Bingo Hauser: Trading Fur for Iron Bingo Hauser: Trading Fur for Iron North American Carnival Museum and Archives
Bingo’s grandson, Robbie, designed this mini donut stand. The stand was manufactured by Uniglide Trailer.
Pretzels is one of the many classic carnival treats West Coast Amusements serves, other treats include but are not limited to shaved ice cream, cotton candy, candied apples, […]
This is one of the West Coast Amusements’ newest additions to their Kiddieland.
This is a modern version of the Rotor ride. Still the same concept, riders go inside and are stuck to the wall from centrifugal force.
This ride is an extreme version of the classic Chair-O-Plane ride.
“This is kind of a peculiar story, but one of the big snakes that dad got arrived dead. What are you going to do? You got to put […]
One of the earlier Ferris wheels belonging to West Coast Amusements, part of the transition from fur to iron.
“The big reason for the animals, getting out of that, there was more and more zoos coming into being, and then television, then the public just wasn’t paying […]
Bingo is here having fun with one of the games set up during the early days of West Coast Amusements, a spinning wheel betting game.
This is one of WCA’s very first rides.
“The first ride that dad got was little carousel (a cute little merry-go-round). They started small with the rides, gradually added onto to the rides. Then along came […]
A sparse amount of people around this 1960s carnival. This is from around the time carnival shows had to change to keep the public’s interest.
