The Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks approved a purchase of the Griffith Park Merry-Go-Round for $1 million.

For nearly a century, the historic carousel entertained riders at Griffith Park until it broke down. The city of LA wants to ...

The Griffith Park Merry-Go-Round will soon whirl and twirl again after years of sitting shuttered and sad. The city just ...

The city of Los Angeles got in touch with its inner child on Thursday, Aug. 21 when its Department of Recreation and Parks ...

Los Angeles officials will vote Thursday on whether to buy Griffith Park’s 99-year-old carousel for $1M — or risk seeing the beloved, historic ride sold and removed.

Sponsor Message And he’s gonna need it- because this merry-go-round gets up to 200 miles an hour (or so he expects). Maykel holds on tight and sits up straight as the carousel takes off.

A merry-go-round stored at Minden’s Pioneer Village didn’t look so merry after spending 20 years in storage, but fortunately, ...

Did you know that today, July 25, is National Merry-Go-Round Day? In honor of this, this morning on The Rhode Show Brendan Kirby headed to the Crescent Park Looff Carousel to learn more about this ...

Most people have a favorite ride when they go to theme parks. Some love the thrill of a rollercoaster while others enjoy the ...

The borough received the merry-go-round, and a parking lot on the northern end of the boardwalk — between Sampson and Carteret avenues — where the carousel house was built.

While the exact origins of the merry-go-round -- or carousel -- are lost, William Schneider of Davenport, Iowa, is credited with inventing the device in America on this day in 1871.