Monday, February 22, 2016

Spin around!

How many of you remember taking a ride on these when you were a kid?



 The ride would only cost a nickle or a dime.



 Apparently, they still use them today:



 They were even popular as toys:


 Sometimes a small traveling circus would set up in an empty lot on a Saturday and would have several of these trucks around.


 Don't know if the owners had to have liability insurance back then, but it must cost a fortune today!
 


:o)

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    1. I think they were mostly used in the cities, Gorges. I remember them in the late forties and early fifties on our street. Sometimes a photographer with a pony would come by, but they were too expensive.

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    2. "Ya learn sumthin' new ever day," I used to hear!

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    3. It was fun and nice back then - it's a shame the place went all downhill. I wouldn't want to grow up there today.

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