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Southeast from Cliff House to beach, Beach Drive, ca. 1890. Seal Rock House showing behind cliff, left; Beach Pavilion, 4-turreted building which used to have an orchestrion--a huge instrument that they used to have two men carry out a big cylinder full of spikes, the cylinder about 14 inches in diameter and about nine feet long, and that was put on bearings in the orchestrion and was started up with a motor and it would play everything, pianos and organs and horns and everything, and people would dance. There were tables all around the pavilion--it was a beer hall--and windows to look out at the beach

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Title: Southeast from Cliff House to beach, Beach Drive, ca. 1890. Seal Rock House showing behind cliff, left; Beach Pavilion, 4-turreted building which used to have an orchestrion--a huge instrument that they used to have two men carry out a big cylinder full of spikes, the cylinder about 14 inches in diameter and about nine feet long, and that was put on bearings in the orchestrion and was started up with a motor and it would play everything, pianos and organs and horns and everything, and people would dance. There were tables all around the pavilion--it was a beer hall--and windows to look out at the beach
Publication Information: The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Graves (Roy D.) Pictorial Collection, ca. 1850-ca. 1968
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Type: image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3d5nb38x
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