Thursday, June 27, 2019
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| Tonawanda had much to do with the history of merry-go-rounds. There were carousel horses sprinkled throughout the town. |
Our last day on the Erie Canal we stopped at the Herschell Carousel Factory Museum in Tonawanda. Rob and I were the only adults there without any children in tow and I think we had the most fun.
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| Carousel animals were originally carved from wood. On display were the animals in various stages of completion. The master carvers did not consider themselves artists and were surprised when, years after they retired they were honored as such. |
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| Animals came in all species and styles. |
The same companies that made the music for carousels also made player pianos. We saw the machines that made the music rolls but I still couldn't make sense of it.
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| In 1920 there were more player-pianos in the United States than bathtubs. |
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| The first carousels were not meant for children at all. |
There were other museums along the trail that I would have liked to stop at, a coverlet museum, clock museum, and railroad museum, but they were all closed on the days we were passing by. We had no interest in checking out the birthplace of Mormonism in Palmyra. It was nice to close out our time in New York visiting such a fun place.
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