OCTOBER 2014 – Current Historic Carousel News Alerts…
Glen Echo Park holds annual family festival
Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
Glen Echo Park held its annual Then & Wow! family festival on Sunday, celebrating its revitalization and recalling its history. The event featured kiddie rides and arcade games, plus videos and an exhibition on the park’s history. The festival also celebrated the last day of the Dentzel Carousel’s 94th season in the park; the carousel will reopen in the spring….
Looff Carousel an important landmark
Valley Breeze
Thanks so much for recently posting the Slater Park carousel article in The Breeze. Many people attended the presentation at the R.I. Watercolor Society on Sept. 14 and they said, “I saw it in The Breeze!” Bill Mulholland, the retired, long-time park director came because he saw the article and that meant more to me than anything. Eric Pahlke, noted carousel photographer and author of The Golden Age, East Coast Carousels drove from San Diego, Calif., to do a presentation highlighting East Coast carousels including Slater Park and Crescent Park. The Slater Park Looff Carousel has a reputation as one of the oldest, fastest, best maintained, and best restored carousels in the country…
Nederland Carousel of Happiness celebrates record-breaking weekend ridership
The Daily Camera
The Carousel of Happiness in Nederland had one of its highest ridership days ever on Saturday, and Sunday came close, said carousel director Katrina Harms. More than a year after floodwaters damaged and closed Colo. 119 through Boulder Canyon, Nederland business owners are celebrating the return of the “leaf peepers” — those tourists who flock to the tiny mountain town to see the autumn colors. Last weekend, the peepers crammed into Nederland restaurants and shops while taking a break from the yellow aspen trees, a boost that business owners hope will tide them over through the winter…
Cowboy Carousel Committee chase donors for restoration project
Kotatv
BUFFALO, Wyo. – A Buffalo carousel committee has a clever plan to increase awareness public about its carousel. 10 horses from the Historic Cowboy Carousel in Buffalo were delivered to area businesses for display. The Cowboy Carousel Committee hopes that displaying some of the horses will raise awareness to its restoration project. The committee says the project consists of restoring the carousel and the horses, replacing the drive gear that makes the carousel move and building a new facility for the carousel…
Oct. 5 art auction proceeds to benefit Albany carousel
Albany Democrat Herald
A fundraiser art auction for Albany’s Historic Carousel will be held from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, at the carousel museum and studio, 503 First Ave. W. Visitors are invited to bid during a silent auction on numerous works of art, including paintings, sculpture and more…
Dreamland Margate in UK to open as ‘world’s first heritage amusement park‘
The Independent
KENT, UK – In its heyday, Margate attracted millions of holiday-makers a year and was the preferred seaside destination for Londoners from Del Boy to Chas and Dave. Now the Kent seaside resort hopes to revive its fortunes by rebuilding its iconic Dreamland amusement park to attract a more modern London tribe: the hipsters. After an 11-year fight to save the site from developers, Dreamland Margate will next year open as the “world’s first heritage amusement park” with vintage funfair rides and original fittings. The 16-acre amusement park will include 15 rides dating back to the 1920s, many the last remaining examples of their kind. These include the Caterpillar, a ride that shrouded users in darkness and proved popular among “courting couples” in the 1950s. Dreamland is one of the oldest amusement parks in Britain, dating back to the railway boom of the early 1860s when it was operated by circus impresario “Lord” George Sanger. At its peak, the site had 2.5 million visitors a year. It closed in 2006…
