Hi All, Elk City, Oklahoma, has a new carousel in a new building.
This town raised something like $800,000 for this project.

A California company built the new electric powered carousel.  It
operates very smoothly and makes no sound at all.  The canned band
organ music can barely be heard.  The carousel itself looks like it
could have been constructed out of Home Depot, the local body shop and
a little help from a machinist.  The quality of the work is very good.

With its plastic figures, smooth starts and stops and noiseless
operation, it has none of the charm of the old ones.  I loved the
jerky starts, noise and music of the old gasoline powered machines
that came to my home town with the carnival once a year.

Jon Guy
Arnett, OK