Here is some sad news from today's San Francisco Chronicle.  The Musee
Mecanique at Cliff House will be closing later this year, and there are
no plans to re-open it.  The newspaper article is located at:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/02/27/MN225709.DTL

Notice on this page that there is also a link to an article from about
a year ago, describing the Musee as a tourist attraction.

On the other hand, this might be good news for some other Musee
Mecanique that someone wants to open somewhere else -- let the bidding
begin!

Steve Vance, San Rafael, CA