Bingo Hauser: Trading Fur for Iron Bingo Hauser: Trading Fur for Iron North American Carnival Museum and Archives
Close up of black and white photo of an infant’s face. Bingo Hauser was born on October 17th 1926 in Warsaw Poland. His family emigrated to Brandon Manitoba when […]
This is an early example of a West Coast Amusements midway.
Stuffed animal toys like the ones seen in this picture were more typical by this time, and are commonly found at carnivals today.
In this photo Bingo is driving this large vehicle to haul Christmas trees during the off-season, a way of earning money when there was no revenue from the […]
This ‘V Liner’ truck was Bingo and Jackie’s first vehicle to haul the amusement rides. The V liner had a 549 international engine.
West Coast Amusements started with the classic rides like the Ferris wheel and carousel, and then added more thrill rides like the Loop-O-Plane and the Scrambler.
See early carousel belonging to West Coast Amusements, the start of what eventually would be the largest carnival midway in Western Canada.
A Loop-O-Plane ride set up at a West Coast Amusements carnival.
“He had ‘Pick Till You Win’, was his favourite, and then he just expanded to the milk bottle, the cat rack. He had a partner, his best buddy […]
One of the earlier Ferris wheels belonging to West Coast Amusements, part of the transition from fur to iron.
“The animals that went to the Calgary Zoo, it was the big alligator and it was in a big box that looked like a coffin, and there was […]
“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 […]
