Monday, January 23, 2012

Big Eli


At the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, W.E. Sullivan, owner of the Eli Bridge Company in this town, was fascinated by the original ferris wheel. His first “Big Eli” made its debut in Jacksonville’s Central Park in 1900.  This family-owned business still makes carnival rides over a hundred years later.

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