Скачать или смотреть Carousel and Wurlitzer 153 band organ at Hersheypark

Hershey’s final carrousel was purchased in 1944. That year Hershey Park purchased a even larger carrousel, PTC #47, from the Philadelphia Toboggan Company. The Park had not added a ride since the start of World War II. Buying a used carrousel from the Philadelphia Toboggan Company was the only way it could get something “new.”

To make room for the new carrousel, the Dentzel carrousel was dismantled and sold to an amusement park in Ohio. Later Hershey’s Dentzel carrousel was sold to Knott’s Berry Farm in California.

Hershey’s “new” carrousel had been manufactured in 1919. Since it had been built right after World War I, the carrousel was decorated with images of Miss Liberty and American flags on the outer rim. Originally it had been built for the Liberty Heights Park in Baltimore, Maryland. Ten years later, in 1929, it was moved to Enna Jettick Park in Auburn, New York. During the war Jettick Park closed and the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, which owned the carrousel, needed to find a new place to operate it.

Hershey’s new carrousel was impressive. The PTC #47 had an outside row of stationary horses and three inner rows of jumpers (there were a few small stationary horses on the inside beside the chariots) featuring a total of 66 horses. The carved horses were elaborately designed. There were prancing hunters and carnival horses, as well as cavalry, cowboy, rodeo, and circus horses. The carrousel ceiling was also elaborately painted with decorative butterflies, birds, and flowers.

The outside rim of the new carrousel was magnificent. While the Dentzel machine had a few small painted panels on its rim, the new one featured a repeated carved panel of two views of Miss Liberty, separated by a decorative mirrored shield. Carved and gilded American eagles were a frequently repeated motif. A dozen folk art paintings covered inside core panels of the carrousel: a Dutch seaside scene, a mother and child at a brook, a cow and its calf in a meadow, the feeding of ducks, a man riding with his ladylove on a white horse, children and dogs on a seesaw, mother and children leaving home for a walk, a Bavarian home and family with rabbits playing about, a Spanish bullfight, and sisters feeding geese. Carrousel music was provided by a Wurlitzer model 153 military band organ. The songs are “Ave Maria” and “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” from Roll 13409 Arranged by David Stumpf.