The Carousel News & Trader 2012

COVER: A row of jumpers on the 1914 Mangels-Illions Grand Carousel at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio, at the zoo since 2000, the carousel has always operated in Ohio, not far from its current location, Kurri Lewis photo

CONTENTS:

• Scenes From IAAPA Expo 2011

• From Dan’s Desk: Surviving Holidays

• Letters to the Editor: On Gray Tuttle’s Myrtle Beach Looff inquiry, Central Park Carmel

• Notes From Marianne: John Daniel Memories - “Horse!”

• Riding with the Rabbit: Beardsley Zoo Carousel Past and Present

• Bonhams Los Angeles Carousel and Circus Collectible Art Auction

• Chavis Park 3 Row Allan Herschell Restoration Next

• Raleigh’s Pullen Park Renovations and Restored Dentzel Carousel Re-Opening

• Cover Feature: Columbus Zoo Mangels-Illions Grand Carousel

• NYC Issues RFP for Flushing and Forest Park Carousels

• NCA Convention Follow-Up: Thanks Jo and Norma

• New York City Carousel Holiday Window Displays

• Cafesjian Rare Carousel Figure Collection in Holiday Exhibit

COVER: The Semaphore Beach Carousel in South Australia, built by Len Northey, ca. 1927, carries the last known set of Robert Bartlett Co. horses on an operating carousel, photo courtesy of aussiejapan.blogspot.com

CONTENTS:

• From Dan’s Desk; Tri-City Carousel seeks a home, Baltimore Carousel seeks to keep home

• Carousel Calendar - Milhous Auction

• Long Lost Carousels: Unique Machine at Shadey Grove, Uniontown, PA

• Long Lost Carousels: Rare PTC #9 Photos

• Lighthouse Point New Haven, CT, Murphy Carmel-Looff Carousel Turns 100

• Cover Feature: Future Still Uncertain for Australia’s Semaphore Beach Carousel

• Historical Feature: The Original PTC Factory Building Today

• Bavarian Village Carousel Visit Carousel and Amusement Park Book, Video, DVD Reviews

• A Carousel for Missoula Documentary

• Images of America: Seattle’s Luna Park

• Remembering Playland At The Beach

COVER: Tim Racer started carving carousel dogs eight years ago, carving his own, Sally, here we have Joshua and Petal, the beautiful paint work is thanks to Pam Hessey, Laura Moss photo

CONTENTS:

• From Dan’s Desk; Walt Loucks’ passing, Milhous Auction Huge Success

• Norumbega Park gets Facebook Page

• Jane’s Carousel Pavilion Gets 2012 “Best Public Space” Award

• Riding with the Rabbit; building an archive

• So. Maryland Carousel Group Salute Veterans

• Kingsport, TN, Carousel Carvers into 2nd Full Year

• Albany, OR, Brass Ring Carousel Carving Figures to Life

CARVERS:

• Tim Racer

• John Panozzo

• Susie Jensen

• Silver Beach Bear

• Rick Croely

• Hal Eckstein

• Ron Berge

• Missoula Carousel Carvers

• Ken Means Carving Camp

COVER: Armored stander at the D. C. Muller & Bro. shop ca. 1914, from his strong, but simple Civil War standers to the elaborate armored, feathered or flowered ponies, Muller was master of the Military horse, as well as a lifelike horse, Fraley/CNT Archive Photo - Courtesy of Alison Johnson

CONTENTS:

• From Dan’s Desk: Max Nowicki “The Organ Man” passing; Jazzland; Carousel Bar, New Orleans; Eldridge Park Upgrades

• Milhous Collection Auction in Florida a Huge Success (results)

• Riding with the Rabbit: On Trolleys, Busses and Trains to Ride the Ride

• Gray Tuttle’s Carousel Rarities: Six Known Carousel Kangaroos

• Long Lost Carousels: More Rare PTC #9 Photos

• Cover Feature: Cedar Point Midway Muller carousel turns 100

• D. C. Muller & Bro. History

• Merry-Go-Round Museum 2012 “Grab the Brass Ring” Exhibit Feature

• Meet the Berkshire Carousel Volunteer Carvers & Artists

• CMMA - Carousel Modelers and Miniatures Assoc. 2011 Convention at Tuscora Park

• In Memoriam - Max Nowicki “Organ Man”

• 2012 Buyers Guide Listings

COVER: The Flying Horses 1876 Dare on Martha's Vineyard is the oldest platform carousel in the USA, and it even has two ring machines, Roland Hopkins photo

CONTENTS:

• From Dan’s Desk - Selling Your Collections

• Portland’s Jantzen Beach Parker Superior carousel - Last Ride?

• Letter to the Editor: Carousel Kangaroo Notes

• TRIBUTE: Remembering Walter Loucks, CNT Publisher, 1985-2005

• Notes from Marianne - Feature: Unique and Mysterious PTC #13 carousel

• Unraveling PTC #13 Mysteries by Barbara Williams

• Long Lost Carousel Photos: PTC #13

• Cover Feature: 1876 Dare Flying Horses - 128 Years in Oak Bluffs, on Martha’s Vineyard Island

• Don and Ruth Sinder’s Merry-Go-Art Post-Tornado Sale

• Carver: Jim Haessly

• The Monkees Last Ride on Belmont Looff in San Diego

COVER: With a number of beautiful Carmel horses, patriot and armored, to choose from for the cover, we were told this horse is most identified with Knoebels Groves, Rock Hopkins photo

CONTENTS:

• From Dan’s Desk: Memorial Day Weekend, Forest Park Muller reopens

• Gray Tuttle PTC Wolf corrrections

• Coney Island History Project Open House

• Riding With the Rabbit: Derby Racers and Steeplechase; They Don’t Make The Like That Anymore

• Corrective Surgery for the Iconic Illions Flame Maned “Pacer”, by Rol Summit

• Cover Feature: Rare Carousels, Band Organs and Museum at Iconic Knoebels Grove Amusement Park

• Barney Illions Black & White Berkshires Art Sale

• Feature: Gerry’s Tribute to late husband, Tom Layton, carousel artist, restorer

• Adirondack Carousel Takes Shape in upstate New York

• Book Review: The History of PTC Carousels

COVER: The 100-year-old Burnaby Carousel in motion, photo by Bruce Irschick

CONTENTS:

• From Dan’s Desk: NEW Carousel Locator Map App!

• John Caruso’s Visit to the Reopened Forest Park D. C. Muller Carousel

• Riding With the Rabbit - Visit to the Perrons and PTC #15

• The Sultan’s Merry-Go-Round

• Annual Spin for Historic Steam Machines

• A Trip to Bickleton, WA, Rodeo and Picnic

• New England Carousel Museum New Carousel in Place

• Jantzen Beach’s Precious Superior Parker Future Uncertain

• Cover Feature: C. W. Parker Carousel #119 Turns 100 at Burnaby Museum in Canada

• Michigan’s Crossroads Village C. W. Parker Centennial Celebration

• The C. W. Parker Museum Looks at the Mechanism Mystery

• Restoring Two Baby Parker Ponies to Original Paint

• CMMI 2012 Miniatures Convention Joins Crossroads Celebration

COVER: Included in the Murphy Brothers follow-up is the discovery of a prancer inscribed with “T. Murphy & Co. The First Horse…”, these two and other horses on the Slater Park Carousel in RI share noticeable traits with that T. Murphy horse, Rock Hopkins photo

CONTENTS:

• HISTORIC FEATURE: The Murphy Bros II: New Discoveries and Further Insights, by William Benjamin, Ph.D., and Barbara Williams

• From Dan’s Desk: Wonderland Canada’s #1 Park

• New Horse Tails for Griffith Park carousel; Guest Shot on TV Show “House”

• UCONN Husky on Bushnell Park Stein & Goldstein Carousel

• 25th Burlington, NC, Dentzel Carousel Festival

• A Look Back at Riverview Beach Park, NJ, and its carousels - from man power in 1889 to Dentzel in 1925

• 2012 Carousel West Gathering at Asilomar, Monterey, CA

• Larry Pefferly - A New Carousel Horse Carving

• Correction: PTC #12 and #13 Hounds

• In Memoriam: Al Cramer

COVER: One of 24 beautiful standers of the 66 total horses occupying the 4-row, PTC #47 at Hersheypark in PA, the artistically carved horses on the 1919 carousel are attributed to master-carver, John Zalar, Rock Hopkins photo

CONTENTS:

• From Dan’s Desk; Losing a friend, Dave Norton; Santa Monica Pier; Iowa Parks tops

• Notes From Marianne: The “Green Horse” from Bayville Park from Lee Jacoby

• New Picture of PTC #16 at Joyland Park in Topeka, KS

• In Memoriam: David Norton - 1949-2012

• Riding With The Rabbit Back to Wildwood and the Long Lost Yankee Doodle Stein & Goldstein at The Sportland Pier

• Cover Feature: Rich History at Hersheypark, PA, and the 4-Row 1919 PTC #47 carousel

• Special Feature: Hawaii’s “Aloha Carousel” Project Underway

• Adirondack Carousel Opens in Upstate New York

• Look Back at Euclid Beach;s PTC #19 at Old Orchard Beach

• In Memoriam - Master Carver, teacher, character, Welba “W.P.” Wilcox; 1929-2012

COVER: The new facade for Glenn Thomas Wurlitzer 165/166 created by the team of Bob Yorburg, carver, Marguerite Chadwick-Juner, illustrator and Pam Hessey, painter, Glenn Thomas photo

CONTENTS:

• From Dan’s Desk: Passing of Marianne Stevens, Richard Rigg...

• The Last “Notes From Marianne” by Roland Hopkins

• In Fond Remembrance of Marianne Stevens, from dear friends Rol and Jo Summit

• Riding with the Rabbit: Vestal Press

• A Room Full of Organs by William Edgerton

• In Memoriam: Dick Bowker

• The Wurlitzer 165/166 and its Music by Glenn Thomas

• Carving a Band Organ FaCade, by Bob Yorburg

• Quassy Amusement Park 2012 COAA Organ Rally

• 32nd Annual Phonograph Show at Donley’s Wild West Town outside Chicago

COVER: This Dentzel “with bells on” is known as ‘Jingles’ or the Mary Poppins horse, it was also chosen as the 50th anniversary horse on Disneyland’s King Arthur Carrousel, Eric Pahlke photo

CONTENTS:

• Disneyland’s King Arthur Carrousel from a 1922 Dentzel

• From Dan’s Desk; From Geelongs in Australia to Zombies in Detroit

• Bonham’s Carousel Figure Auction in Los Angeles

• RM’s “Car of Dreams” Auction includes carousel

• MSU Carousel Seeks New Home

• Norton’s For 40 Years; Record Breaking Prices

• Hurricane Sandy: First Report

• Norton’s Amusement Park, Carousel Auction Timeline

• Senior Trip to Tilden Merry-Go-Round

• Speelklock Music Museum in the Netherlands

COVER: Marianne Stevens, carousel lover, historian, founding member of the NCA and ACS, co-author of Painted Ponies, and so much more, captured here in her home workshop, Bill Manns photo

CONTENTS:

• From Dan’s Desk: IAAPA 2012

• Riding With the Rabbit: Carousel Toys From the Past

• Jane’s Carousel Reopens after Hurricane Sandy

• Good Things for Semaphore Beach in 2013

• Semaphore Beach and Australia’s Other Antique Carousel Treasures Include

• PTC #30 and Many More

• Friends and Readers Pay Tribute to Marianne Stevens

• CN&T Through the Years

• Book Review: “Where Horses Fly”

• 1,000s of Summit Carousel Ornaments to Sandusky

• Lake Compounce Adds Holiday Lights

• Ken Means Carousel and Carving Exhibit