Showing posts with label Ohio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ohio. Show all posts

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Pepsi Postcard and a Squished Penny

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Donia in South Dakota USA, likes vintage looking ads. Did I nail this one or what?!  She also LOVES squished pennies and said it would be AMAZING to get a penny along with the card. AMAZINGLY, I had squished pennies, too!! So, I taped one to the back of the card and mailed it off.  I had my doubts, but AMAZINGLY, it made it to her all in one piece!



Here's the penny.
It's from the historic Ohio State Reformatory, which is now a museum. A haunted museum. It's a happening place, with lots of tours, ghost events, private social events, banquets, etc. The day that I visited, there was an old-time baseball game being played out on the grounds, the teams were wearing vintage-type uniforms.
Parts of the movie, "The Shawshank Redemption", were filmed there.



Sunday, August 15, 2010

Richland Carrousel Park, Mansfield, Ohio



I visited here in July.
Richland Carrousel Park opened in 1991 as the first new, hand-carved carrousel to be built and operated in the US since the 1930s.







The flowers and landscaping were beautiful.































There are a total of 52 figures, 30 of which are horses......










......the remaining 22 are menagerie figures: 4 bears, 4 ostriches, 4 cats, 4 rabbits, a goat, giraffe, lion, tiger, zebra and a mythical hippocampus.