MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Think about some of your earliest childhood memories, and chances are they were spent on a carnival ride -- maybe even on a Tilt-A-Whirl. About 70 million people ride a ...

Summer is fair and carnival season across the U.S. After a meal of corn dogs, funnel cake and cotton candy, Americans pay to be spun, flung and flipped upside down. For nearly a century, the ...

On April 24, 1926, Herbert W. Sellner filed an application with the United States Patent Office for an “Amusement Device” designed for parks and resorts. Herbert Sellner was born in Faribault in 1887.

FARIBAULT, Minn. - Herbert Sellner invented the Tilt-A-Whirl in his Faribault home in 1926 before opening Sellner Manufacturing the following year.At noon on Thursday, July 13, about 90 years after ...

So you come to us at the close of day, our tired spinning platforms sputtered down to a low idle, no longer moving, all seven seats empty, axles heated from the day’s labor, seat cushions littered ...

BREMERTON — The families of children who were injured on the Tilt-A-Whirl at the Kitsap County Fair in 2018 are suing the owner of the amusement company that operated the ride at the fair’s carnival ...

Just up from the Toss-a-Ball kiosk, a man named Zion was discussing the best ways to burst balloons with a hacky sack. “You kind of just have to throw it right at the balloon,” he explained to a ...

Three families whose children were injured on the Tilt-A-Whirl at the Kitsap County Fair in 2018 are suing the owner of the amusement company that operated the ride at the fair's carnival and its ...