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Katie rides a two-story European carousel. (The camera flash couldn't fill in the harsh lighting, alas!)
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The zoo has a new carousel! It just began operation on September 26. It will be closed during the winter, but will certainly get lots of riders in the spring.
Taylors' carousel in central Carlisle. The horses were going round with just two small children aboard.
My first trip to Salem was enhanced by the special beauty of the hand crafted, hand painted carousel located at Riverfront Park
This carousel can be seen at the C.W. Parker Carousel Museum in Leavenworth, Kansas. Parker began making carousels and other amusement park rides in Abilene, Kansas, before a dispute over street access arose. Eventually, the company is sold and moves out of state.
There are plenty of traditional carnival style attractions floating around Disney. One exceptional example is this carousel at Downtown Disney Marketplace. Here you can even find vestiges of some attractions that once were…
Merry-Go-Round Ponies
Some day I should like to see carousel ponies that don't look like they are already in agony or striving to outrun a puma. I guess the look comes from the artist's desire to invoke the perception of speed.
The first carousels date back to the 12th Century, when the Turks hitched horses to a central hub to train their cavalry soldiers. Think of a mounted May pole… By the 14th Century, European nobility had similar constructions behind their castle walls, kept out of the sight of the peasants (it's good to be the King) and in the early 18th Century craftsmen built wooden menageries for festival rides.
These aren't the best horses I've seen, but they are better than many. The machine is of recent construction, and the horses aren't terribly detailed, but they are more convincing than some of the flat, bland, plastic ponies coming out of Asia.
ISO 400, Æ’4.0 @ 1/80 second, 96 mm (35mm equiv.)
The zoo has a new carousel! It just began operation on September 26. It will be closed during the winter, but will certainly get lots of riders in the spring.
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.