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| Description: | View from a stone bridge towards Vilas Park, with children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) and a kiddie train adjacent to the lagoon. |
| Date: | 04 03 1961 |
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| Description: | A young female cast member poses on a suspended merry-go-round horse as she watches a rehearsal of the musical show, "Carousel". |
| Date: | 07 03 1953 |
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| Description: | After Governor Kohler signed legislation legalizing the sale of caps and cap pistols, many youth prepared to celebrate the Independence Day holiday with th... |
| Date: | 07 02 1964 |
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| Description: | Three girls on the "Flying Coaster" carnival ride at the ESBMA festival on Kid's Day. |
| Date: | 07 02 1964 |
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| Description: | Four girls on the "Flying Coaster" carnival ride at the ESBMA festival on Kid's Day. |
| Date: | 06 22 1978 |
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| Description: | A boy enjoying an amusement ride on swings at the East Side Businessmen's Club carnival at Milwaukee Street and Fair Oaks Avenue. Other riders, carnival-go... |
| Date: | 06 1961 |
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| Description: | A young girl is enjoying a carnival ride at Peppermint Park. She is probably a daughter of Lewis Arms. |
| Date: | 06 1961 |
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| Description: | Mamie and Rita Arms, daughters of Lewis Arms, sharing a midway ride at Peppermint Park. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Four girls are sitting in a tilt-a-whirl amusement ride. In the background people are riding on a Ferris wheel. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two boys riding a ski lift high above a crowd of people and a stage below them a the bottom of a hill. The crowd is waiting for the musica... |
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| Description: | View of people riding the Kiddie Train at the Vilas Park Zoo. People behind the train are standing and watching the train near a fence, and there is a came... |
| Date: | 06 21 1958 |
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| Description: | Attending the grand opening of the Vilas Park merry-go-round are, (L-R): Lawrence H. Fitzpatrick, Wisconsin State Journal managing editor; Robert C.... |
| Date: | 06 21 1958 |
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| Description: | An unidentified boy enjoying his first ride on the new Vilas Park merry-go-round during the merry-go-round's grand opening. |
| Date: | 06 21 1958 |
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| Description: | Children and parents waiting their turn to ride the new Vilas Park merry-go-round during the grand-opening event for the ride on June 21, 1958. In the back... |
| Date: | 06 21 1958 |
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| Description: | Children ride horses on the new merry-go-round at Vilas Park. The grand opening for the merry-go-round occurred on June 21, 1958. |
| Date: | 06 21 1958 |
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| Description: | Two young girls having their first ride on the new merry-go-round at Vilas Park. The grand opening for the merry-go-round was held on June 21, 1958. |
| Date: | 06 21 1958 |
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| Description: | A young girl taking her first ride, with assistance from her father, on a horse on the new merry-go-round in Vilas Park. The grand opening for the merry-go... |
| Date: | 07 17 1958 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of children parading their cows at the Dane County Junior Fair. Judy Hurlbut (15), Route 2, Verona, won the grand championship steer... |
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