The iconic Palisades Center Ferris wheel will celebrate its official reopening in a special ceremony Saturday, Jan. 18, after being closed for nearly five years. The Ferris wheel, which is ...

“Too fragile,” he said. Ferris was hardly the first to imagine such a wheel. In fact, a carpenter named William Somers was building 50-foot wooden wheels at Asbury Park, Atlantic City and ...

The giant tire was created for the 1964–65 New York World’s Fair, not as the 80-foot-tall billboard it is now, but as a Ferris wheel. It was originally part of a static design that featured a ...

As such, riders in each of its 36 air-conditioned gondolas get panoramic views of downtown Phoenix, the surrounding ... to ride the biggest and best Ferris wheel in town.