<P> More than thirty ships have run aground on the southern shore of the Golden Gate below the Cliff House . </P> <P> The area immediately around Cliff House is part of the setting of Jack London's novel The Scarlet Plague (1912). Jack London also sets the meeting of Maud Sangster and Pat Glendon Jr. here in The Abysmal Brute (1913). An image of the third Cliff House was used on the cover of the album Imaginos by Blue Öyster Cult . </P> <P> When the Cliff House became part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in 1977, the National Park Service contracted with Dan and Mary Hountalas as official concessionaires of the property . The NPS renewed its contract with the Hountalas family, under the name Peanut Wagon, in 1998 . Peanut Wagon continues to manage Cliff House operations and worked with the Park Service for the extensive site restoration that was completed in 2004 . </P> <P> The Cliff House features two restaurants, the casual dining Bistro Restaurant and the more formal Sutro's . Additionally, the Terrace Room serves a Sunday Brunch buffet . There is a gift shop in the building, and the historic camera obscura is on a deck overlooking the ocean . </P>

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