时代的结束：大西洋海滩公园旋转木马在近100年后逐渐淡化历史

这不是在Misquamicut的Atlantic Beach Casino购买和安装的第一个旋转木马和朱莉娅·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的大西洋海滩公园的历史悠久的旋转木马，经过近100年的运行，已关闭。

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.

这款54英尺宽的Illions Carousel是一种，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签名的三只标志性马匹，该马被安装在一个巨大的圆形建筑物中，该建筑物是为了容纳它的。 Illions只制作了每台旋转木马的一匹马，但Treefes的旋转木马包括三匹，因为它是使用新英格兰大飓风破坏的其他旋转木马的马匹建造的。

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.

这些马现在是非常有价值的古董。由于它们的价值，他们最终被撤离服务。哈利（Harry），他的姐姐萨利·索伦森（Sally Sorensen）和堂兄查尔斯·特雷夫斯（Charles Treefes）是当前的大西洋海滩公园的所有者，每个人都收到了一个，并且在康涅狄格州布里斯托尔的新英格兰旋转木马博物馆展出了几年。

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.

旋转木马包括各种姿势的雪橇和马匹，有些静止，有些在金色的柱子上上下上下，每个柱子都有自己独特的彩绘设计。它的乐队风琴是由纽约州北部托纳万达的Artizan Facories Inc.建造的，它的工作方式像演奏家钢琴，其音乐卷基本上对乐器进行了编程，以在包括鼓，Cymbals，Whistles和Bells在内的乐器中播放特定的歌曲。工厂仅在1922年至1929年间生产了乐队器官。

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.

在某个时候，沿着旋转木马的周边墙壁安装了旋转的骑行，包括小马双胞胎骑行，一辆婴儿托斯科大象骑行和音乐摩天轮，带有一把椅子，一把椅子在一个圆圈中抬起。 Treefes说，据我所知，大象骑行是该国剩下的最后一个，并补充说，他在新泽西州街机中唯一见过的另一个大象骑了大象，在2012年被飓风桑迪摧毁。

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.

最终，主要平台，旋转机制和中心设备开始显示出磨损的迹象，哈里·特雷夫斯（Harry Treefes）的儿子埃里亚斯（Elias）乘劳（Lou）和查尔斯（Charles）开始寻找替代品。

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.

查尔斯·特雷夫斯（Charles Treefes）回忆说，我的叔叔和爸爸搬走了马，并在寻找其他轮播将它们戴上的时候开始对它们进行修复。在临时，一个较小的36英尺宽的机会骑车旋转了一段时间，租用了一个或两个季节。我们甚至在其中有一个双层甲板。

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.

最终，在1990年代，兄弟俩从沃里克（Warwick）的洛矶角公园（Rocky Point Park）购买了大约1910年的1910年Herschell-Spillman Menagerie旋转木马，后者倒闭了。在某个时候，原始的乐队器官被替换并移至旋转木马的一侧，它已经站在了很多年。

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.

必须进行其他更改，以便将新的旋转木马平台容纳到现有建筑物中。您在中心上方看到的面孔曾经沿着旋转木马的外部，但是由于我们的建筑物的方式，我们不得不将它们放在中心。这些面板，有些是浮雕的，包括童话和托儿所押韵的场景和角色。 Treefes说，我确保有目的地留下一个面板，因为这是某人对3,000年的预测，这只是一个黑色的图像。我一直认为这有点奇怪。

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.

然后是一个奇怪的故事，讲述了斑马进入旋转木马群。 Illions从来没有做过斑马，但是大西洋海滩公园旋转木马最终被一匹马送出，因为原本应该是修复的一匹马。

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.

我们将其发送给了一家以前从未使用过的公司，然后再看它作为斑马回来。我的父亲和叔叔对某人会拿起有价值的诊所并将其描绘成斑马而感到兴奋。

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，这最终是一个幸福的错误，因为一旦他们将其放回旋转木马上，它就成为了所有人中最受欢迎的马。 Treefes说，这也是我女儿艾莉的最爱。她从事这款旋转木马的工作，因为她已经足够大，可以开始攀登，并且对此一无所知，它与任何人的起作用一样多。

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，旋转木马坐着，马从旋转的旋转木马地板上拆开。他们坐在圆形建筑物的内壁，安装在架子上，随时可以安全地移入储存量，远离侵略的海滨。 85年后，旋转木马已经停止旋转，华丽的乐队风琴发挥了最后的华尔兹。

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.

在大流行期间关闭，旋转木马从未重新开放，是法规变化，风暴活动增加以及沿海侵蚀海滨吸引人所带来的可怕威胁的受害者。

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

旋转木马是曾经招待来自新英格兰各地的孩子的众多游乐设施中的最后一次