade devices from amusement parks. In it I found "Have a Look in the Sultan's Harem" - a variation of "What the Butler Saw" I remembered as a child. In this version the bouncing wooden legs were wrapped in a doily and had feathers at the waist since, as we all know, standard attire in a Sultan's harem consists of doilies and feathers. I've included a photo of the machine and also a shot through the viewer. The second shot didn't come out very clearly, but knowing ahead of time you're looking at a doily at the bottom and feathers at the top you can almost make it out.