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Next up on the photo roll: the Silver Lake Beach, which we visited on a gorgeously warm October day, because the climate is broken. But, great beach day. You're going to see it all.
Here's what brought us to that beach rather than any of the many others on Lake Michigan: the Silver Beach Carousel building. And what's inside?
Just a second. What's outside is a bunch of chalk art and some cornhole boards and stuff. Fun things.
But yes, what's inside is a Carousel Works carousel that we've been on before, like fifteen years ago, and enjoyed. Here's the seahorse underneath a rounding board that acknowledges there were people here before white guys moved in and hailed them a taxi.
Some more of the animals; the bear is the mascot of one of the regional schools. And yeah, that's a little tiger on the innermost row.
Huh, a Michigan State horse, wonder how that got here. Also you can see this is October because of all the skeletons.
It isn't just college mascots; nearby Benton Harbor's tigers get some representation, with a saddle that's nice and dramatically chained on.
There's peacock chariots, which I believe is something golden-age-of carousels also sometimes had. Also check out how they decorated the black horse for ... uh ... the University of Michigan Headless Horsemen?
In back of the building, though closed off which is why the pictures have that shot-through-glass haze, was a play area with toy appliances and a design-your-own-kitchen thing; Whirlpool has its world headquarters in the area.
I would like to ride through that 'The Squeeze' roller thing.
They've got a Herschell-Spillman organ and we were happy to hear it playing since a couple weeks later we got in a conversation with someone who was quite sure it was inactive.
They also had a lovely little elaborate model train setup, some with homemade gear, some with store-bought.
Didn't remember the Bates Motal had a skull gazebo, did you? Now you know.
Trivia: Until the 19th century the primary thing the word ``lozenge'' described was the diamond shape of the thing rather than its medicinal content. Source: Sweets: A History of Temptation, Tim Richardson.
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