WY COUPLE SEEKING DONATIONS TO SAVE CARNIVAL RIDE

Friends of the Carousel seek $350,000

WEST VANCOUVER residents Pat and Keith Jamieson
want someone to help them grab the brass ring. They are
looking for some generous donor to come up with $350,000
to rescue the Playland carousel at the PNE from oblivion.

The Jamiesons are members of a
group called Friends of the
Carousel, that hopes to persuade
Vancouver City or some private
benefactor to buy the dilapidated
merry-go-round frem its present
Playland owners and restore it to
its original glory.

Keith Jamieson says the 36-horse
machine, a classic built in 1915,
“needs to be rescued.'’ J_mieson
says Playland hasn't looked after
the machine. ‘‘It was not worked
on by proper restoration experts,’’
he says. ‘“‘For three months last
year it was outside in the rain
without a top on it.’’ He suggests
Playland either restore it properly
or put it into the hands of an his-
torical foundation.

**The carousel has been in Van-
couver since 1947, carrying thou-

By RAY TICKSON

Cortnbutne Writer

sands of children,"* says Jamieson.
“It's part of our heritage.""

Playland’s Linda Lloyd says
Vancouver City has requested
Playland hang on to the ride while
city officials consider giving it a
heritage designation.

Jamieson says he believes
Playiand's owner, York Hannover
Hotels Ltd., of Mississauga, Ont.,
will break the machine up and sel!
the horses to individual collectors
if it can’t get the $350,000 price it’s
asking.

Carousel horses can be worth
more sold to individual collectors
than as an entire merry-go-round,
Jamieson says. Some especially

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WEST Vancouver Ald. Cerc! Ann
Reynolds ...seniors’ centre should
be represented.

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looking forward to
these people,’’ said

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meeting
Reynolds.

Twenty-four applications were
received and reviewed and nine
men and women were chosen who
were considered to have demon-
strated interest and knowledge in
heritage matters.

Five of the committee members
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Tare specimens have been auction-
ed for more than $90,000.

Venus Solano, chairperson of
Friends of the Carousel, says
Guernsey's Auctions from New
York has been in Vancouver

5) Suntdhas,

carousel,

Fraser says the carousel may be
able to earn its upkeep by being
tented out as a concession. **There
are heritage trust funds that will
probably support the cost of resto-

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“sniffing around the carousel."*
She says they would like to sell it
for York Hannover.

The mayor of Vancouver is very
interested in the carousel, says his
executive assistant. Janet Fraser
says mayor Gordon Campbell ask-
ed the owner not to sell the
machine until all avenues have
been explored to purchase it local-

y.

‘*York Hannover has given us
some time to try to get some group
to purchase it,’’ Fraser says.
“They were going to sell it this
April, but they are waiting unti? we
can sort out the options.’’ She says
the city has no funds to buy the

and former chairman of Van-
couver's Heritage Hall Board,
Carol Nicholson is an art consul-
tant and instructor, Hugh
Johnston is a member of the West
Vancouver Museum & Historical
Society while Foster Dennison is a
businessman who was a_ charter
executive director of that society.

Reynolds later said that the
people chosen for the committee
were excellent, but that she had
further recommendations for the
future,

‘Just as the historical society
has recommended someone to the
committee, | feel that the seniors’
centre should be represented,
because they’re part of our living
heritage,"’ she added.

ration,’” she says, leaving only the
purchase price to be raised locally.

Some cities in the United States
own carousels and operate them as
concessions. New York, San Fran-
cisco and Portiand all have
wonderful carousels owned by the
cities or historical foundations,
says Jamieson.

At one time there were over
4,000 wooden carousels in North
America. Now there may only be
about 200 left. ‘‘In 10 years there
will not be any wooden carousels
left in any amusement parks any-

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where,’’ Jamieson says.

High-tech, flashy rides that can
be put up and taken down in two
hours by a two to three man crew
are replacing the more cumber-
some old machines that don’:
trailer well and take a large crew to
assemble.

Solano says William Densel II.
the grandson of the man who in-
troduced the carousel to North
America, has agreed to oversee
restoration work. Brass Ring Ven-
tures has offered to donate time
and expertise to organize volun-
teers to do the refinishing.

Solano is appealing to people
who may have photos of the
carousel as it was in the 1940s or
"50s to please phone her at 873-
9516. She is especially interested in
pictures of the Wurlitzer organ
that used to be part of the
carousel.

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