Where people come to see 'em

My mathematics blog is still out there, somewhere. So is my humor blog, which just answered Why is everyone mad at _Funky Winkerbean_ this week? and see if you can spot the joke I put in specifically for bunny_hugger. Anyway, here's Merry-Go-Round Museum pictures:

Looking inside the ear of the pig, Wilbur, so as to see the spider painted in there. This might be the best picture I've ever taken of Charlotte.

I thought this was more in focus when I took the picture! But on top of the New Halloween Roll, the one we always hear when we visit in October. Its songs: Ghostbusters Theme; The Purple People Eater; Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead; Dem Dry Bones; the theme to The Addams Family; the Funeral March of a Marionette (the Alfred Hitchcock Presents theme); and from there I lose it. Sorry. I think one of them is the Skeleton Rag and the last the Dance of the Demons?

The family of sea dragons seen from the inside of the carousel.

And here's a view from between the adult sea dragons, because I wanted to record the patterns on the backs of their saddles. Note the one on the left has a saddle held up by small ... dolphins? Fish? Something.

And now I'm getting out of the carousel even though it's not like there's a particular reason to rush. You can see the bunny on the right there.

And one of the chariots, showing off the classic traditional carousel themes of lions, harps, and nekkid ladies.

Ostrich on their carousel, a figure I'm not sure we've ever ridden.

And here's a look of the whole carousel and the entrance gate for the ride.

The carousel horse-shaped chair used at the Wanamaker's department store's barber shop in Philadelphia. I keep forgetting to ask my father if he ever went there; it'd be unlikely (he was on the wrong side of New Jersey for that) but not impossible.

A circa 1910 Charles Carmel outer row horse (you can see by how it's standing rather than jumping) in the outer room of the museum.

And here's the horse in slightly more context, with another outer-row horse being ridden by a skeleton.

Ah, so, that door from W H Dentzel Carrousells [sic]? Above it they also have a sign for G A Dentzel's Caroussell [sic] building. I didn't notice any special mention made of the G A Dentzel 155th anniversary.

Trivia: During their second moonwalk the Apollo 17 crew deployed three explosive packages, to support the lunar seismic profiling experiment. Source: Apollo By The Numbers, Richard W Orloff. NASA SP-4029.

Currently Reading: King of All Balloons: The Adventurous Life of James Sadler, the First English Aeronaut, Mark Davies.