Ripley’s Believe It or Not will charge $1.50 for adult admission and 75 cents for children on the final day of its Fisherman’s Wharf attraction, returning to the prices visitors paid when it opened in 1967.
The Odditorium, which opened at 175 Jefferson St. on Feb. 2, 1967, is officially set to shutter on Dec. 1. In the weeks leading up to the closure, the company is offering $19.67 admission on Thursdays and a silent auction of selected exhibits and artifacts.
The auction includes several objects with San Francisco ties, among them a Golden Gate Bridge made on the head of a pin, toothpick replicas of the bridge, Joe DiMaggio’s crutches and a chicken-wire portrait of Janis Joplin…