Lost San Francisco - 1971 - Playland at the Beach - Roller Coaster - In the final years of the parks operation a large (for the time) portable steel coaster manufactured by
San Francisco Chronicle - Aug. 17, 1972: A visitor rides a roller coaster on the last day that Playland at the Beach was open to the public. The amusement park at Ocean
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