RENEWING ELDRIDGE PARK
Elmira, New York

photo courtesy of Tom Burhyte
Tom & Scott Burhyte
Brass Ring Feeder Light Box

Building more things from memory - Tom Burhyte, who worked on the carousel crew as a boy and literally grew up at Eldridge Park in the Forties and Fifties, and his son, Scott, are recreating the light box that flashed its way into our memories way back when. The squares alternately light up as a ring is snatched from the ring feeder mechanism.

Here are others of Tom's photos and stories that we've posted earlier at our Eldridge Park Home Page:

Jasper circa 1947
Jasper circa 1952
Working at the Merry-Go Round
Park in His Blood
Brass Ring Feeder Schematic
A Piece of Jasper

How about you? Do you remember Eldridge Park?
What was it like when you and your family
went there? Any favorite memories?
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write to us.

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