Cedar Point Carousel memories

I was just looking at the Carousel page at the Cedar Point web site. For some reason this made me think of an ice cream Sunday. Then it hit me. I would always eat a frozen custard prior to riding one of the carousels. I suppose it may have been the location of the custard stands of the fact that they are slow rides (perfect for after a frozen custard). It also seems that most of my greatest memories have been from the Carousels. My first ride at Cedar Point was the carrousel, me and my first girlfriend's first ride together was on the carousel, and me and my family always rode the carousel together. That was the only ride we ever rode together.

Does the Cedar Point carousels spark any memories or nostalgia for you guys?

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2001 park line up:

Las Vegas Jan. 3rd-7th
(other parks N/A as of Dec. 28th)

The ONLY memory I have of the carousel was the night my name got picked out of a hat and I was forced off Raptor to operate Cedar Downs and the carousel. It was HORRID. If I had to hear that generic carousel music one more hour I was going to go crazy. I can say I made my own fun by telling people "welcome aboard Raptor or Magnum"
of course NO one was listening anyway but I thought it was pretty funny.
The most annoying thing? "PLEASE NOTICE THAT THE OUTSIDE HORSES DO NOT GO UP AND DOWN"
Despite this being said 3x before starting the ride, people still got po'd when the ride started because THE OUTSIDE HORSES DO NOT GO UP AND DOWN.
I lucked out though for the rest of my weekends working there I got to stay on my beloved bird of prey.
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Thank you for riding the Midway Carousel and enjoy the rest of your evening here at Cedar Point Americas Roller Coast

I agree, running Cedar Downs/Midway Carousel can be less than adventurous, but I did like it for a bit. A slower pace can be welcome some days! When I was a sweep toward the end of August we always had to have someone from our crew cover with the Cedar Downs crew.

My best carousel memory, I guess, would be cleaning it before the park opened in '97. We had to scrape the grime off and shine the whole stinking thing, and believe me, those poles aren't easy to polish when you don't have enough brass cleaner! We ran out, and they never did get us any more so for the rest of the season it was only half done. Not that anyone noticed, since we'd already gotten the middle parts of all the poles - the tops were filthy.

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