
Ferris Wheel, Vienna, 1943 | via gerda-kay
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Ferris Wheel, Vienna, 1943 | via gerda-kay

Séeberger Frères [Louis, Jules and Henri] :: Promenade en voiture tirée par une autruche / Ride in an ostrich drawn carriage,
Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 1901-1925 / source: Twitter

Health and safety? That’s a new thing. Three thoroughly modern girls in their swimming costumes go for a human pyramid while riding on Wilfred and Squeak, two donkeys, on the beach at Ramsgate, Kent in the 1920’s. (Photo: Mary Evans Picture Library) / src: The Mirror

Blue Streak Racer Roller Coaster, Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, CA, 1929. This rollercoaster was demolished in 1930. / via

Grete Stern :: Dream No. 3: Untitled, 1949 / source: MoMA via The New Yorker
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Hanging Chairs, amusement ride at Hampstead Fair, London, August 1923 (Topical Press Agency / Getty Images) / src: ilpost.it

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caption: 5722 – Famous trotting ostrich ‘Oliver W’ –harnessed for a spin–record of 2.02–Jacksonville, Florida. Copyright 1905 by Underwood and Underwood
source: Depth and Time

Abbas :: Young man and three veiled girls in motorbike. Shahr Rey, Iran, 1997
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