Crescent City
Undersea World

Fairfield
Budweiser Brewery - There is an enlongated penny machine in the gift shop. There are four patterns in one machine. The unique feature is that it is a HAND CRANK machine.

Murphy's
Mercer Caverns
1665 Sheep Ranch Road, Murphys, CA 95247
(209) 728-2101
Mercer Caverns is located in Calaveras County just outside Murphys, California and about five miles from Angels Camp. Travel time from Sacramento is about two hours.
Machine is located right outside the entrance of the Caverns next to the cashier.
Machine Type: electric
Number of Dies: 1
Cost to Roll Coin: .50
Denomination of Rolled Coin: PENNY
Die Information
Design #1: (H), dotted border, "MERCER CAVERNS, MURPHY'S, CALIFORNIA + Showplace of the Sierras", [stalagtites and stalagmites] Contact for Trading Rick Allison - Rihda@aol.com

Nevada City
Denomination of Rolled Coin: PENNY
Design Information: (H), dotted border, "Nevada City (above) California (below)", [goldpanner along a river]

Placerville
Placerville Hardware Store - just east of Sacramento. Store is located on the main drag in the historical downtown area.
A great little machine with three different elongateds. Each costs two quarters plus your penny.
Die Information
Design #1: (V), "Bell Tower, Placerville, CA", [Picture of a bell tower]
Design #2: (V), "Hangtown, California", [a hangman's noose]
Design #3: (H), "Historic Placerville Hardware, EST. 1852", [an old time, two man saw]
Design #4: (V), nugget border,"Coloma, California", [Miner 49er]

Redwoods (Klamath)
Trees of Mystery -
15500 Highway 101 N., Klamath, Ca. 95548
1-800-638-3389
In Redwoods (North. CA): 2 located at the Trees of Mystery on the Redwood Hwy.
Machine Type: electric
Penny Machine:
Cost to Roll Coin: 50 cents
Design Info: H, dotted border, "Trees of Mystery", [Horse with Indian rider]
Dime Machine:
Cost to Roll Coin: 75 cents
Design Info: V, dotted border, "Trees of Mystery" and "Brotherhood Tree", [redwood tree].
Additional Comments: They had a little plastic pressed penny book that holds 8 plastic pages with three slots per page for pressed pennies. Aprox. $2.00 each

Sacramento
Sacramento Zoo
3930 West Land Park Drive, Sacramento, CA 95822
916-264-7444
Design Information: Giraffe (v), Polar Bear (h), Tiger (h).

Old Sacramento
Old Sacramento is located downtown and is bordered by Interstate 5, Capitol Mall and the Sacramento River. Take the J Street exit off I-5.
Candy Barrel
Machine Type: electric
Cost to Roll Coin: .50
Denomination of Rolled Coin: PENNY
Design #1: (H), [Pony Express Rider], "Pony Express-Old Sacramento 1860-1861"
Design #2 : (V), [Miner 49er panning for gold in stream with scenic background], "Coloma California"
Design #3: (H), [Old time railroad locomotive], " C.P. Huntington 1863"
Contact for Trading:
Mike Penick (TEC # 2191) - mPenick@aol.com

Quail's Nest on K St.
Machine Manufacturer: SF Penny Machine Co.
Design is of a starboard quarter view of a steamboat, dotted border, "OLD SACRAMENTO CALIFORNIA" in a scroll border.

Smugglers' Corner - corner of Front and K St.
Machine Manufacturer: SF Penny Machine Co.
Design is Capitol dome on top, a row of old store fronts and a locomotive travelling right to left with a smoke plume emitting from her stack (note that the Capitol isn't actually in Old Sacramento), dotted border, "OLD TOWN (above), SACRAMENTO (below)" .

San Francisco
Alcatraz, Fisherman's Wharf, Lombard Street - A number of machines between Piers 39 and 49:
Quarter machine:
(H) Cable car LF view, SAN FRANCISCO printed below
Penny Machines:
Golden Gate Bridge with SF in the background [SAN FRANCISCO, The Golden Gate Bridge]
Golden Gate Bridge (without the Fort Point arch) with tugboat [GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE, 50 YEARS]
Golden Gate Bridge [GOLDEN GATE]
A cable car [CABLE CAR]
Fishing boat at Fisherman's wharf, [FISHERMANS WHARF]
View of Alcatraz Island, [ALCATRAZ, SAN FRANCISCO]
Cable car coming over a hill, Coit Tower, Transamerica Pyramid, GG Bridge, [SAN FRANCISCO]

Pier 39
Off Embarcadero where Jefferson St. and Stockton St. intersect
(415) 705-5500
Machines are located in gift shops. A 2-in-1 machine exists which only requires 50 cents but you get 2 impressions. It is of the San Francisco 49ers, a football with 49ers logo, and the other one is of the Oakland Raiders, depicting a Raider's helmet. I don't recall the name of the store, but it is the only pro-sportswear store, upstairs on Pier 39. Also: [Trolley car].

The Cable Car Museum
1201 Mason Street San Francisco, CA 94108 (corner of Mason and Washington Sts.)

Chinatown - There are actually 5 elongated penny machines in Chinatown, 4 are on Grant St. (2 different dragons, 1 temple, 1 with a dragon head and chinese lantern), The fifth machine is about 50 yards west of Grant on Washington St. That one has the Chinatown gate.
Denomination of Rolled Coin: PENNY

Coit Tower - Inside the tower behind the gift shop
Machine Type: electric
Number of Dies: 1
Cost to Roll Coin: 51
Denomination of Rolled Coin: PENNY
Design Info: (H), dotted border, "Coit Tower San Francisco", [Coit Tower San Francisco Bay]

The Cliff House - on Highway 1, at Ocean Beach on the west edge of SF.

Exploratorium -
Palace of Fine Arts, Marina District
Machine Type: electric
Cost to Roll Coin: 51 cents
Denomination of Rolled Coin: PENNY
Additional Comments: Two machines inside of the Exploratorium, a hands-on science museum. Paid admission is required.
Die Information:
Design #1: H, dotted border, "San Francisco, Exploratorium", [Building (Palace of Fine Arts)]
Design #2: V, dotted border, "Exploratorium, San Francisco", [Faces or Vase? (optical illusion)]

Goldengate Bridge - gift shop at the look out point on the toll (south) side of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Machine uses it's own coins. It takes a dollar bill and rolls and dispenses both coins at once. Five different designs which include:
Design #1: (V), dotted border, "SAN FRANCISCO GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE", [bridge with no water and a moon or sun between the towers].
Additional Comments: This is an excellent bit of engraving with very fine detail shown on the towers and in the text.
Desing #2: (H), dotted border, "SAN FRANCISCO", [Interesting view of just the tops of the towers peeking from behind some hills. 6 buildings are shown at the left side of the coin].

The Japanese Tea Garden - In San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
Machine manufacturer: SF Penny Machine Co.
One machine is located in the gift shop on the west side of the park. Designs depicted include [carousel horse], [pagoda] and [archway]. All designs read "GOLDEN GATE PARK + SAN FRANCISCO". Jim Dunden engravings.
Inside the Tea Garden (admission $2.50) at the gift shop there is another machine. Designs depicted include [Japanese archway], [pagoda], [high bridge], [Budda]. All are (H), dotted border and read "JAPANESE TEA GARDEN + SAN FRANCISCO".

The Musee Mechanique - a great museum full of old coin operated machines near the Cliff House.
Two modern elongate machines, both manufactured by the SF Penny Machine Co..
Machine #1: (H), dotted border, "THE CLIFF HOUSE + SAN FRANCISCO", [cliff house in it's original form on the right side with cliffs, rocks and water at the bottom of the design].
Machine #2: (H), dotted border, "MUSEE MECANIQUE + LAUGHING SAL + vertical SF, CA and 386-1170 (in a script font)" [portrait of Laughing Sal]
For Bay area elongateds (buy/trade)
Chris Aahz (TEC#2062) - aahz@svpal.org

San Francisco Zoo
Machine Type: electric
Number of Dies: one
Cost to Roll Coin: .51
Denomination of Rolled Coin: PENNY
Design #1: (H), dotted border, "The Carousel San Francisco Zoo", [Carousel Horse]
Design #2: (V), dotted border, "San Francisco Zoo", [Giraffe]
Design #3: (V), dotted border, "San Francisco Zoo", [Gorilla]
Design #4: (V), dotted border, "San Francisco Zoo", [Lion Cub]
Contact for Trading
Mike Penick - mpenick@aol.com

San Jose
Winchester Mystery House
One in gift shop. Another in the gun gallery
Machine Type: electric
Number of Dies: 1
Cost to Roll Coin: .50
Denomination of Rolled Coin: PENNY
Design #1 , (H), dotted border, "Winchester Mystery House"
Design #2 , (H), dotted border, [guns], "Winchester Mystery House, San Jose, Ca"

Kelley Park
Happy Hollow Petting Zoo - A San Francisco Penny Machine Company machine is located there. Horizontal with "Happy Hollow Park & Zoo" written in lettering reminiscent of the big letters on the walls of a kindergarten. There is a train with five cars and steam coming out of the engine weaving its way across the top of the coin, four little critter footprints at the bottom and a mouse wqith his tail going through the 'o's in zoo. This is one of the machines where heads/tails is randomized due to the coin freefalling onto the roller entrance. It's the only machine at Kelley Park.

Santa Clara
Paramount's Great America
Carousel Horse facing right (H), "PARAMOUNT'S GREAT AMERICA", Jim Dunden engraving
Top Gun Logo (H), "PARAMOUNT'S in tiny text above GREAT AMERICA above TG logo Jim Dunden engraving
Vortex logo (H), "Vortex, GREAT AMERICA in logo"
Drop Zone logo (H), "DROP ZONE STUNT TOWER in logo + PARAMOUNT'S GREAT AMERICA TM Below" - Note: this seems to be the only coin with the trademark symbol.
Drop zone tower graphic viewed from above with exaggerated perspective (V), "THE DROP ZONE STUNT TOWER + PARAMOUNT'S GREAT AMERICA"
Fred Flintstone full standing view (V), "PARAMOUNT'S GREAT AMERICA"
Large line drawing of Dino (V), "PARAMOUNT'S GREAT AMERICA"
Days of Thunder logo (H), "PARAMOUNT'S GREAT AMERICA"
INVERTIGO logo

Sausalito- along the main street there... somewhere.
Magnet Madness, 795 Bridgeway, Sausalito

Vallejo
Marine World Africa USA
All coins have a single picture in the center and the same text, "MARINE WORLD + AFRICA USA". There are 12 images which include:
Tiger and elephant - located in front of the restrooms next to the elephant rides.
Orca - in front of the Orca/Dolphin arena
Shark - at the entrance to Shark Experience
Walrus - at the exit of Walrus Experience
Koala - in front of the restrooms next to the "midway"
MWAUSA logo - in front of the restrooms adjacent to the aquarium.
Other images are 2 other logos,Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, Flamingo, Giraffe, and Star Fish.

Yosemite
The Met Cinema
40015 Hwy. 49, Oakhurst, Ca.
(209)683-1234
Twelve miles south of one entrance to Yosemite. Left at the 1st light in town & 1st right into shopping center. Located on the corner of Hwys 41 & 49. Machine is actually in front of the little store, Nearly Natural Wonders, next door and stuck behind a support post in the walkway so that it cannot be seen from the parking lot, which is owned and attached to the theater.
Manufacturer: Eurolink
Machine Type: electric
Number of Dies: 1
Cost to Roll Coin: .50 + penny
Denomination of Rolled Coin: PENNY
Design Information: (H), dotted border, "Yosemite", [Mountains on both sides forming a valley that runs down towards you, trees lining the botton of mountains & valley]
Additional Die Comments: Working Well as of 9/98
Contact for Trading
Chip Saylor - csaylor@webtv.net

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