Carousel News & Trader Magazine,
May 2006 Issue No. 4, Vol. 22
COVER: English Anderson carousel centaur depicting Captain Edward Smith from the Boer War period, carved in early 1900. Restored and unrestored. Photo by Brian Steptoe.
CONTENTS:
- Libertyland, Elvis’s Amusement Park, set to go to auction, June 21, 2006; ca. 1909 Dentzel carousel will not be auctioned.
- Jungleland Park in Atlantic Beach, NC auctioned off
- “In the Arms of Katrina? The Rescue of an Angel,” carousel lovers tell of the trials of surviving the hurricane
- Cover feature: “Round About Relics” fascinating new book on the English fairground roundabout carvers from the late-Victorian and Edwardian era, by John Barker
- CENTER PHOTO: 1910 D. C. Muller zebra in original paint from the Merillat collection. The carousel zebra last rode on the Conneaut Lake Park carousel and wears the initials of the carousel maker, T. M. Harton.
- Brian Rowly’s Metamora, MI carousel animal auction
- Phoenix Zoo, originally the “Maytag Zoo” in Papago Park, AZ welcomes new Chance Morgan carousel with funding assistance from Coca Cola
- A look back at Murphy’s Hippodrome and Carousel (1908-1920) Savin Rock, West Haven, CT
