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The Riverfront Park Carrousel, also known as the Looff Carrousel and the Natatorium Park Carousel, is a carousel in Spokane, Washington built in 1909 by Charles I. D. Looff as a gift for Looff's daughter Emma Vogel and her husband Louis Vogel, who owned Natatorium Park in Spokane. [1] It remained at Natatorium Park until 1968 when the park closed.
Spokane Falls Blvd. Built circa 1909 and also known as the Natatorium Carousel, this carousel was designed by Charles I. D. Looff and moved from Natatorium Park to its current site at Riverfront Park in 1975. 85
Spokane's carousel, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, [123] and still operates for riders today, was built in 1909 as a wedding gift from Looff to his daughter Emma and her husband Louis Vogel. [124] [125] The ride was first installed in nearby Natatorium Park, and operated there until the park's closure in ...
Dec. 29—Today, New Year's often means fireworks, parties or just a relaxing night with family to watch the ball drop on TV. But in decades gone by, the revelry sometimes had a different look.
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
Feb. 11—Marycliff High School was an all-girls Catholic school on Spokane's South Hill that opened in 1929. The name was a combination of the name Mary with the word Undercliff, the property's ...
The history of Spokane, Washington in the northwestern United States developed because Spokane Falls and its surroundings were a gathering place for numerous cultures for thousands of years. The area's indigenous people settled there due to the fertile hunting grounds and abundance of salmon in the Spokane River.
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