Hours at the Bushnell Park Carousel
The Bushnell Park Carousel opens to the public for the 2005 season on Saturday, April 30, 2005.  The Carousel is open Tuesdays through Sundays, from 11 A.M. to 5 P.M.  The Bushnell Park Carousel will remain open this year through October, 2005.  A wine and finger-food opening season reception will be held for Members of the Bushnell Park Carousel and New England Carousel Museum on Friday, April 29, from 5:30 to 7:30 P.M.  Please R.S.V.P. by April 21, 2005 if you would like to join us for this evening of fun.

The carousel, c. 1914, was created by Solomon Stein and Harry Goldstein, owners of the Artistic Carousel Company of Brooklyn, New York. In 1974 the Knox Foundation rescued the carousel from the Meyers Lake Amusement Park in Canton, Ohio and brought it to Hartford to help with the revitalization of the downtown. Before being brought to Canton, Ohio, the carousel was operational in Albany, New York from 1914 to 1940. 

The merry-go-round is a gorgeous three-row park machine with 36 jumper horses, 12 stander horses, 2 chariots and a Wurlitzer 153 band organ. 

Stein and Goldstein animals are beautiful, large, wide-eyed horses whose ears are often pinned back and nostrils flared. Sometimes their tongues even hang out like real animals. These magnificent creations are decorated with large buckles, roses or fish scale patterning on the trappings.

You too can share in the responsibility of caring for these colorful characters by joining the Bushnell Park Carousel Membership. This includes sharing in the fun. 

Open:
Early May to Mid-October
Tuesday through Sunday
From 11am to 5 pm
50 cents per ride
Street Parking.
Closed during severe weather.

 

The
New England Carousel Museum
95 Riverside Avenue, Rt. 72
Bristol, Connecticut 06010

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