Carnival & Fair News

At Fountain City Amusements in St. Louis, Missouri, owner Joe Sutton has an optimistic outlook for 2019. While Fountain City has not purchased new rides for the season, he’s been busy in the off-season refurbishing existing rides. “We’ve put a new LED light package on our Skymaster, and thoroughly refurbished my Ferris Wheel. 96 lights on each spoke. We took everything down and repainted from bare metal,” he relates.  Sutton says that while his season hasn’t started yet for this year, he’s fully booked, with his own shows booked for six months in Missouri and Illinois, “All within a 200-mile radius of St. Louis,” he notes. Prior to that he books rides with others in the Texas and Arkansas area, including Laredo, Brownsville, and Beaumont. In the fall season he goes to Louisiana and ...   [read more]

Chuck Wheeler of Amusement Wraps showcased new products and concepts at the 2019 IISF Trade Show in Gibsonton, Florida held February 5th-8th. While Wheeler has the same products available that current customers love, this year has been one of exploration and new opportunities for the company. New this year, Amusement Wraps purchased a CNC Router which can be used to cut out shapes and signs for Marquees or photo-op cutouts. At his booth in Gibtown, Wheeler displayed an exciting new innovation in cut-out photo opportunities that was tested at the South Florida Fair and Florida State Fair for Wade Shows. “Also with the CNC Router we're doing ride packages for the Wisdom Orient Express and Dragon Wagon. We're making the panel replacements for the top/front of the ride to fit the dimensions already on the ride,” says Wheeler. ...   [read more]