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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.
Location of Spokane County in Washington. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Spokane County, Washington. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Spokane County, Washington, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
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 ...
First Night Spokane's New Year's Eve party downtown lasted from 2001 to 2017. It was a family-friendly celebration of art and entertainment on New Year's. In 2003, the celebration attracted 25,000 ...
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.
The documentary recounts the 1960 protests at Glen Echo Amusement Park and stories of Howard University students who sat on the segregated carousel.