Description
At Coney Island, boardwalks, amusement parks, carnivals, county fairs and festivals around the globe, thrilling Ferris wheels whirl through the sky. This is an award winning pop up card design.
Messages:
- Happy Birthday. Another trip around the sun!
- Big Wheel keeps on turnin’.
- Enjoy life’s up and downs.
- Enjoy the view from the top.
- Do more of what makes you happy.
- Love your life.
- Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels!
- Fasten your seat belt, we’re going on a ride!
- And so the adventure begins.
- My soul is in the sky. ~William Shakespeare
- Don’t worry, be happy. ~Bobby McFerrin
- Round and Round and Round we go,
where the fun stops nobody knows!
History:
The Ferris wheel was America’s answer to the Eiffel Tower.
In 1890 George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., a 33-year-old bridge builder and engineer from Pittsburgh whose company was inspecting the steel used by the Chicago World’s Fair, had a brainstorm for an amusement ride that could carry almost 1500 people at a time. He quickly sketched a huge revolving steel bicycle wheel. He spent $25,000 of his own money on safety studies, hired more engineers, and recruited investors.
More than 100,000 parts went into Ferris’ wheel, notably an 89,320-pound axle that had to be hoisted onto two towers 140 feet in the air. Launched on June 21, 1893, it was a glorious success. Over the next 19 weeks, more than 1.4 million people paid 50 cents for a 20-minute ride and access to an aerial panorama few had ever beheld. “It is an indescribable sensation,” wrote a reporter named Robert Graves, “that of revolving through such a vast orbit in a bird cage.”
Who is it for?
Give this card to a friend, family, a historian or engineer, to celebrate a relationship, the start of a new adventure, marriage, new job, new home, travel, for a birthday, a second marriage, a divorce, a new business, a fresh start, a revolution.
See also: Fairground Ferris Wheel.
