時代的結束：大西洋海灘公園旋轉木馬在近100年後逐漸淡化歷史

這不是在Misquamicut的Atlantic Beach Casino購買和安裝的第一個旋轉木馬和朱莉婭·特雷夫斯（Julia Treefes）

The historic carousel at Atlantic Beach Park in Misquamicut, R.I., has closed after nearly 100 years of operation.

在RI Misquamicut的大西洋海灘公園的歷史悠久的旋轉木馬，經過近100年的運行，已關閉。

The 54-foot-wide Illions carousel, which is one of a kind and included three signature horses personally hand-carved, painted and signed by master carver Marcus C. Illions, was installed in a giant, circular building that was created to house it. Illions only made one signature horse per carousel, but Trefes’s carousel included three because it was built using horses salvaged from other carousels that had been wrecked by the Great New England Hurricane.

這款54英尺寬的Illions Carousel是一種，其中包括由Carver Marcus C. Marcus C. Marcus C. Marcus C. Marcus C. Marcus C. Marcus C. Marcus C. Marcus C. Marcus C. Marcus C. Marcus C. Marcus C. Marcus C. Marcus C. Marcus C. Marcus C. Marcus C. Illions簽名的三隻標誌性馬匹，該馬被安裝在一個巨大的圓形建築物中，該建築物是為了容納它的。 Illions只製作了每台旋轉木馬的一匹馬，但Treefes的旋轉木馬包括三匹，因為它是使用新英格蘭大颶風破壞的其他旋轉木馬的馬匹建造的。

Those horses are now very valuable antiques. Because of their value they were eventually removed from service. Harry, his sister Sally Sorensen, and cousin Charles Trefes, the current owner of Atlantic Beach Park, each received one, and for several years all three were on display at the New England Carousel Museum in Bristol, Conn.

這些馬現在是非常有價值的古董。由於它們的價值，他們最終被撤離服務。哈利（Harry），他的姐姐薩利·索倫森（Sally Sorensen）和堂兄查爾斯·特雷夫斯（Charles Treefes）是當前的大西洋海灘公園的所有者，每個人都收到了一個，並且在康涅狄格州布里斯托爾的新英格蘭旋轉木馬博物館展出了幾年。

The carousel included sleds and horses in various poses, some stationary and some that went up and down on golden posts, each with its own unique, painted design. Its band organ was built by Artizan Factories Inc. in North Tonawanda, N.Y. It worked like a player piano, with music rolls that essentially programmed the instrument to play specific songs on a mix of instruments that included drums, cymbals, whistles and bells. The factory only produced band organs between 1922 and 1929 before going out of business.

旋轉木馬包括各種姿勢的雪橇和馬匹，有些靜止，有些在金色的柱子上上下上下，每個柱子都有自己獨特的彩繪設計。它的樂隊風琴是由紐約州北部托納萬達的Artizan Facories Inc.建造的，它的工作方式像演奏家鋼琴，其音樂卷基本上對樂器進行了編程，以在包括鼓，Cymbals，Whistles和Bells在內的樂器中播放特定的歌曲。工廠僅在1922年至1929年間生產了樂隊器官。

At some point, coin-operated rides were installed along the perimeter walls of the carousel, including the Pony Twins ride, a Baby Tusko elephant ride, and the Musical Ferris Wheel, with a single chair that went up and around in a circle. To my knowledge the elephant ride is the last one in the country left, Trefes said, adding that the only other one he ever saw, in a New Jersey arcade, was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

在某個時候，沿著旋轉木馬的周邊牆壁安裝了旋轉的騎行，包括小馬雙胞胎騎行，一輛嬰兒托斯科大象騎行和音樂摩天輪，帶有一把椅子，一把椅子在一個圓圈中抬起。 Treefes說，據我所知，大象騎行是該國剩下的最後一個，並補充說，他在新澤西州街機中唯一見過的另一個大象騎了大象，在2012年被颶風桑迪摧毀。

Eventually the main platform, rotation mechanisms, and center equipment began to show signs of wear and Harry Trefes’s sons, Elias, who went by Lou, and Charles, began searching for a replacement.

最終，主要平台，旋轉機制和中心設備開始顯示出磨損的跡象，哈里·特雷夫斯（Harry Treefes）的兒子埃里亞斯（Elias）乘勞（Lou）和查爾斯（Charles）開始尋找替代品。

My uncle and dad removed the horses and started doing restorations on them while they looked for a different carousel to put them on, Charles Trefes recalls. In the interim a smaller, 36-foot wide Chance Rides carousel occupied the space for a time, and rental units filled in for one or two seasons. We even had a double-decker in there at one point.

查爾斯·特雷夫斯（Charles Treefes）回憶說，我的叔叔和爸爸搬走了馬，並在尋找其他輪播將它們戴上的時候開始對它們進行修復。在臨時，一個較小的36英尺寬的機會騎車旋轉了一段時間，租用了一個或兩個季節。我們甚至在其中有一個雙層甲板。

Finally, in the 1990s, the brothers purchased a circa 1910 Herschell-Spillman menagerie carousel from the Rocky Point Park in Warwick, which had gone out of business. And at some point the original band organ was replaced and moved to the side of the carousel, where it has stood for many years.

最終，在1990年代，兄弟倆從沃里克（Warwick）的洛磯角公園（Rocky Point Park）購買了大約1910年的1910年Herschell-Spillman Menagerie旋轉木馬，後者倒閉了。在某個時候，原始的樂隊器官被替換並移至旋轉木馬的一側，它已經站在了很多年。

Other changes had to be made to accommodate the new carousel platform into the existing building. The faces you see above the center used to be along the outside of the carousel, but because of the way our building is we had to put them in the center. The panels, some illustrated, some in relief, include scenes and characters from fairy tales and nursery rhymes. There’s one panel that I made sure to purposely leave untouched because it was somebody’s prediction of the year 3,000, and it’s just a black image, Trefes says. I always thought that was kind of odd.

必須進行其他更改，以便將新的旋轉木馬平台容納到現有建築物中。您在中心上方看到的面孔曾經沿著旋轉木馬的外部，但是由於我們的建築物的方式，我們不得不將它們放在中心。這些面板，有些是浮雕的，包括童話和托兒所押韻的場景和角色。 Treefes說，我確保有目的地留下一個面板，因為這是某人對3,000年的預測，這只是一個黑色的圖像。我一直認為這有點奇怪。

Then there was the strange story of the zebra that made its way into the carousel herd. Illions never made a zebra, but the Atlantic Beach Park carousel ended up with one after one horse was sent out for what was supposed to be a restoration.

然後是一個奇怪的故事，講述了斑馬進入旋轉木馬群。 Illions從來沒有做過斑馬，但是大西洋海灘公園旋轉木馬最終被一匹馬送出，因為原本應該是修復的一匹馬。

We sent it to a company we hadn’t used before, and lo and behold it came back as a zebra. My father and uncle were less than thrilled that someone would take a valuable Illions horse and paint it as a zebra.

我們將其發送給了一家以前從未使用過的公司，然後再看它作為斑馬回來。我的父親和叔叔對某人會拿起有價值的診所並將其描繪成斑馬而感到興奮。

That ended up being a happy mistake, however, because once they put it back onto the carousel it became the most popular horse of all. It’s also my daughter Allie’s favorite, Trefes said. She worked on this carousel since she was old enough to start climbing and she knows as much about it and how it works as anyone.

然而，這最終是一個幸福的錯誤，因為一旦他們將其放迴旋轉木馬上，它就成為了所有人中最受歡迎的馬。 Treefes說，這也是我女兒艾莉的最愛。她從事這款旋轉木馬的工作，因為她已經足夠大，可以開始攀登，並且對此一無所知，它與任何人的起作用一樣多。

Today the carousel sits empty, the horses disassembled from the rotating carousel floor. They sit along the interior walls of the circular building, mounted on racks, ready to be moved into storage safely away from the encroaching oceanfront. After 85 years, the carousel has stopped spinning, and the ornate band organ has played its last waltz.

今天，旋轉木馬坐著，馬從旋轉的旋轉木馬地板上拆開。他們坐在圓形建築物的內壁，安裝在架子上，隨時可以安全地移入儲存量，遠離侵略的海濱。 85年後，旋轉木馬已經停止旋轉，華麗的樂隊風琴發揮了最後的華爾茲。

Shut down during the pandemic, the carousel never reopened, a victim of changing regulations, increased storm activity, and the fearsome threat posed by coastal erosion to the beachfront attraction.

在大流行期間關閉，旋轉木馬從未重新開放，是法規變化，風暴活動增加以及沿海侵蝕海濱吸引人所帶來的可怕威脅的受害者。

The carousel was the last of the many rides that once entertained children from all over New England at the

旋轉木馬是曾經招待來自新英格蘭各地的孩子的眾多遊樂設施中的最後一次