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<TITLE>FunGuide - the Internet Directory of Fun Places</TITLE>
<b>FunGuide's Historical Facts about ...Amusement, Theme & Water Parks
<p>The first Ferris Wheel stood 264 feet high, had 36 pendulum cars which carried 60 passengers each
(total of 2,160 riders), weighted 1,200 tons and was powered by two 1,000 horsepower engines. The Ferris
wheel was designed by George Washington Gale Ferris, and was opened to the public on June 21st, 1893 at
the World's Columbian Exposition.</p>
<br>Ferris contracted the construction of the Ferris wheel to a dozen steel companies, since it was so large
that no single steel company could produce it. It was produced for a cost of $350,000 (in 1893). The Ferris
wheel was so popular that it's cost was recovered within a few weeks, at the exposition.
<p>High atop the Palisades cliffs, located within the New Jersey boroughs of Cliffside Park and Fort Lee, once
stood the home of the famous Cyclone roller coaster, the Tunnel of Love and the world's largest salt water pool.
The place was called Palisades Amusement Park and it grew to be one of the world's most famous fun centers, achieving
national prominence through a national advertising campaign as well as the Freddie Cannon song, "Palisades Park".
At the famed open-air theater, top entertainers of the day performed for record crowds. The names of performers on
the stages of Palisades reads like a Who's Who of musicians; Benny Goodman's Big Band, Cab Calloway, Les Brown & His
Orchestra, Harry James, The Dorsey Brothers, Fabian, Chubby Checker, The Shirelles, The Chiffons, Leslie Gore, The
Jackson Five, Tony Bennett, Vic Damone, The Four Seasons, Bill Haley & The Comets, Bobby Rydell, Dion, Jackie Wilson,
Neil Sedaka, Tony Orlando, Frankie Avalon, Little Anthony, Diana Ross & The Supremes, The Young Rascals, The Loving
Spoonful, The Fifth Dimension and many more.Palisades finally closed its doors on September 12, 1971 but the memories
live on in the hearts of the countless people who were touched by its magic. A new book, Palisades Amusement Park: A
Century of Fond Memories (Rutgers University Press) contains hundreds of photographs and tells the entire history of
the Park that captured the hearts of millions of fun-seekers.
<a href="http://members.aol.com/pelisades1/index.html">Palisades Amusement Park Historical Society</a>
<b>AMUSEMENT PARKS & BAND ORGANS- THE MUSIC OF HAPPY TIMES
Of all the sounds associated with happy childhood memories at merry-go-rounds and amusement parks, none are more vivid
nor pleasantly and immediately recalled than the sound of the merry-go-round organ or calliope.In the days before
electronics or speakers, the only way to create the sound of a band without hiring real human players was to automate
loud organ pipes (which make their sound from air blowing through them), actual drums and percussion like bells and
xylophones and make them play together by mechanical, rather than electronic means. The invention of the player piano
in the 19th century did much to develop band organs, which were called "military band organs" that provided music for
carousels and skating rinks, because they sounded as loud and as full as an actual military or brass band, the most
popular type of band in those days.
<p>The first instruments used a huge, pinned cylinder, like a gigantic version of the tiny metal pinned cylinder found
in music boxes, but most were built with paper roll players (like a player piano had) from 1910 to the time of their
"obsolescence", in the early 1930s. A calliope was actually an organ with only one sound to its pipes- a loud whistle
or flute sound. Most were air blown, although the first calliopes were actually blown by steam, having been used on
steamboats and using steam from their boilers. A few were also played by paper rolls, but nearly all could be hand-played,
like a piano. The leading American manufacturers were The Rudolf Wurlitzer Co.; North Tonawanda Musical Instrument Works;
Artizan, and The Tangley Co. (calliopes only). Most of these happy instruments were destroyed when their usefulness ended
and replaced with speaker systems. Fires, floods, natural disasters and vandalism claimed many more over the years. The
few remaining are in the hands of appreciative collectors today, mostly restored to their former glory. A very few (like
the WurliTzer model 165 in Maryland's Glen Echo Park or the band organs at California's Knott's Berry Farm) are still
playing in amusement parks or on merry-go-rounds. If you like the sound of these instruments, or like the kind of music
they play and want a source of recordings, I'll be happy to email a list of what I know is available. Please email me,
Stephen Kent Goodman, at skgoodman@delphi.com</p>
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