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Amusement parks today tend to be the oversized sort with something for everyone. A hundred years ago they were often small, intimate affairs that were located at the beginning or end of a trolley line ...

Q-When pricing an old carousel horse, what are the important things to look for? Does it matter if the horse went up and down or just stood in place as the carousel turned? Is condition important?

Over the Memorial Day weekend a fundraiser was hosted at the W.E. “Bill” Mason Carousel in Oak Meadow Park. The 32-horse ride is starting to show its age and a devoted fan’s suggestion sparked the ...

Q. Enclosed is a photo of a wooden carousel horse. I was told it is circa 1902 and made by Herschell, but I have not been able to verify this information. Could you please provide its history and ...

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 ...

When Robert Timke bought an old wooden carousel horse 18 years ago, he had no idea what salvation the hand-carved beast would bring him in later years. Timke stored the horse — built in 1879 by famed ...

They used to carry us on their backs. Imagining ourselves as knights or cowgirls, we would straddle their broad carved saddles and pretend to pursue each other, as the band organ pumped out the ...

People sometimes ask Bill Schneider what he's going to do with the full-size wooden carousel horse he carved by hand last summer. "That wasn't the point," said Schneider, a retired NASA engineer. "I ...

PITTSFIELD — The unnamed carousel horse was on its death bed upon arrival at the Berkshire Carousel workshop. The wooden equine was in 20 pieces and missing part of a rear leg. "He was a mess. He didn ...

The other day, Linda Allen had the relieved look of someone whose true love was getting sprung out of jail. "I might get emotional talking about this," she said outside a row of storage units in a ...