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| Lakeside Carousel at Port Dalhousie |
With the usual 401/QEW traffic on the weekends (or any day
for that matter!), we decided to make it all about the journey and not the
destination. So, before heading for Niagara Falls, we stopped by St. Catharines
to check out their famous carousel at Port Dalhousie.
I have heard of and even gone on free midway rides in some
festivals, but I have never heard of carousel rides still at 5c a ride. It must
be a joke or it must be old info that I saw. But it was no joke—it truly still
was 5c a ride! So ride we did! It was a lot of fun as we usually don’t go with
the kids on carousel rides (more fun since it cost us only a quarter with
grandma riding as well!).
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| Nothing can beat 5c a ride @ Lakeside Park Carousel |
The Lakeside Carousel was hand-carved sometime between 1898
and 1905 by Charles Looff’s factory in Brooklyn, NY. It has 68 animals—not only
fancy horses (which apparently has real horsehair tails!) but also camels and
lions, along with chariots. The accompanying music was played by an antique
organ with uses a system of paper music rolls. Hubby rode one of the five
existing Looff lions in all of North America and it was the only one that has
its head turned to watch the onlookers! I, of course, chose one of the horses
which go up and down :)
Apart from this famous carousel, we just walked along the
Lakeside Park beach (unsafe for swimming) and admired the lighthouses (built in
the late 1800’s). This is a good place to relax if you have an hour to spare
(or even less) in the area.
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