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Carnival season is up and running

CarnivalMidways.Com — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:45:31 +0000

By WENDI WINTERS, For the Maryland Gazette The air is crisp, redolent with nose-tingling aromas that beckon. An endless blur of bright lights and the reverberating sounds of delighted screams and shrieks of laughter electrify the night sky. You are at the carnival. It’s time to relax and have some old fashioned summertime fun. Perhaps [...]

Safety Considerations for Operating Amusement Rides

CarnivalMidways.Com — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:44:53 +0000

Source: Yourfirstserver.com The amusement ride operator/attendant has full control on most rides and must be proactive and capable of reacting quickly to situations as they arise. The safety record of the amusement ride industry has greatly improved as a result of inspections, ride maintenance, safe operations and better ride designs, and ride operators/attendants play an [...]

More Shows Added

CarnivalMidways.Com — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:52:27 +0000

New Shows added this time around are: Modern Midways out of Illinois, D & R Shows out of Ohio, Carnival Americana out of Texas, IndianaHead Shows out of Wisconsin and Carter Shows out of Ontario,Canada. Thanks for your patients those of you who’ve been waiting over a month, it’s been a long spring. Share this [...]

Corn-dog pizza? When it’s the Minnesota State Fair, why not?

CarnivalMidways.Com — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:46:50 +0000

Source: By Tad Vezner – Pioneer Press There’s only one thing to say about the tasty amalgamation of corn dogs and pizza. “It kind of makes sense; it brings two classics together,” said Dennis Larson, the Minnesota State Fair official who signs off on new food at the Fair. And the corn-dog-topped pizza, which will [...]

Games Galore inks contract with Murphy Brothers

CarnivalMidways.Com — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:26:04 +0000

Source: Tracy Frank – INFORUM Games Galore of Fargo has signed an extended contract with Oklahoma-based Murphy Brothers Carnival to provide inflatable games at carnivals throughout the United States. This is a big opportunity for the Fargo company, which opened in 2006, said owner Dave Lerud. “It’s a huge contract for Games Galore because it [...]

Life is a carnival

CarnivalMidways.Com — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:39:45 +0000

Source: John Nickerson – Stamford Advocate Carrying 6-by-6-inch blocks of wood in the searing sun while setting up the Grecian Festival on Newfield Avenue, Robby Roberts wasn’t about to let the heat get him down. Just a year into his gypsy-like odyssey as a carnival employee — “Carny” is a fightin’ word except amongst and [...]

On the road: He grew up in family’s traveling carnival, and now he runs it

CarnivalMidways.Com — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:39:09 +0000

Source: STEPHANIE JONES – The Journal Times When Ronald Kedrowicz was 1, his parents bought a giant octopus ride. The next year they bought a trolley train and a kiddy Ferris wheel. By the time Kedrowicz, who goes by “Chip,” was 7, his family had enough rides that they started their own traveling carnival. That [...]

Carnival ride a century ago

CarnivalMidways.Com — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:27:58 +0000

Source:Margaret Caldwell – The Desert Valley Times Today I’ll write about my past — when I was really, really young. Our family had finally left the farm and moved to the small town of Ashley, Minnesota. My mother was trying to sell books by Billy Sunday and my father was not settled on what he [...]

Carnival Rides = Summer Fun

CarnivalMidways.Com — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:35:49 +0000

Source: By Chris Kaltenbach – The Baltimore Sun Traveling carnivals take their midway rides on the road, delighting the kid in everyone Karen Weber has spent some 15 years helping to run the spring carnival at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Essex. She knows what brings in the crowds — and it isn’t the [...]

Freaktown USA Fights to Stay Freaky

CarnivalMidways.Com — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:29:31 +0000

Source: AOL News What good is a roadside attraction if it can’t sit along the side of the road? That’s the problem Gibsonton, Fla. — better known as Freaktown USA — is facing. The town that was once home to the Monkey Girl, the Alligator Skinned Man and Lobster Boy is trying to preserve the [...]