Griffith Park Merry-Go-Round
Hand-carved nineteen-twenties carousel of sixty-eight wooden horses, said to have inspired the idea for Disneyland.
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This guide to the Griffith Park Merry-Go-Round follows a hand-carved 1926 carousel from its first years spinning in Mission Beach, San Diego, to its move here in 1937 under the Davis family, carousel builders who placed rides across California. You'll hear about a young father from nearby Los Feliz who brought his daughters here on Saturdays, and what he later said he was thinking about while he sat on a bench watching them go around. Listen for the band organ still grinding out its old songs.
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