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| 3635-41 Germantown Ave. Phila. (Google Street View Map) |
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| Phila. Geo History 1910 Bromley Map |
Property in back is now a parking lot on Elder Street.
There is the
lost Hunting Park Carousel, something I rode on as a child, that the city sold off in 1967 rather than preserve
a unique part of Philly industrial history.
The people
who write history books say that the factory was in Germantown. Just south of Erie and Broad and above W
Venango, not too sure if that is Germantown.
Germantown Avenue starts way near downtown and not everywhere along that
street is Germantown. Whatever.
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| Portable Fair Carrousell by Dentzel circa 1895 |
Entertainment
in America used to be seasonal in many aspects of the some industries. Gustav Dentzel took his portable carousell
out on the road to street fairs and state fairs as a cash flow asset to carry
the factory business back in Philly.
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| Advertisement - Billboard - April 1910 |
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