SANTA CRUZ — For nearly 100 years, the Looff Carousel, more commonly known as the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk’s merry-go-round, has been traveling in circles. Generations of theme park visitors, from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After being closed since the beginning of the pandemic, Crescent Park's iconic Looff Carousel is spinning again and open to riders ...

EAST PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island is renowned, among carousel aficionados, both for its current offerings and for what has been lost. But how did Rhode Island come to have such a strong connection to the ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – The historic Looff Carrousel at Riverfront Park is undergoing a digital transformation to restore its iconic band organ. This effort aims to preserve the enchanting sound of the 1909 ...

Could there be room for another “world class icon” at the already iconic site of the Queen Mary? A Long Beach resident thinks so. Scott Ringwelski on Wednesday revealed a proposal to bring an antique ...

1909: Built by German woodcarver Charles Looff, the carousel is installed Natatorium Park as part of an expansion by Washington Water Power. 1929: Ownership of the park is taken over by Emma and Louis ...

Activities: $1 rides; KSPS documentary “Remember When: Nat Park” on the IMAX screen at 9 a.m.; dedication ceremony at 10:15 a.m. with Mayor Mary Verner and special guests including Looff descendants; ...

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Visitors to Riverside’s Crescent Park Looff Carousel and neighboring Rose Larisa Park will have to wait another summer for the clam shack to reopen. But they’ll still be ...

The Boardwalk will be buzzing this summer. Fresh ocean air allowed the landmark Santa Cruz beachside park to stay open to thrill seekers, skee-ball players and salt-water taffy eaters for much of the ...

The original Looff carousel on the Santa Monica Pier was sold off a long time ago, but the current merry-go-round, the bureaucratically named Philadelphia Toboggan Co. Carousel #62, was produced by ...