GGMac

To Jds03 - I hope you see this; it's been several years since you posted photos of the site of the willow Grove Amusement Park. I have thoroughly enjoyed your photos - especially of the carousel. I'm 76 years old now, but very clearly remember riding on that carousel in the early 1940s. We lived within an hour or so of the park, so visited many times. The carousel figures were beautiful, and very uncommon - as you've noted. In my time, there were two "bench-type" figures - for the grannies who didn't want to climb up on the animals. One of these is visible in your photo, right there in the middle, in front of the white elephant. It looks like a circus wagon design. The other, one in my day, was a large white swan decorated with garlands of [painted] flowers. If the one in operation today isn't the original, is certainly is a close facsimile. Thank you SO much for posting these.