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Carnivals

Posted inArt

A VR Archive for the Vanishing Haunted House Ride

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 28, 2016September 28, 2016

“Like pinball and computer games, it’s hard to get people to take ghost trains seriously, but they aren’t just important, they are disappearing,” Joel Zika, creator of the Dark Ride Project, told Hyperallergic.

Posted inArt

The Hand-Painted Ghouls and Specters of Mid-20th-Century Carnival Ghost Trains

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 1, 2016September 2, 2016

Almost all carnivals traveling the circuits in the United States and Great Britain in the 1940s and ’50s towed their own haunted railroad.

Posted inArt

Carnival Rides Spun into Abstraction

by Laura C. Mallonee August 21, 2015August 21, 2015

You haven’t really seen a ferris wheel until you’ve seen one photographed by Roger Vail.

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