Of horse's bodies by installing electric lighting within. In 1894 Feltman attempted to illuminate the outer row Was installed in a cupolaed four-tiered octagonal building adjacent to

Type - Horses Stationary - Menagerie machineĬharles Looff built a larger carousel for Feltman's Pavilion and it.

Location - Surf Avenue adjacent to Feltman's Pavilion.

This carousel was sold in 1884 and was moved to Martha's Vineyard.

Builder / Carver - New York Carosal Manufacturing / Charles Dare.

Location - Coney Island - location unknown.

Type - Horses stationary - Menagerie machineĬoney Island's first carousel was built for William Vanderveer who.

Location - Balmer's Bathing Pavilion - foot of Ocean Parkway.

Therefore my list of only 25 carousels leaves numerous missing carousels for researchers to unearth. A 1938 article in Fortune magazine says that 13 carousels were in operation that year.

He estimated that at an average cost of $5000 per, that there were at least 15 in operation that year.

Many are missing! For example the city of Gravesend licensed 14 carousels in 1885, and Weinstein in his doctoral thesis stated that by 1899 between $75,000 and $100,000 had been invested in carousels at Coney. The following list of carousels covers just the more noted, and of course, documented carousels of Coney Island. Coney - Carousel List Coney Island - Historic Carousel List The material is copyrighted © 1998 by Jeffrey Stanton.

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