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The Over-the-Jumps Carousel, also known as the Herschell-Spillman Carousel, is a historic carousel at the Little Rock Zoo in Little Rock, Arkansas.Built in the 1920s and first exhibited at the 1924 Arkansas State Fair, it is believed to be the last operating "over-the-jumps" carousel in the world, with an original undulating wooden platform mounted on a 1960s-vintage caterpillar drive.
Herschell Spillman started out creating and carving carousels in a traditional style, but later branching out to create larger park machines, such as elaborate carousels with many types of animals. Surviving carousels can be found in California, Michigan, Maryland, and Portland, Oregon's Herschell–Spillman Noah's Ark Carousel .
The Spillman Engineering 3-Abreast Carousel was a carousel built in 1920 by the Allan Herschell Company. The carousel was in the Eastridge shopping Center, San Jose, California. It featured 30 hand-carved jumping wooden horses and two hand-carved chariots which serve as benches.
At one time four carousel builders operated in North Tonawanda. [3] The Allan Herschell Company, and its predecessor the Herschell-Spillman Company, was the most notable of them and operated from 1876 to 1959. The company produced wooden carousels into the 1930s. [2] The Allan Herschell Company also built other amusement devices.
Herschell-Spillman: Built in 1911 by the Herschell-Spillman Company and is one of the few carousels from its day still in operation. In 1976 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [47] [48] Pullen Park Carousel: 1912: Pullen Park, Raleigh, North Carolina: Dentzel 52 wooden animals carved by Salvatore Cernigliaro.
Pullen Park Carousel: 1900: Raleigh, North Carolina: Idora Park Merry-Go-Round: 1899: Youngstown, Ohio: delisted, restored as Jane's Carousel in Brooklyn, New York Herschell–Spillman Noah's Ark Carousel: 1913
In 1918 the Alan Herschell-Spillman Company of North Tonawanda, New York, created a 38-animal carousel adorned with dogs, frogs, zebras, and roosters as well as horses. [ 4 ] In 1959, Bob Anderson of California erected the Herschell-Spillman carousel at Incline Village amusement park near Lake Tahoe , Nevada , better known as Ponderosa Ranch ...
The carousel has 24 horses, four chariots, and 16 folding benches. The steam riding gallery type is characterized by horses that rock back and forth, rather than move up and down. It was constructed by the Herschell-Spillman Co. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. [1]