Photos tagged as carousel

Day 203 - Salem, Carousel w. Mom & Bill

People in Salem have built a beautiful new (but old style) carousel. Here are my Uncle Bill & Mom posing by it.

• Date: 23 March 2008
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Salem, USA: gallery
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Day 203 - Salem, Carousel Top Detail

This is a detail of one of the carvings along the top of the Carousel. Each one depicts a scene from Oregon.

• Date: 23 March 2008
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Salem, USA: gallery
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Day 203 - Salem, Carousel Horse

The horses are all hand carved. They even offer classes in carousel horse carving!

• Date: 23 March 2008
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Salem, USA: gallery
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Day 203 - Salem, Carousel

The Carousel is housed inside the Glass area of this building in downtown Salem, close to the Willamette River.

• Date: 23 March 2008
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Salem, USA: gallery
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Day 203 - Carousel Horse Detail

I was very impressed with the detail carving for the carousel horses. These are truely an art form.

• Date: 23 March 2008
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Salem, USA: gallery
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Day 134 - Carousel

This is in a city park in downtown St. Augustine. Someone found it in a barn in the midwest. They cleaned it up and reassembled it and it ran just fine. It only costs $1.00 to ride it.

• Date: 13 January 2008
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Saint Augustine, USA: gallery
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Day 29 - Carrousel Museum, woodshop

• Date: 30 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Buffalo, USA: gallery
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Day 29 - Carrousel Museum, Woodshop Bench

• Date: 30 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Buffalo, USA: gallery
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Day 29 - Carrousel Museum, Viking Bench

Many carrousel's had benches to ride on, not just the horses and other animals that went up and down. I think this bench was just too cute.

• Date: 30 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Buffalo, USA: gallery
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Day 29 - Carrousel Museum, Ad

• Date: 30 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Buffalo, USA: gallery
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Day 29 - Carrousel Museum, Pig

Older Carrousels especially used other animals for rides, not just horses

• Date: 30 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Buffalo, USA: gallery
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Day 29 - Carrousel Museum, Peforating machine (RT)

Since Music was such an important part of a carrousel ride, the Museum includes an exhibit on how the Music Box and roll paper worked. This is from the right side of the machine that punched holes in multiple rolls of paper (based on a master roll) to duplicate music rolls.

• Date: 30 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Buffalo, USA: gallery
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Day 29 - Carrousel Museum, Peforating Machine (Left)

Since Music was such an important part of a carrousel ride, the Museum includes an exhibit on how the Music Box and roll paper worked. This is from the left side of the machine that punched holes in multiple rolls of paper (based on a master roll) to duplicate music rolls.

• Date: 30 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Buffalo, USA: gallery
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Day 29 Carrousel Museum, Peforating Machine Info

This is a diagram of how the Peforating Machine used a master roll to make copies of music that a music box could 'read' to play music.

• Date: 30 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Buffalo, USA: gallery
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Day 29 - Carrousel Museum, Painting

How an Allan Herschell Carrousel looked in action. This factory made Carrousel's specifically for county fairs and carnivals.

• Date: 30 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Buffalo, USA: gallery
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Day 29 - Carrousel Museum, Music Rolls

Samples of the paper rolls used to play various tunes in a music box during a carrousel ride.

• Date: 30 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Buffalo, USA: gallery
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Day 29 - Carrousel Museum, Music Box

Photo is supposed to be a man tuning the notes (I think)

• Date: 30 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Buffalo, USA: gallery
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Day 29 - Carrousel Museum, Mom Riding the Lead Horse

The highlight of the Museum is an actual 1916 working Carrousel! Mom chose the lead horse to ride of course.

• Date: 30 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Buffalo, USA: gallery
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Day 29 - Carrousel Museum, Loading Dock

The photo's represent rides in packing crates, ready to be loaded for transport. Since the Herschell product was for fairs and carnivals, the product had to be easily transportable.

• Date: 30 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Buffalo, USA: gallery
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Day 29 - Carrousel Museum, Horse in Motion

Notice how the ears are pinned back and the hoofs turned up? This is so there are fewer points to break off on a carrousel that was meant to be moved around.

• Date: 30 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Buffalo, USA: gallery
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Day 29 - Carrousel Museum, Tan Horse

Another example of fine woodcarving.

• Date: 30 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Buffalo, USA: gallery
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Day 29 - Carrousel Museum, Horse w. Saddle

The saddle on this example is a bear skin. It gives you a sense of how much creativity and variety the artisans put into their craft.

• Date: 30 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Buffalo, USA: gallery
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Day 29 - Carrousel Museum, Shop Photo

This is how the shop looked during it's heyday.

• Date: 30 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Buffalo, USA: gallery
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Day 29 - Carrousel Museum, Entrance

This is the entrance to the Carrousel Factory and Museum. It is actually in Tonawanda, NY which is a little bit north of Buffalo. Carrousel is also spelled carousel.

• Date: 30 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Buffalo, USA: gallery
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Day 29 - Carrousel Museum, Dog

• Date: 30 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Buffalo, USA: gallery
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