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The Riverfront Park Carrousel, also known as the Looff Carrousel and the Natatorium Park Carousel, is a carousel in Spokane, Washington built in 1909 by Charles I. D. Looff as a gift for Looff's daughter Emma Vogel and her husband Louis Vogel, who owned Natatorium Park in Spokane. [1] It remained at Natatorium Park until 1968 when the park closed.
The Christmas Bureau will once again take place at the Spokane County Fair and Expo Center, 404 N. Havana Street, from Dec. 7-14, excluding Sunday, Dec. 10. ... the red and white elephant that ...
White Elephant organizers could play the "dice game" variation, which incorporates a pair of die and a rules sheet created by the gift organizer. In this variation, players can select their ...
A white elephant at the Amarapura Palace in 1855. A white elephant is a possession that its owner cannot dispose of without extreme difficulty, and whose cost, particularly that of maintenance, is out of proportion to its usefulness. In modern usage, it is a metaphor used to describe an object, construction project, scheme, business venture ...
White Elephant, Dirty Santa, Yankee Swap. It's the Christmas gift exchange that goes by a hundred names, with thousands of different rules that vary family to family.
A white elephant gift exchange, [1] Yankee swap [2] or Dirty Santa [3] [nb 1] is a party game where amusing and impractical gifts are exchanged during Christmas festivities. The goal of a white elephant gift exchange is to entertain party-goers rather than to give or acquire a genuinely valuable or highly sought-after item. [ 3 ]
White elephant parties are the wild west of gift exchanges – where chaos reigns and social boundaries crumble faster than holiday cookies. These aren't your grandma's predictable presents. We're ...
White elephant sales are typically organized by non-profit organizations such as churches and schools to raise money for a charity cause or a special occasion like Easter or Mother's Day. They operate in a manner similar to many non-profit thrift shops. Members or friends of the organization holding the white elephant sale will donate old items ...