Golden Gate Park Carousel and its Gebrüder-Bruder model 107 band organ, 1993

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There are also carousels on the West Coast (actually rather a lot of them). Here is the one in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco:

Golden Gate Park Carousel, San Francisco, August 1993

Golden Gate Park Carousel, San Francisco, August 1993

Golden Gate Park Carousel, San Francisco, August 1993

Golden Gate Park Carousel, San Francisco, August 1993

Golden Gate Park Carousel, San Francisco, August 1993

Golden Gate Park Carousel, San Francisco, August 1993

Golden Gate Park Carousel, San Francisco, August 1993

And this is the carousel organ (or fairground organ) that brought me to Waldkirch in Breisgau, just next to Freiburg, six years later to arrange barrel organs - a model 107 by the Bruder brothers from Waldkirch, which still played carton notes at the time. You can read a few details about its not entirely pleasant history in a posting in the Mechanical Music Digest:

Gebr.Bruder organ at the Golden Gate Park Carousel, San Francisco, August 1993

Gebr.Bruder organ at the Golden Gate Park Carousel, San Francisco, August 1993

Gebr.Bruder organ at the Golden Gate Park Carousel, San Francisco, August 1993

Gebr.Bruder organ at the Golden Gate Park Carousel, San Francisco, August 1993

Golden Gate Park Carousel, San Francisco, August 1993

Golden Gate Park Carousel, San Francisco, August 1993

More carousel pictures:

Golden Gate Park Carousel, San Francisco, August 1993

Golden Gate Park Carousel, San Francisco, August 1993

Golden Gate Park Carousel, San Francisco, August 1993

Golden Gate Park Carousel, San Francisco, August 1993

Then a whole wedding party showed up:

Golden Gate Park Carousel, San Francisco, August 1993

Golden Gate Park Carousel, San Francisco, August 1993

Golden Gate Park Carousel, San Francisco, August 1993

Gebr.Bruder organ at the Golden Gate Park Carousel, San Francisco, August 1993

The organ, one last time:

Golden Gate Park Carousel, San Francisco, August 1993

Back then there was also a carousel museum in San Francisco - today, 31 years later, I can't find any mention of it. Here are three pictures from there:

Carousel museum, San Francisco, August 1993

Carousel museum, San Francisco, August 1993

Carousel museum, San Francisco, August 1993