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Carousel Lion

nobody@ipernity.com (Ceropegia) — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:35:06 +0000

On the Liberty Carousel in Belmont Park at Mission Beach is a reproduction of an old style carouse. It has classic style wooden animals to ride and is decorated with scenes of San Diego's past and present. San Diego, California (IMG_4139)

Liberty Carousel

nobody@ipernity.com (Ceropegia) — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:37:42 +0000

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The Liberty Carousel in Belmont Park at Mission Beach is a reproduction of an old style carouse. It has classic style wooden animals to ride and is decorated with scenes of San Diego's past and present. San Diego, California (IMG_4138)

Carousel Lion

nobody@ipernity.com (Ceropegia) — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:37:49 +0000

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Liberty Carousel

nobody@ipernity.com (Ceropegia) — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:37:52 +0000

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Carousel Horse

nobody@ipernity.com (Ceropegia) — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 06:00:21 +0000

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A Spillman Engineering outside row jumper on the Griffith Park Carousel. Built in 1926 by the Spillman Engineering Company and brought to Griffith Park in 1937, the Merry-Go-Round boasts 68 horses, everyone a jumper. Each horse is finely carved with jewel-encrusted bridles, detailed draped blankets and decorated with sunflowers and lion's heads. A Stinson 165 Military Band Organ, reputed to be the largest band organ accompanying a carousel on the West Coast, plays over 1500 selections of marches and waltz music. (DSC02388)

Carousel Horse

nobody@ipernity.com (Ceropegia) — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 06:00:23 +0000

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Carousel Horse

nobody@ipernity.com (Ceropegia) — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 06:00:35 +0000

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Carousel Horse

nobody@ipernity.com (Ceropegia) — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 06:01:50 +0000

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A 2nd row jumper on the Griffith Park Carousel, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California (DSC02373)

Carousel Horse

nobody@ipernity.com (Ceropegia) — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 06:00:33 +0000

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A third row jumper on the Griffith Park Carousel, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California (DSC02373)

Carousel Horse

nobody@ipernity.com (Ceropegia) — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 06:02:01 +0000

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Carousel Horse

nobody@ipernity.com (Ceropegia) — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 06:02:06 +0000

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Carousel Horse

nobody@ipernity.com (Ceropegia) — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 06:02:10 +0000

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Carousel Horse

nobody@ipernity.com (Ceropegia) — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 06:01:34 +0000

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A Looff outside row jumper Built in 1926 by the Spillman Engineering Company and brought to Griffith Park in 1937, the Merry-Go-Round boasts 68 horses, everyone a jumper. Each horse is finely carved with jewel-encrusted bridles, detailed draped blankets and decorated with sunflowers and lion's heads. A Stinson 165 Military Band Organ, reputed to be the largest band organ accompanying a carousel on the West Coast, plays over 1500 selections of marches and waltz music. (DSC02380)

Carousel Rabbit

nobody@ipernity.com (Ceropegia) — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 12:35:44 +0000

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This is an Ed Roth carved modern replacement figure that is a "guest" animal on Philadelphia Toboggan Company Carousel #62 which was built in 1922 and is housed in the Looff Hippodrome (a National Historic Landmark) at the Santa Monica Pier. Moved there in 1947, it is the third carousel to be housed in the historic building and is the carousel that was featured in the movie "The Sting". The carousel originally had only horses, but after restoration work in 2002 by Roth, who is a modern master carousel carver, the rabbit and other animals including a goat, and even a triceratops, carved by him, have served as guest animals in a couple of places on the carousel where an original horse once stood. Santa Monica, California (DSC01839)

B&B Carousell Horses

nobody@ipernity.com (Ceropegia) — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 17:00:05 +0000

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Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York

B&B Carousell

nobody@ipernity.com (Ceropegia) — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 22:02:06 +0000

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Located in Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, the carousel has 50 hand-carved horses and two chariots, as well as a 66-key German-made Bruder Gebruder organ. It is the work of William F. Mangels, a builder and an inventor of early-20th-century amusement rides who had a workshop on 5th Street and Surf Avenue in Coney Island. Mangels patented a new type of gearing that improved the up and down movement of non-stationary horses. Although originally built in 1919 in Coney Island with a frame dating from 1906, it spent its first decade and a half in New Jersey, possibly in Asbury Park. In the early 1920s it received a new set of horses that were carved by Charles Carmel, one of Coney Island’s most celebrated carousel makers. It was finally brought to Coney Island in the 1930's after being purchased by William Bishoff and Herman Brienstein who renamed it the “B&B Carousell” (with the two “L”s). By 2005, the B&B Carousell was the last surviving carousel at Coney Island. Its owners planned to dismantle it and auction it off, horse by horse but the city stepped in and paid $1.8 million to buy the intact merry-go-round. It was sent to Ohio where another $1.7 was spent for its restoration which took 8 years. During restoration, the signature of the master carver Marcus Charles Illions was uncovered on the flank of one of the horses. It is the only horse on the B&B Carousell by Illions, a Coney Island carver noted for his flamboyant style. The horse is one of four created in 1909 to celebrate the centennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. The other three are in private collections. Apparently, an earlier owner had removed one of the horses to give to his daughter before selling the carousel. The subsequent owner then filled the hole with the Illions show horse. It is the most ornate horse on the carousel. Its body armor is covered in colorful rhinestones, decorative scales, and a relief of Lincoln’s profile. (IMG_5419)

Wurlitzer Band Organ

nobody@ipernity.com (Ceropegia) — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 02:07:42 +0000

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On the Philadelphia Toboggan Company Carousel #62, built in 1922, housed in the Looff Hippidrome a National Historic Landmark), Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California (DSC01851)

Chariot on the B&B Carousell

nobody@ipernity.com (Ceropegia) — Tue, 12 May 2015 20:06:30 +0000

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B&B Carousell

nobody@ipernity.com (Ceropegia) — Tue, 12 May 2015 20:05:40 +0000

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B&B Carousel

nobody@ipernity.com (Ceropegia) — Tue, 12 May 2015 20:05:13 +0000

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