Reserve your adventure (the rooms are $400 each) at find the entrance at 3362 Palace Drive, which loops behind the Palace of Fine Arts, in San Francisco.Īlso check out all 12 of the coolest Bay Area things you didn’t know you could do. Wear sneakers and comfortable clothes long pants are advised for the Roosevelt room. The Houdini and Roosevelt rooms can be played with six to 10 friends, ages 16 and up the Edison room holds up to eight. There’s a brand new Thomas Edison Escape Room, as well as a Roosevelt Escape Room that opened last year with hidden passages, mysterious puzzles, wartime codes and behind-the-scenes technical wizardry that propels the game to spectacular levels. Secret rooms to untangle puzzles and find your way out. Palace of Fine Arts takes you into Teddy Roosevelt’s parlor and a series of Palace Games’ elaborately designed Roosevelt Escape Room at San Francisco’s Now you, too, can test your wits in the Great Houdini Escape Room - a series of elaborately decorated rooms, filled with clever challenges, secret panels and fiendishly difficult puzzles, tucked deep inside the iconic building. That was all the inspiration Palace Games needed. Legend has it that Houdini built the world’s first contraption-filled “escape room” there as part of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition hoopla. The Great Houdini Escape Room is the world’s first escape room built 100 years ago by the escape master himself, Harry Houdini, as a challenge to 8 brilliant innovators, to see if they could escape his contraption filled room within 80 minutes. You can channel your inner escape artist - and hang with Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, John Philip Sousa and the rest of the gang - at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts. Our intrepid reporters - Jackie Burrell, Jessica Yadegaran and Tom Bentley - scoped out a dozen of them.Īmong them is the hot trend of escape rooms, playing off the great escapes of Harry Houdini. Special thanks to Don Capria, co-author of Colombo: The Unsolved Murder Selwyn Raab, veteran Mafia reporter and author of Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires and Geoff Schumacher, vice president of exhibits and programs for the Mob Museum in Las Vegas.It turns out the Bay Area has a ton of really cool things to do that many of us didn’t know about. On this day, Colombo’s dual life-as an media-facing advocate and as an underground criminal-will come crashing down in a violent display. It’s an open secret many people across the city know who he really is, and the FBI is hot on his tail, trying to catch him in the act. The problem? That same Joe Colombo is a leader of the Mafia, one of the heads of the “Five Families” in New York. Joe Colombo is the very public face of the League, a group that actively fights discrimination and ugly stereotypes against the Italian-American community, such as their association with organized crime and the Mafia. It’s the second annual “Unity Day” rally at Columbus Circle in New York City, organized by the Italian American Civil Rights League. Special thanks to Kisha James, Paula Peters, and David Silverman, author of This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving.Ĭlick here for a transcript of this episode. So what is the true story of Thanksgiving? And why is it so important for us to remember? This protest – a National Day of Mourning – continues to this day, now led by James’s granddaughter. America’s reckoning with the truth of Thanksgiving, James argued, would empower indigenous people to fight for their equal rights. This protest was organized by Wamsutta Frank James, a Wampanoag activist who wanted to draw attention to the full story of Thanksgiving – a story of fear, violence, and oppression that spanned generations. In Plymouth, Massachusetts, on the 350th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival, protestors gather under a statue of Massasoit, the Wampanoag leader who had made peace with the Pilgrims, and partook in the legendary Thanksgiving meal.
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