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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.
The carousel was the 45th carousel constructed by the Philadelphia Toboggan Co. for the Cincinnati Zoo in 1918. Out of 5,000 wooden carousels originally built, PTC45 is one of fewer then 150 still operating today.
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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.
Carousels can be magical things; perhaps it is the obvious link to our childhoods. This one was shot at a local country carnival.
This carousel is such a nice concept. They took children's drawings and made a carousel from them. You can see the drawings there. It is closed for repair, but you can shoot through gaps in the security gate.
This colorful carousel is complete with hand-carved wooden animals and a Wurlitzer band organ. Herschell-Spillman made the only carousels with giant green frogs--and they are the only carousel animals that wear human clothing.
The Herschell-Spillman Company built this carousel in 1913 in North Teswanda, New York. Their talented craftsmen created a wider variety of hand-carved carousel animals of any manufacturer, ranging from storks, to giraffes to zebras. Although the original location of this carousel is unknown, it operated in Spokane, Washington from 1923 until the 1950’s when it was moved from Liberty Lake, Washington to Greenfield Village.
A main attraction, the carousel is a symbol of an era that centered around the turn of the century, The colorful carousel has never lost its appeal. Young and old alike are still enthralled with an old carousel.
Some of the first American carousels were made and used in New York. In the 1890’s there were carousels at North Beach, Long Island, Brooklyn, and at Central Park as well as at locations throughout upstate New York. Today the Herschell-Spillman Carousel Factory in North Tonawanda, New York is on the National Register of Historic Places and serves as a carousel museum. Restored Herschell-Spillman carousels are now featured at Greenfield Village, the Strong Museum in Rochester, New York, in Livingston, South Dakota, and in Bickleton, Washington.