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IMAX, and the largest screen in Northern California at the time, the Pictorium was a wonderful piece of the Great America experience in the 70s through to the 90s.

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The Tidal Wave was an out-and-back single loop coaster that was a lot of fun and a lot of folks first loop!

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Marine World Africa USA was a hugely popular theme park where you could get upclose with animals, later included a waterpark, and would move to a little city called Vallejo before changing names... a lot.

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A true flying coaster, where you could pretend you were Superman. It didn't last long, but man, was it freakin' scary!!!

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Many important aspects of Steampunk culture happened here. The debut of Gail Carriger, the introduction of Steampunk Scholar to the world, and you can make an argument that it was the first dedicated Steampunk con in the world. Well, it'll be an argument.

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The place had a leaky roof, was a terrible place to keep artifacts, and more than once did I have to sleep there, but it was also a place of multi-sensory magic!

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The Computer Museum History Center was the Silicon Valley spin-off of The Computer Museum in Boston. It was a magical, strange, wonderful place, that eventually became some other museum that is now dead to me.

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One of Douglas Adams' final appearances was at the Museum, featured him telling stories, and gifting a wonderful artifact of his career that you can still see on display at some museum.

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The connection Steve Jobs had with Silicon Valley was deep and wide.

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The Wooden seating area in the back was where it was at, but it was one of those places you'd go for a good cup

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