717 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA , 94108 Phone: (415) 989-5182 Website There are two four design hand crank penny machines now at the Chinatown Kite Shop. It may have been here for a couple months. The machine are on the sidewalk in front of the store.
The store opens at about 10 AM.
Parking is hard to find a lot of the time.
Machine 1 designs are:
1) Cable Car,
2) Golden Gate Bridge,
3) Maneki-Neko (Beckoning Cat),
4) Long thin Dragon
Machine 2: Designs are:
1) 'Old Ships at Hyde Street Pier San Francisco', Sailing ship,
2) 'I Left My (Image of a Heart) in San Francisco',
3) Cable Car with buildings around,
4) Pagoda over Golden Gate Bridge.
7/12/25 All rolls still $0.51 per coin. All rolls good except on Machine 1 Golden Gate Bridge, it's mis-aligned and rolls short closer to half of a roll. Someone added a new "red Arrow" for reference point, however tried to this roll 4 times on this one coin to no avail. STJ |