Their house is a museum
And now ... well, there's not a lot going on, so please enjoy a bunch of pictures from the Merry-Go-Round Museum. Thanks.
Another antique hippocampus, this one from Charles Carmel and dated to 1905. Note the glass jewels embedded in the wings there; I don't know how many if any of them are original or from the figure's working life.
That second hippocampus seen from in front, so you can see the heads they carved for their own carousel aren't far off the historical truth.
Speaking of historical truth, the United Kingdom had a fad for carving carousel centaurs with the faces of Boer War generals for some reason. Here's the figure ``Any Given British General of the Boer War''.
Three-quarter view of the Boer War Centaur figure. There's not many carousel centaurs out there and I don't know if there's a clear reason these should be the handful of exceptions.
Obviously these were carved in a burst of patriotic fervor, although not enough patriotic fervor to paint the Union Jack with the correct number of lines.
The brilliantly painted ostrich-y figure is a common figure for British carousels and I don't know why it didn't catch on among American carvers.
Here's a good look at the ostrich's head and maybe a decent profile picture if someone needs one.
The museum's moved its chart of the major parts of a carousel to a spot behind its demonstration band organ, the one with the mechanism you can partially see in operation.
``Don't talk to me or my my ever again.'' Outside the gift shop's another of the Carousel Stamp horses. Also a plaque from the brass-ring game at some park they haven't identified to us ( so far as I'm aware).
Going in for our ride on the antique-mechanism, modern-horses carousel. Here's a small horse set inside the ring, in front of the box of music scrolls.
I don't know what that horse is used to demonstrate but it's clearly meant for something. Anyway here's also a view of band organ scrolls that the museum has, all but two of which we've never heard.
Looking from the inside of the carousel out; notice the Frog Prince in the dead center of the picture.
Trivia: The Apollo 17 astronauts unloaded the Lunar Roving Vehicle, did a test drive, gathered samples, and did panoramic photography before deploying the flag at the Taurus-Litrow Valley. Source: Apollo By The Numbers, Richard W Orloff. NASA SP-4029.
Currently Reading: Peanuts Dell Archive, Charles M Schulz.