The entire carousel was then rewired and its hundreds of lights were replaced. The Wurlitzer band organ had to be completely disassembled and overhauled. New components were created, lost connections found, and the complicated instrument was delicately tuned. If you do not see the slideshow here, you may have turned off Java support in your browser. Most browsers today display Java programs.
Successive runs take three minutes or less.
If you do not see the slideshow here, you may have turned off Java support in your browser. All in all it was a painstaking, labor-intensive project, but well worth the effort. All colors, materials and details in this carousel are faithful to the 1909 original. In its ninth decade, Philadelphia Toboggan Company Carousel No. 18 has brought joy and laughter to successive generations of families, children, and sweethearts. The photographs seen here are from that visit.