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Order Number	00163679
Title	Shoreline Village carousel
Photographer	Hankey, Roy.
Collection ID	Roy Hankey Collection Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession	GPC_b123_f4_s19
Date	1985
Physical Description	1 slide : color ; 5x5 cm.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.
Historical Data	This carousel, hand-carved by Charles Looff in 1906, was initially located at Luna Park in Seattle. When that amusement park closed in 1913, the carousel was moved to Playland in San Francisco. Upon that park's closure in the early 1970s, the carousel was purchased by author and collector Marianne Stevens, who later leased it to Shoreline Village from February 1983 until late 1994. At the end of the lease, Stevens sold the historic attraction for $1 million dollars to the city of San Francisco who planned to make it a centerpiece of their proposed Children's Creativity Museum, which opened in 1998. In honor of a San Francisco Redevelopment Commissioner, the attraction was renamed the LeRoy King Carousel in 2014. This carousel closely resembles another one built by Looff that had existed at Long Beach's Pike from 1911 to 1943, when it was destroyed by fire.
Description	A woman holds a young girl on a carousel horse at Shoreline Village in Long Beach, August 1985.
Subject	Women. Children. Merry-go-rounds. Merry-go-round horses. Long Beach (Calif.).
Coverage	1981; 1982; 1983; 1984; 1985; 1986; 1987; 1988; 1989; 1990
Format	Photographic color slides
Rights	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/Inc/1.0
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection