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Old-time Kiddie Rides
in Jackson Heights, Queens

all images by Carole Terwilliger Meyers

During my many visits to Jackson Heights in Queens, New York City, I’ve discovered some wonderful old-time kiddie rides outside shops.  They wait patiently for someone to insert a few quarters for a ride.  Sometimes it is a very long wait.  The rides include horses, a dinosaur, and an elephant. 

I’ve discovered that these artifacts from the past exist in other neighborhoods, too, and in many other places around the United States.  So I also have a yellow elephant from Manhattan’s Chinatown, a taxi from the Santa Monica Pier in Southern California, and a quarter horse from Amarillo, Texas.

Old-time Kiddie Rides Around the Rest of
the United States