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http://auburnpub.com/lifestyles/whatever-happened-to-the-emerson-park-merry-go-round/article_de63e8ef-9fbe-56b8-9f85-aa63ccf694db.html
Friday, April 5, 2013
Owasco Lake's Carousel
There is a nice article in today's Auburn Citizen about the merry-go-round that used to reside in Enna Jettick Park (now Emerson Park) at the foot of Owasco Lake. The carousel was in use from 1929 to 1944, when it was sold and moved to Hershey Park, Pennsylvania. Lakeside Park was a very popular park in the 30's and 40's and many area residents have fond memories of the park and carousel.
(Photo from rootsweb.ancestry.com)
Read the entire story at:
http://auburnpub.com/lifestyles/whatever-happened-to-the-emerson-park-merry-go-round/article_de63e8ef-9fbe-56b8-9f85-aa63ccf694db.html
Read the entire story at:
http://auburnpub.com/lifestyles/whatever-happened-to-the-emerson-park-merry-go-round/article_de63e8ef-9fbe-56b8-9f85-aa63ccf694db.html
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4 comments:
The timeline can't be right. I rode the carousel and I wasn't born until the 50's. If that carousel had frog statues on it as well as the horses, then it was the one I remembered.
I agree. my mom said her high school graduation was there in 1957, and I rode it in the early 70's!
No kidding. Get the facts correct. I rode the "Mary Go Round" as a kid from the fifties to the sixties. It's a shame it isn't there any more. So many attractions destroyed in Auburn.
There were several carousels at Emerson Park which also had many names. In 1899 it was Island Park.ln 1891 it was Lakeside Park. In 1895 the Auburn & Syracuse railroad designed a 40 acre park located in the boundaries of the 130 acre Emerson Park. In 1900, first carousel was a Charles I. d. Looff . This was replaced in 1908 by another Charles Looff carousel. In 1930 the park was named Enna Jennick
Park. In 1929, PTC #47 carousel was installed there. It operated until 1944. It then went to Hershey Park. It had come from Liberty Heights Park, Baltimore, Maryland.
In 1944 the park was renamed Emerson Park. A Herschell-Spillman menagerie park carousel was installed from 1946 to 1972. It had come from Algonac Island Park, Michigan, circa 1915 carousel.. It was sold to Friends of the Long Island Heritage. It was broken up and auctioned in 1980 .
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