The Tilden Park Merry Go Round!

HISTORY

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Antique Carousel. Photography by Diana Kwasnicki

Manufactured by the Herschell Spillman Company, North Tonawanda, New York
Built in 1911, 3 row machine with menagerie animals
2nd permanent machine built by Herschell Spillman for Oliver Davis, Redlands CA.
First installed in Urbita Springs, an amusement park built by the Pacific Electric Railway along its trolley line between San Bernardino and Corona, CA
1916 Merry Go Round moved to Wonderland Park, Ocean Beach, San Diego
Sold in 1928 and moved to somewhere near Long Beach, CA
1935 Oliver Davis reacquires the machine and runs it in Griffith Park, Los Angeles
1937 Merry Go Round was dismantled and placed in storage
1939 used in the Universal Studios film "So Ends Our Night"
1948 Ross Davis and his son John moved it to TILDEN REGIONAL PARK

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Antique Carousel, Photography by Diana Kwasnicki

Explore inside the Domed carousel building, the history wall, historic machine & motor, 22 hand carved wood horses & 17 figures, 2 chariots, 17 aluminum horses, small Wurlitzer music organ player & North Tonawanda 950 organ , studio, cafe & gift shop.