Tilden Park Merry Go Round
Address:
Central Park Drive
Berkeley
, CA
, 94708
Phone:
5105591004
37° 53' 40.65" N, 122° 15' 49.392" W
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Manufactured by the Herschell Spillman Company, North Tonawanda, New York. Built in 1911, 3 row machine with menagerie animals, the 2nd permanent machine built by Herschell Spillman for Oliver Davis, Redlands CA. First installed in Urbita Springs, an amusement park built by the Pacific Electric Railway along its trolley line between San Bernardino and Corona, CA In 1916 the Merry Go Round moved to Wonderland Park, Ocean Beach, San Diego and was sold in 1928 and moved to somewhere near Long Beach, CA. In 1935 Oliver Davis reacquires the machine and ,Ross Davis and his son John moved it to TILDEN REGIONAL PARK
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