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Santa Cruz' famous vintage carousel, built in 1911 by Charles ID Looff, a danish woodcarver, has been featured in several movies. It has 73 horses & its music comes from an original 342-pipe Wurlitzer band organ. 100 years ago it cost a nickel to ride...today it costs $3. The carousel has been designated a national historic landmark. ( Antique tone applied to image. )
Santa Cruz is 110 kms south of San Francisco. Its boardwalk, along the Santa Cruz Main Beach, dates back to 1865 & is known as the "Coney Island of the West". The quiet town itself, with its attractive historical buildings, seems to have become a primary destination for transient youth which the municipality is non too happy about.
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Hmm, not very sharp, I'm afraid, but it's the only one I've got so I'm showing it anyway *~*
I love Carousels. Probably one of my all time favorite things. I couldnt wait to photograph Meagan on her very first ride.
Built in 1917, the Carousel is the 44th of its kind built by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company. In 1974, the Carousel was purchased from Roger Williams Amusement Park in Rhode Island.
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Trish and Jim at the Story City Carousel.
The Story City Carousel is always looking for volunteers. Sign up at www.vcstory.org
Menagerie Figure - Any carousel animal that was not a horse. Some popular menagerie figures were tigers, lions, bears, deer, pigs, goats, giraffes, rabbits, and cats. Some mythical creatures like the sea monster and hippocampus (front half of a horse and back half of a fish) were also found on carousels and would also be considered menagerie figures.
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Greenfield Village's Herschell-Spillman carousel was built in 1913 in North Tonawanda, New York. Its original location is unknown; it ran in Spokane, Washington, from 1923 until the 1950s.
The frog is the only animal on the carousel that wears clothes (the horses, of course, have saddles).
Big Rock Amusements Grand Carousel/Merry Go Round at the Cumberland County Fair. My wife and I spent most of the afternoon walking around the grounds.
There's a carousel in front of Westfield for the Christmas season, I guess. I've never seen it in use as I only pass it on my way to work. All the horses were different - this was the hunting one. I like the dead rabbit and rifle.
Waldameer's carousel is just a Chance fiberglass model; sadly, they sold their original carousel, though they still have the old building housing it.
Hartford, CT
This carousel was created in 1914
by Solomon Stein and Harry Goldstein.
To Holden Caulfield
In this classic JD Salinger novel, the carousel in New York City's Central Park served as the stage for the finale. The sixteen year old protagonist Holden Caulfield took his eleven year old sister and best friend Phoebe to ride the carousel. For Holden, the great thing about a carousel is that it has beauty and music and even motion. But it doesn't go anywhere. Nothing really changes. Much like his fascination with the exhibits in the Museum of Natural History, the carousel symbolizes Holden's obsession to cling to the innocence of childhood and to shield it from the nauseating phoniness of grownups.