"Unless something is done [the carousel] will turn the minds of people here, and no one would be surprised if in a few days, whole families… were chartering the machine for hours at a time." ...

One of my favorite pastimes as a kid was going to carnivals and amusement parks. Heck, I still love doing that. Don’t get me wrong, I certainly enjoy the perks of being an adult, but I’ve found that ...

PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WJAR) — The Slater Memorial Park Looff Carousel is offering free rides on Tuesday to celebrate Merry-go-round Day. Park officials said carousel rides will be free from 11 a.m. to 8 ...

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National Carousel Day, also known as National Merry-Go-Round Day, is observed on Sunday. It has been observed annually on July 25 since 2014. The day recognizes the amusement ride associated with ...

You'll have to wait just a bit longer to take a ride on Seaside Heights' iconic carousel. Most of the historic merry-go-round is in Ohio, where it's being restored by Carousels & Carvings, a company ...

While the carousel opened at The Children's Museum in 1976, its animals have lived in Indianapolis for a lot longer. The horses, giraffes, goats and other wooden creatures came to Indianapolis in 1917 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SANDUSKY, Ohio (WJW) – Heading west on Route ...

The Richland Carousel Park has been in downtown Mansfield since 1991. The business that hand-carved the figurines has shut down. The heart of Mansfield, in north-central Ohio, isn’t a city hall or a ...

For nearly half a century, a nondescript factory at the corner of Thompson and Vandervoort streets bustled with an unusual activity. The Allan Herschell Co. turned out more than 3,000 hand-crafted ...

Alas for that endangered species: the wooden carousel horse. Once, they galloped by the hundreds on the Jersey shore. Then, they seemed to go extinct. Only to turn up suddenly, miraculously — like ...