Image:Hershey carrousel.jpg

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Date
1944
Place
Hershey, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States
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Hershey Community Archives

Hershey Park's current carrousel, PTC#47, was purchased in 1944.

Hershey Park has been home to three different carrousels or merry-go-rounds over the years. Hershey Park’s first carrousel began operating in 1908. One of Hershey Chocolate’s salesmen, who had seen one while out traveling on business, thought the park should have one. He also knew where the park could buy a good secondhand machine. He told Harry Lebkicher who thought it would be a great addition to the park, but Milton Hershey was unimpressed. “That can wait,” Mr. Hershey said. But shortly after the park’s 1908 opening day he changed his mind and Hershey Park purchased a small, used merry-go-round and band organ from the Herschell Spillman Company of North Tonawanda, New York. The ride cost fifteen hundred dollars ($1500), while a new merry-go-round would have cost more than two thousand dollars ($2000).

Milton Hershey and Harry Lebkicher had different ideas on where the new merry-go-round should be set up. Lebkicher wanted it near the entrance to the park to attract as many riders as possible and not in some out of the way place. Mr. Hershey wanted it located on the far side of Spring Creek near the baseball field. Milton Hershey’s location made sense once he announced his plans to add a miniature railway that would transport people from downtown Hershey to the far end of the park. The Spillman merry-go-round was delivered to the park in June 1908. Hershey’s general contractor, Jim Putt, and his men quickly built a new pavilion to house it. The merry-go-round was located on the north side of Spring Creek at what was then the far western edge of the park near the baseball field. It was up and running before the 4th of July. When the ride’s organ played it could be heard more than three blocks away at the Cocoa House, located at the intersection of Chocolate and Cocoa Avenues.

Image copied without restriction from Hershey Community Archives: Hershey Park Carrousel Rides by BobC on 22 September 2009 for use on Hershey Community Archives page.

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