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The Historical Carousel & Museum

February 28th My Photo group took an hours drive south to The Historical Carousel & Museum in Albany Oregon.
It was an amazing day getting to see volunteers of all skill levels amazingly carving and painting all the many different menagerie of animals real and mythical.
The Workers together are creating an unbelievable Carousel. I could have stayed all day taking pictures, and am sure to return again some day.

~ Many more pictures to come ~

From their Website~
"In 2002 the community of Albany, Oregon became interested in creating a hand carved carousel similar to projects recently completed in Missoula, Montana and Salem, Oregon. As a matter of fact it was a visit to Missoula by our board president, Wendy Kirby, that brought the idea of a carousel to Albany. Wendy was attending an Altrusa conference there where the carousel Missoula had done as a part of their downtown’s revitalization was one of that conference’s presentations. This was the spark that began Albany’s journey toward creating truly a one of a kind carousel!"

"This carousel will have 52 animals and, being a menagerie style unit, will have a variety of animals ranging from a seven foot plus tall giraffe, to dogs, cats, zebras, unicorns, dragons, and yes, even lions, tigers, and bears, (oh my just to name a few)! The animals will be situated on three rows where the outside (large animals) will be standers while the middle and inside row animals (medium and small sized respectively) will be jumpers. Each row will also have two replacement animals and we also have five seasonal animals planned, bringing our total to sixty-three animals."

"We also were fortunate to have a 1909 Dentzel Carousel Corporation mechanism donated to our project. Our initial plan was to purchase a new mechanism that would hold 32 animals. However, Bill Dentzel who is the great grandson of Gustav Dentzel, the founder of Dentzel Carousel Corporation, heard of our project and arranged for an antique mechanism to be donated to us. We owe a great debt of gratitude to both Bill Dentzel and the American Carousel Association, who in fact owned the mechanism prior to it being donated to our project through Bill Dentzel."

"Our mechanism has taken over ten years to restore to working order. The lead engineer on this aspect of the project is Carl Baker, who with a fine crew of volunteers has done a fantastic job in turning this truckload of “oh my word, what have we gotten ourselves into” into the marvel it is today! In fact, the mechanism is now fully operational and temporarily set up at an alternative work site in North Albany – way to go Carl and crew!"

The Historical Carousel & Museum in Albany Oregon
Address
503 1st Avenue West
Albany, OR 97321
Phone (541) 791-3340

albanycarousel.com/

Taken on: February 28, 2015

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