20/06/2023
Carinvals! 🎟 🎡 🎠🍦They pop up in mall parking lots and local parks — and summer wouldn't be the same without them. We love carnivals for their swirled puffs of cotton candy, powdered sugar-coated funnel cake, stomach-turning spinning rides🎢 and photo-finish water gun races. In North Jersey, they haven't changed much over the years, but sure is fun to look back on them. See more carnival photos at our .
Captions:
1. Bright lights spark the landscape at a carnival sponsored for the benefit of the Paramus Boys Club at the Bergen Mall in Paramus, N.J., on July 28, 1964. 📸 Shelly Matson
2. Bill Nuss, 13, takes a direct hit from Betsy Tapp, 8, at the sponge-throwing booth at the Center Recreation Fair Day in Fair Lawn, N.J., on August 11, 1965. Bill DeSantis, 12, who is next, looks worried. 📸 James Ferraro
3. It was a great night for a carnival, and people came to Waldwick, N.J., by the hundreds to take advantage of the opportunity presented by the Lions Club on July 18, 1966. Profits from the carnival will go toward several charities in the West Bergen area. 📸 Al Paglione
4. The more daring youngsters ride the spinning, turning Round-Up ride at the Upper Saddle River Fire Department's annual carnival in Upper Saddle River on July 8, 1968. 📸 Tim Manning
5. Frank McHale and Jeryl Huber of Dumont get a spectacular view of the carnival the Community Center for mental Health is sponsoring at the Columbia Avenue field in Dumont on May 19, 1969. 📸 Al Paglione
