The Cafesjian Carousel is located at Como Park in St. Paul Minnesota. It is PTC #33 built by the Philadelphia Tobogan Company (PTC) and installed at the Minnesota State Fair Grounds in 1914. It moved to its current location in 2000 and underwent a complete restoration.
There are 68 horses on this carousel. The one pictured to the right is the only "paint."
The Cafesjian Carousel is operated by a non-profit group and is staffed by one full time person and 90-100 volenteers.
I am interested in learning of other PTC carousels that are still around, if you know of one let me know.
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PTC #30, in Luna Park (Australia):
http://carouselptc30.customer.netspace.net.au/PTC30%20Carousel.htm
Oh, and there's a census of operating carousels, including PTC carousels, here:
http://www.nca-usa.org/NCAcensusStatesK-M.htm#MN
I don't think you're working very hard on your blog.
I'm just going to keep posting comments here until an entire page is filled up with that photo of Eryn and my from the summer of 2003.
See?
I'm going to post a comment here as well to encourage you to post more. Biannually isn't often enough.
Really, Dad, your blog needs content. You got that snappy new camera! Do something!
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