Trivially Speaking: Circling the history of the merry-go-round
One of the treats of kids of our vintage was riding on a merry-go-round if you could find a dime during a county fair or a carnival coming to town.
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One of the treats of kids of our vintage was riding on a merry-go-round if you could find a dime during a county fair or a carnival coming to town.
The carved wooden carousel animals date back to 1895.
The Flying Horses Carousel in Oak Bluffs, the nation’s oldest platform carousel, is receiving restoration work to prepare for the next cavalry of summer riders it serves. According to the Vineyard Preservation Trust, which owns the Flying Horses, the carousel was constructed by Charles Dare of New York Carousel Manufacturing in 1876 and originally operated […]