We built a day around the 10-mile ride down the Hozu, starting with a short train ride just outside the city and ending in the lovely neighborhood of Arashiyama. Guides pole fiberglass boats seating about 20 people through a deep gorge, where my 8-year-old son spotted turtles, snakes and other animals.
"From complete operational 100-year-old hand-carved carousels, to individual hand-carved antique horses and menagerie figures, there are only so many of theses antiques that remain." Horenberger concludes. "You can never build new antiques, but we are building three new carousels right now and two of them will be built the traditional way, the same as they were 100 years ago, with gear driven mechanisms, wood frames and with all of the animals hand-carved out of bass wood, one animal at a time."
As he clowns around for a photo shoot in front of the giant fiberglass animals adorning his restaurant compound off of tony Thonglor Road, Tan Passakornnatee is sporting vivid yellow pants and a polka-dot shirt, his customary style for addressing college students or business groups. Tan made one fortune, in real estate and wedding-photo studios, Dinosaur Fossil Replica Landscape in Museum and then lost it in the 1997 financial turmoil. He made another with Oishi and now he’s building a third.
I go back a long way with Gordmans Stores. When I was a little kid, the local Richman Gordman had a kids play area with these huge fiberglass animals that you could climb on/through, slide down, and otherwise amuse yourself with. The play area was always pretty full, Garden Ornament-Tyrannosaurus Skeleton and I think Richman Gordman was locally popular if for no other reason than mothers could do some shopping while their shrieking hellions amused themselves without bothering other shoppers.
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