Seabreeze Park #1 (From Eric Beheim)

PTC-A, a photo by bucklesw1 on Flickr. During the summer of 1971 and while passing through Rochester, New York on my way to Fort Benjamin Harrison to attend a military school, I stopped off at Seabreeze Park to see about buying a carousel horse from the park’s owner George Long. Some years earlier, Mr. Long had bought the carving machine that had once been used by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company to carve carousel figures. Using one of the horses from the park’s 1915 carousel as a pattern, Mr. Long, who was then in his ‘80s, went into the carving business. Here we see the carving machine and the pattern used for carving the heads.