The Best Museum Ever

Here's a bit of advice: if you're ever in San Francisco, hustle on over to the Musee Mecanique in Fisherman's Wharf. Yeah, I know the Wharf is an infamous tourist trap (I did my best to avoid the area when I lived in SF), but trust me—it's worth wading through the gobs of people to check this place out. It's FABULOUS. It doesn't just house tons of wacky fortune telling machines (Zoltar or biorhythms, anyone?) and weird games involving executions (among other bizarre scenarios). It also contains relics like Pong and Millipede. That's right people, Pong. And coin-operated games about opium? Come on!



These crappy pictures I took with our digital camera are enough to inspire me to put a digital SLR high on my list of "wants", but you'll get the general idea. I was afraid Jim was going to pull something trying to beat the arm wrestling machine. He didn't see the stern warning until he'd nearly lost an appendage.