Herschell Ideal Two-Abreast Carousel (Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Carousel)
El Paso County
This circa 1925, two-abreast, half-and-half, carousel was manufactured by the Allan Herschell Company and arrived at the zoo in 1937.
Herschell Ideal Two-Abreast Carousel (Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Carousel)
It is an example of the county fair style carousel--a simple, hard-working, portable machine. The horses, constructed of carved wooden heads and bodies with aluminum legs, are an early example of the impending shift in carousel figure manufacturing away from carved wood to cast aluminum.