The Carousel News & Trader 2011

COVER: A 1915 Spillman jumper off of the Buffalo Brothers carousel, one of just two historic wooden portables still traveling with an active carnival, photo by Lee Harris

CONTENTS:

• From Dan’s Desk; Adirondack Carousel Back on Track

• Scenes from IAAPA, Orlando 2010

• Notes from Marianne; Strange Case of PTC #11 Carousel

• Ground Broken for PTC #61 Building - Jane’s Carousel in Brooklyn

• Riding with the Rabbit; Riding in Central Park

• The Last Three Dentzels; By Gray Tuttle

• Buffalo Bros. 1915 Spillman Carousel Still Traveling after a Century

• Auburn, CA, Carousel Figure Art Exhibit

• The Fate of PTC #29 in Texas

• Carousel News Briefs: Cruise Ship Carousel #2; Dinger figures in Cell Phone Commercial; Scenes from Silver Beach

COVER: One of the two ornate chariots aboard the 1928 PTC #84 carousel which operated at Palisades Park, NJ, from 1946 through 1971; now operating at Canada’s Wonderland, photo by John Caruso

CONTENTS:

• From Dan’s Desk: Loss of a Friend, Legendary Amusement Pioneer, Bud Hurlbut

• Notes from Marianne: Add a Dentzel to the List

• Riding with the Rabbit: Central Park Tales

• In Memoriam: Bud Hurlbut, Amusement Park Inventory, Innovator – Icon

• A Visit Sherman’s Amusement Park on Caroga Lake, NY

• The Carousels of Palisades Park, Mullers and PTCs

• Palisades Park History; New Jersey’s Lost Amusement Park

• Lost Carousels: Belmont Park Looff, San Diego

• C. W. Parker and Sauer in Abilene

• Al Kruger Miniatures feature

• Cincinnati Circus Poster Exhibit

• Carousel Artist: Tom Forcey

COVER: Ed Roth designed carvings, a Seahorse with mermaid and the Seadragon companion, the two pieces pictured are in the John and Cathy Daniel Collection

CONTENTS:

• From Dan’s Desk: Hope for Forest Park?, Seeking info on Slater Park

• Freeman’s Pier Carousel Memories

• Notes from Marianne: A Young Girl Who Loved Horses

• Riding with the Rabbit: Carousels in Springtime

• Adirondack Carousel, NY, Features Unique Menagerie

• Kingsport Carousel, Tennessee Community Carving Away

• The Brass Ring Carousel in Albany, OR - Behind the Volunteer Carvers

• Carousel Works’ Pier 62 and Calgary Carousels Enter Second Season

• So. Maryland Carousel Group Completes 38 Figures

• Berkshire Carousel, Pittsfield, MA, Carving Empowers Community

• Carousel for Pottstown, PA, 50th and Final Figure Completed

CAROUSEL CARVERS:

• Ed Roth

• John Panozzo

• Steve Beauvais

• Norman Jirik

• Joe Vesce

• Levi Yerian

• Jack Alberti

COVER: A beautifully flowered and ornamented stander from the 1915 Mangels-Carmel carousel at Rye Playland, with three chariots and the incredibly complex trappings, many think the carousel was special ordered, but by who?, John Caruso photo

CONTENTS:

• From Dan’s Desk: A Frame for The Kingsport Carousel; Coeur d’Alene, ID, gets Spillman Carousel Back

• Notes from Marianne; Special Figures at Heritage Museum

• Heritage Museum & Gardens Carousel Exhibit in Sandwich, MA

• 72nd Annual Flower Mart Features 1890s US Merry-Go-Round in May

• Cover Feature: Rye Playland, NY - One of America’s Iconic Parks for over 100 Years, Historic Carmel Carousel and Racing Derby

• MGR Museum in Sandusky, OH, Summer Carving Classes

• Paragon in Hull, MA, Carousel Seeks Funding

• 2011 Buyers Guide Listings

COVER: This Stein & Goldstein horse, on loan from the Dinger Collection, is part of a special exhibit at Heritage Gardens in Sandwich, MA, photo courtesy of the Heritage Museum & Gardens

CONTENTS:

• From Dan’s Desk; Belgium Orgel Museum, the Zippin Pippin, Semaphore Carousel in Australia

• Notes from Marianne; Revere Beach armored Stein & Goldstein rescued from the Attic

• Riding with the Rabbit; The Rocking-Grasshopper Mechanisms

• HISTORIC CAROUSEL BIOGRAPHY: Remembering William Nunley; His Carousels and Parks

• Long Lost Carousel Photos: Nunley’s Happyland Dentzel

• Stein & Goldstein Artistic Manuf. Co. brief History

• Trump Takes Over Central Park Carousel Operations

• Feature: Bushkill Park in PA and the Lost Long Family Carousel History

• Carousel “Golden Age Carvers” Exhibit in Sandwich, MA

• Tokens as Cash and Souvenirs

• Book Review: “Flying Horses: The Golden Age of American Carousels”

• Successful Year for Silver Beach, MI Carousel

New York City’s Fine Antique Carousels:

• Central Park, 1908 Stein & Goldstein

• Forest Park 1910 D. C. Muller

• Flushing Meadows, 1903-08 Mangels-Illions

• Prospect Park, 1914-18 Mangels-Carmel

• Jane’s Carousel, 1922 PTC #61

• Coney Island, Ca. 1910 Mangels-Carmel (Illions Lincoln Horse)

• Bryant Park, Willowbrook Park, Bronx Zoo and Pier 62 carousels

COVER: This small armored Spillman takes a third-row position on the Griffith Park Carousel, Rock Hopkins photo

CONTENTS:

• From Dan’s Desk: Playland, Bay Beach, PTC #18, Belmont Park

• Notes from Marianne: Rare E. Joy Morris leaping carousel tiger

• Riding with the Rabbit: Mixed carvers on antique machines

• The Rest of the Story: Gray Tuttle Happyland Dentzel additions and corrections

• Long Lost Carousels Photos: Sherman’s Lake Caroga Park, NY Early Looff carousel 

• San Diego Carousel History: 12 historic machines in 115 years; Seaport Village, Belmont Park, Balboa Park, Bluffs, Wonderland, Mission Beach, Parkland, Marshall Scotty’s Playland

• NCA Tech Conference to Pasadena visits Griffith Park Spillman; PTC #62 at Santa Monica Pier; The Summits Collection; LA Arboretum organ rally

• CNT Carousel Professional Profile: Lourinda Bray, Running Horse Studio

• Running Horse Studio Open House in Irwindale, CA

• Invitation to Perron’s Carousel Collection, Hood River, OR

• CMMA, Carousel Miniature Builders, Heading to Tuscora Park, OH

• Carousel of Happiness in Nederland Celebrates 1st Year

• Carousel News Briefs: Caruso at Brooklyn Museum; Jane’s Carousel Building Rising

• Spieth & Satow Join Norton Auctioneers

• Bushkill and Long carousel story corrections

COVER: Most recently known as the Geauga Lake Carousel, now the Worlds of Fun Carousel in Kansas City, Kate Blakley photo

CONTENTS:

• From Dan’s Desk: Don and Ruth Snider, Joplin Tornado hits Merry-Go-Art

• Notes from Marianne: City of Boston’s Carousel Blunder

• Riding with the Rabbit: Visiting Vacant Carousel Buildings in the Northeast

• Steam Carousel’s Annual Spins: Six track machines in 5 states

• Armitage Herschell Genealogy; Tracing Carousel Roots

• M. C. Illions Legendary Carver: Brief Biography

• Center Feature: Geauga Illions 4-Row “Sesqui” Carousel to Worlds of Fun Amusement Park in Kansas City

• The Billboard Archives - 1949 Profile on Showman, Harry Illions, (eldest son of Marcus Illions)

• Celoron Amusement Park History (Western New York)

• Ca. 1915 Illions Pony Goes Full Circle, by Leah Farnsworth

• Early 20th Century Carousel News Bits from The Brooklyn Eagle Archives

• Carousel Carver: Ed Hepp, Rocking Horses and Reproductions

COVER: Connecticut has two Murphy carousels; the 1893 Carmel/Looff/S&G machine at Lake Compounce, and the 1911 Carmel/Looff at Lighthouse Point shown here, Roland Hopkins photo

CONTENTS:

• From Dan’s Desk: Solar Carousel in Boston; Martha’s Vineyard; Bud Ellis and Kingsport, TN

• Paragon Carousel Gala Fundraiser Planned in Hull

• Carrousels at Fresno Exhibit; Freels figures and Fraley knowledge

• Annual Perkasie BBQ at Menlo Park Carousel

SPECIAL FEATURE: The Murphy Brothers and Their Carousels

• Family History/Nunley Partnership

• New England Carousels

• NY Parks and Carousels

• Nunley/Murphy Carousels

• Louisiana Carousels

• Murphy's Carmel Lions

• Murphy Carousel Summary Chart

• Carousel Rim Comparisons

• Conclusions and Questions

COVER: Two jumpers aboard the 1911 C.W. Parker #53 carousel in Waterloo, WI, the tags on each horse announce the sponsor, the historic ride and building just made a move up the hill out of flood danger, Leah Farnsworth photo

CONTENTS:

• From Dan’s Desk; Santa Cruz and Tilden Park Carousel’s 100th Year Celebrations

• Riding With the Rabbit - Animated Carousel Riders

• Marchal Collection Fairground and Carousel Art Auction in France

• Charles Dare Returns to Gillett, WI, For Ice Cream Social

• Cover Feature: Waterloo Parker Building and Carousel Rise for 100th Celebration

• Lisa Parr: Restoring The Waterloo C. W. Parker #53, Again

• HISTORIC FEATURE: Finding PTC #16; Tracing A Carousel’s Demise, by Marianne Stevens and Barbara Williams

• Carousel West at Asilomar For More Than 30 Years

• Book Review: “The Galloping Horses of Willowbrook”

COVER: The Wurlitzer 146B from the Dentzel menagerie carousel at Norumbega Park outside of Boston, photo courtesy of Rob Goodale

CONTENTS:

• From Dan’s Desk: Six Flags New Orleans’ Future; Jun Carvell Passing; St. George Utah carousel, Jane’s opens, Balboa Fun Zone closes, 100 Years and 25 million riders for Tilden Park

• Riding With the Rabbit - Amusement Park Memories

• Knobels Grove and Hersheypark Floods Rise Above Severe Floods

• Milhous Mechanical Music, Antique Car Collection to Auction

• Remembering Norumbega Amusement Park in Auburndale, Mass.

• Cover Feature: Norumbega’s Wurlitzer 146B Carousel Band Organ Restoration, but Rob Goodale

• Rosa Patton’s Latest Wurlitzer 165 Facade Restoration

• Center Photo - Glen Echo Carousel 165 Band Organ

• The Galleries at Moore Hosts Walentas Tribute Exhibit

• The Big Wurlitzer’s: Band Organs Larger than the 165s

• Facade Carved For Seabreeze’s Verbeek - 165 Band Organ

• In Memoriam: Norma Menghettti

COVER: Jane’s Carousel, PTC 61, Brooklyn, NY, Roland Hopkins photo

CONTENTS:

• From Dan’s Desk: IAAPA and Auctions - Fall 2011

• Rabbit - NYC adds Carousels

• Letters: Seeking Myrtle Looff Info

• Marchal Collection Carousel and Fairground Art Auction in France a Huge Success

• Forest Park Muller Looks to 2012 in Queens, NY

• Cover Feature: Jane’s Carousel, PTC #61, Celebrates Grand Opening in Brooklyn, NY

• Letters: Seeking Bushnell Stein & Goldstein History

• Frame Masters for Gold Leaf and more.

• Rare Limonaire Organ in Morristown, NJ Exhibit

• Katiland Park and Trains Building Dreams in Temecula, CA

• Carousels and Holiday Lights From Sandwich, MA to Tilden Park, CA

• Poligon Building Protection for Carousels

COVER: Two chariot horses on PTC #51 at Elitch Gardens in Denver, CO, much like its relatives, PTC #84, #85 and others, the chariot and and its team represent some of the finest carving on the machine, Vickie Stauffer photo

CONTENTS:

• Letters to the Editor: Note to Jane Walentas

• From Dan’s Desk: Remembering John Daniel

• Notes From Marianne: Muller Lion

• Riding with the Rabbit: Christmas and Carousels

• Revisting E. Joy Morris and Firehouse Antiques, by Rol Summit

• Rare Figures: Only 2 Herschell Armored Jumpers

• Norumbega Organ Update

• Santina Amato Aussie Exhibit

• In Memoriam: Sam H. High, III PTC Past President

• Cover Feature: NCA 2011 Convention “Hoofbeats” through the Colorado Rockies and 7 historic carousels:

• Pueblo Parker

• Cheyenne Zoo Allan Herschell

• Denver Zoo C. W. Parker

• Elitch Gardens PTC #51

• Kit Carson PTC #6

• Carousel of Happiness

• Lakeside Parker/Mix