SEPTEMBER 2014 CURENT-DAILY CAROUSEL NEWS
Deal averts sale of NJ shore town’s historic carousel
Sylvan Beach Businesses Bring in Big Buck$
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SYLVAN BEACH< NY – The opening of the Sylvan Beach Amusement Park was twice-delayed this year. But despite this, business-owners are calling the summer a success. The historic Carello’s Carousel had its doors open since the middle of May. They say its longstanding history helped to keep the business coming. [An early 1900s Looff carousel once operated at Sylvan Beach, but the figures were sold off in 1973. An antique mechanism now operates with 1950s metal figures.
Carousel of Dreams opens Sept. 5 in Kennewick
Hoffman’s Playland owners postpone auction as they consider purchase offers
Albany Business Review – Sept. 3, 2014
The owners of Hoffman’s Playland have postponed an auction of the rides at the popular amusement park in Colonie, New York as they entertain “serious offers” for the equipment, their attorney said Wednesday night.
Berkshire Carousel introduces café, entertainment
Berkshire Eagle
Dinner, entertainment and wine tastings to benefit the Berkshire Carousel will be introduced this weekend at the Carousel Workshop, 63 Flansburg Ave. Berkshire Carousel’s Café Rose will open Friday, Sept. 19, with “A Cabaret with Mary Verdi.” Dinner starts at 6 p.m. followed by entertainment from 7 to 9 p.m. Verdi will debut a new song dedicated to the carousel. The café will feature the foods of Aura Whitman of Naturally Catering & Takeout, formerly of Reva’s. Dinner reservations are required at (413) 344-4742. The series will continue each Friday with live entertainment from jazz to classical blues. A special wine and cheese menu will be available at 7 p.m. For more information and dinner choices, visit Facebook.com/berkshire.carousel.
William F. Mangels Exhibition looks at genius of Brooklyn carousel inventor
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Coney Island’s historic B&B Carousell is among several vintage attractions still thrilling visitors at the famous amusement park today. What parkgoers may not know is that William F. Mangels designed and built it. Mangels was a mechanical and creative genius who enthralled the masses with his carousels, shooting ranges and rides like the Whip and Tickler during the early part of the 20th century. He’s the subject of an exhibition at Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery where he’s buried — just miles from Coney Island where he lived and worked.
Seaside Heights dedicates monument to ‘new beginnings’
Asbury Park Press
SEASIDE HEIGHTS – This has been a season for monuments in Ocean County. First there was the statue of an-All American family unveiled last month in Toms River, honoring the resiliency of locals in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, which was built by the Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation on land donated by the township at the jughandle for Route 166. Then on Friday, there was the dedication for the Carousel Monument in Seaside Heights, where traffic exits from the base of the Thomas A. Mathis Bridge, near Bay Boulevard and Sumner Avenue.
Fairground attraction is back for special outing
IT ALL comes round again and at Witney Feast one carousel is doing so for the 50th year running. The 125-year-old Golden Gallopers, which has been passed through three generations of the Noyce family, only turns out three times a year. The historic Witney Feast, which first started in 1243, is one of the chosen few events where the Noyces show off the stunning merry-go-round. Fairground attraction owner James Noyce first brought the carousel to the feast in 1964.
Carousel lovers from around the nation flock to Queens and visit two historic carousels
New York Daily News
They found the brass ring right here in Queens. More than 200 carousel lovers from across the nation converged on the borough’s two historic wooden carousels Friday to take a ride and marvel at the priceless artifacts. “New York has some of the finest carousels in our nation,” said Bette Largent, president of the National Carousel Association. The visits to the amusement rides at Forest Park and Flushing Meadows-Corona Park were part of group’s annual convention. They explored 11 carousels in the New York City region during their trip.
Carousel could be centerpiece of Seaside museum
Asbury Park Press
SEASIDE HEIGHTS – The proposed deal to keep the historic Casino Pier Carousel in town could be an economic boon for this oceanfront borough, Borough Attorney George R. Gilmore said.
“We need something to give us a shot in the arm,” Gilmore said. The historic carousel, which was scheduled to be sold this fall at auction, would instead remain here under a proposed land-swap deal between the borough and the owners of Casino Pier.
