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The best ride you will ever go on!! It's not just your normal carousel; this carousel - found at the Blackpool Pleasure Beach - is one of the fastest moving, scariest carousels I've ever come across. I first went on when I was 8, but rediscovered it when me, my parents and Clara went to the World Line Dance Masters, August 2005.
Photo by Mary Jane Bent.
The Children's Carousel Tea is an annual event that raises funds for the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, a nonprofit organization that partners with the City of Pittsburgh to restore the city's park system. The 2nd annual Carousel Tea was held May 30, 2009 in Schenley Plaza and welcomed more than 300 guests.
On a really cold and rainy Bank Holiday at a county show. This steam powered roundabout/ carousel/merry go round was well worth the wait especially as we found horses called Alice and Emily which suited our girls fine as they saw them as personalised. Used the Blackberry, and I like the result.
The carousel was manufactured in 1896 by Gustav Dentzel of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the 1904 St. Louis Exposition and later sold to the City of Meridian. A cabinet maker by trade, Dentzel was a young German immigrant to the United States. In 1860, he established the Dentzel Factory. His family had manufactured carousels in Germany and offered great support to Gustav's American venture. The Dentzel Factory manufactured two or three carousels per year and supplied parks throughout the East and South. All of the animals were hand-carved out of poplar or basswood. The carousels often had original oil paintings as well. The arrival of the Great Depression spelled the end to the factory in 1929. The Dentzel Carousel arrived in Meridian in 1909 and has occupied its same location in Highland Park. Its house is the only remaining original carousel building built from a Dentzel blueprint.
In 1977, Meridian's Dentzel Carousel and Carousel House along with Highland Park were placed on the National Register of Historic Places. In October 1986, the Department of the Interior designated the Highland Park Dentzel Carousel and Carousel House as National Landmarks. This honor was given to 11 carousels nationwide, with Meridian's being the only one located in the South.