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The Tilden Park Merry Go Round!
HISTORY
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- 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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- 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.