Title supplied by cataloger. This carousel, hand-carved by Charles Looff in 1906, was initially located at Luna Park in Seattle. When that amusement park closed in 1913, the carousel was moved to Playland in San Francisco. Upon that park's closure in the early 1970s, the carousel was purchased by author and collector Marianne Stevens, who later leased it to Shoreline Village from February 1983 until late 1994. At the end of the lease, Stevens sold the historic attraction for $1 million dollars to the city of San Francisco who planned to make it a centerpiece of their proposed Children's Creativity Museum, which opened in 1998. In honor of a San Francisco Redevelopment Commissioner, the attraction was renamed the LeRoy King Carousel in 2014. This carousel closely resembles another one built by Looff that had existed at Long Beach's Pike from 1911 to 1943, when it was destroyed by fire. A woman holds a young girl on a carousel horse at Shoreline Village in Long Beach, August 1985.
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image
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1 slide : color ; 5x5 cm. Photographic color slides
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