The Carousel News & Trader 2003

COVER: Old carousel picture/art from 1934, New York Herald Tribune

CONTENTS:

• Auction Under The Big Top, PA sale results

• IAAPA 2002 photos, report

• Carousel donkey and elephant sold at Washington D.C. Party Animal auction fundraiser

• Dino’s First Ride; Croatian artist Dino Idrizbegovic

• Feature: Brass Ring Entertainment restores NY State Museum’s historic Herschell-Spillman/Dare carousel

• Albany Carousel History by John Scherer

• The Night 4922 Blew Up, New York Central Railroad train story by Simon Herring

• Pattern: Allan Herschell style jumper

COVER: Two hand-carved horses for Brass Ring’s Elk City, OK carousel

CONTENTS:

• Brass Ring Entertainment builds custom wood carved Elk City, OK Centennial carousel

• Lake Compounce historic carousel gets a new Pavilion

• Carousel Theme Wedding, Margaret and Dave Franklin

• Sandusky, OH, Merry Go Round Museum 2003 exhibit

• Jennifer Deck. artist/carver

• Nancy Smalley memoriam

• Walter Dunlap memoriam

• Report on new generation of import reproductions

CARVER FEATURES:

• Fort Edmonton lead horse, Bob Cherot

• Carousel Magic

• Bob Grootveld

• Debbie Martinez

• Donald Powell, Australia

• Michael Younkle

• Carving a Donkey, Clay Swope & Craig Swanson

• Charles Hunt

• Oakland Beach carousel, RI

• ShowMe Wooden Carousels

• Raymond Green

• Tracy Kochanski

• Howard Anderson

• Pattern, P.T.C. style

COVER: Two rare Allan Herschell Donkeys; Restoration by Wolf, Steve Crescenze

CONTENTS:

• Cover story - Feature on Herschell carousel Donkeys (Mules) by Leah Farnsworth

• PTC hordes stolen from Strates Shows storage

• Donkey Facts and Trivia

• Reproduction Watch - Photos

• 2003 Annual Buyer’s Guide Listings

• Operating Carousel Directory listings

• Hooked on Carousels, handcrafted carousel rugs, by Ted Fijal

• The Bear Mountain Carousel, upstate New York

• Pattern, Donkey

• Organ Notes, Gibtown, FL show

COVER: Ca. 1917 C.W. Parker Rose Horse from Forest Park, Fort Worth, TX, carousel

CONTENTS:

• Spillman Carousel factory Converts for World War II in 1942

• Dorney Park historic ThunderHawk roller coater turns 80

• City of Torrance, CA, Carousel Flag Horse Rose Parade Float

• Cover Story: The Kentucky Derby and The Run for the Roses, A Look at Carousel Rose Horses, by Leah and Peter Farnsworth

• Saint Joseph, MI Carmel Carousel goes to Kennewick, Washington

• Pattern, Spillman style rose horse

• Time Running out for Palace Amusements building in Asbury Park, NJ

• Regarding Artwork, Byerley print

COVER: A Big Horn Sheep, for the newly carved Helena, MT, carousel

CONTENTS:

• Empire State, NY, Carousel finds a new home

• Stinson Organ Notes; MIDI Systems

• A History of the carousels of Dorney Park, PA

• Auction Under the Big Top to feature armored, jeweled Carmel stander

• Cover Story, The Great Northern Carousel, Helena, MT

• Bob Kissel’s Spring Carousel and Collectibles Auction (Results)

• Pattern: Dentzel style goat

• New wood carved carousel for Soldotna, Alaska

• UK Fairground Heritage Trust News by Brian Steptoe

Cover: PTC Lady Liberty “Columbia” chariot from the Filler Collection

CONTENTS:

• Restorations by Wolf 12th Annual Open House

• Carousel to Return to Eldridge Park, Elmira, NY

• Richland Carrousel Park Armed Forces Day

• Ohio Amusement Parks Vintage Postcard book

• Painted Horses, Carousel Art Exhibit in Thousand Oaks, CA

• NCA Technical Conference 2003 to Shelby, NC Herschell-Spillman

• Six Flags Worlds of Adventure (Geauga Lake) Illions carousel

• Manhattan’s Bryant Park welcomes new carousel

• Carousel Artists: Shelley Gorny Schoenherr, Judith Lindenberg, Erskine Wood, Jerry Reinhardt, Jess Zavela

COVER: Stein & Goldstein stander restored by Steve Crescenze finally heading home

CONTENTS:

• Auction Under the Big Top 2003 auction results: Fun Forest Carmel sells for $30,250

• New building for Columbus Zoo ca. 1914 Mangels-Illions carousel

• Great Midwest Carousel Auction 2003 results

• New Additions for New England Carousel Museum

• Birthday Celebration for Forest Park Muller carousel

• What is a Copyright? by bonnie Davis

• Dogwood Lakes Fun Park to auction

• COAA Band Organ Rally, Holland, MI

• Stinson honored by Ohio

• Earl Jamison Memoriam

• Frank Rider Memoriam

• Pattern; Stein & Goldstein-style rose horse

COVER: Tribute to PTC 38 lost to fire in 1983, Arlene Landers Artwork

CONTENTS:

• Miniature Carousels by Palmer Burke

• Marvin Sylvor looking to sell Fabricon Company

• Balboa Park, San Diego historic Herschell-Spillman Carousel to relocate

• Hillcrest Park, IL to auction

• Rocky Springs Carousel Association and The Pottstown Carousel

• Feature on Carousel Artist, Arlene Landers

• The Carousel Art of Deborah Budney

• Carousel Folk Art by Ellie Haggerty

• Golden Age of Roller Coasters in Vintange Postcard book

COVER: Rare Herschell Bucking Bronco, Marlene Irvin restoration

CONTENTS:

• Cover Story, A horse of a Different Shape - Carousel Bucking Broncos, by Marianne Stevens

• Hanford, California Allan Herschell Carousel

• Carousel Workshop Third Annual Open House

• Groundbreaking for C.W. Parker Museum in Leavenworth, KS

• Photo Essay on NCA 2003 Carousel Convention in Binghamton, NY: Visits to Robertson Museum, George W. Johnson Park, Highland Park, Albany State Museum, Congress Park, Schenevus, Recreation Park, Ross Park and C. Fred Johnson Park

• Pattern: Bucking Bronco

• Carousel Candy Caddy

COVER: 1890s Dentzel Stander restored to original paint by Tony Orlando - holiday cover

COVER:

• Victory Ride; Visit to Martha’s Vineyard by Janet Shartle

• PBS Antiques Roadshow Make Major Antique carousel figure appraisal error

• Hillcrest Park Auction results

• Auburn, IN, Norton Consignment auction results

• Hempstead Lake, NY, Long Island Mangels-Illions carousel gets restored

• Auction Under the Big Top in PA, November 2003 auction results

• Pleasurelands UK Exhibition feature, by Brian Steptoe

• Jack’s Painted Ponies, Jack Youngquist

• Midwest Old Threshers carousel, IA, rebuilding chariots

• Great Danes ride carousel

• How Carousel Bug Bit Us by Joe and Melissa Vesce

• Tony Orlando photos of cover horse restoration

• Cover story, Feature on Carousel Collectors, Al and Peggy Rappaport