Themeparkfanatic | Grand Carrousel at Worlds of Fun @woodencoasterfan | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
This is the Grand Carrousel at Worlds of Fun near Kansas City, Missouri. It is a very rare carousel from the Marcus Illions shop. His company carved this carousel in 1926 for the US Sesquicentennial celebration in Philadelphia. It operated there until 1928 when it was moved to an unknown location in Birmingham, Alabama, before being moved in 1930 to the M.C. Illions shop in Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY, where it was refurbished. It was then moved to Geauga Lake in Aurora, Ohio in 1937 where it operated until the park closed in 2007. Cedar Fair, who owned Geauga Lake put it in storage so the Carousel Works team in Mansfield, Ohio, could restore it. It was then moved to Worlds of Fun in 2011 where it currently sits. The original band organ that came with the carousel lost in a fire in 1952. There is a Stinson organ with a M.C. Illions facade that plays rolls form a WurliTzer 165 here, but it seems to not be working when the video was taken.
This carousel is unique in two ways, the first of which is that all four rings are jumpers. Usually, the outer ring are horses that stand, and the inner rings are jumpers. Secondly, each row of horses is a single base color. There are 64 jumping horses and 2 chariots.
This is the Grand Carrousel at Worlds of Fun near Kansas City, Missouri. It is a very rare carousel from the Marcus Illions shop. His company carved this carousel in 1926 for the US Sesquicentennial celebration in Philadelphia. It operated there until 1928 when it was moved to an unknown location in Birmingham, Alabama, before being moved in 1930 to the M.C. Illions shop in Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY, where it was refurbished. It was then moved to Geauga Lake in Aurora, Ohio in 1937 where it operated until the park closed in 2007. Cedar Fair, who owned Geauga Lake put it in storage so the Carousel Works team in Mansfield, Ohio, could restore it. It was then moved to Worlds of Fun in 2011 where it currently sits. The original band organ that came with the carousel lost in a fire in 1952. There is a Stinson organ with a M.C. Illions facade that plays rolls form a WurliTzer 165 here, but it seems to not be working when the video was taken.
This carousel is unique in two ways, the first of which is that all four rings are jumpers. Usually, the outer ring are horses that stand, and the inner rings are jumpers. Secondly, each row of horses is a single base color. There are 64 jumping horses and 2 chariots.
