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 ...

The Tilt-A-Whirl has been providing thrills at carnivals and fairs for nearly a century. The iconic amusement park ride was invented by a Faribault woodworker in 1926. More than 1,000 Tilt-A-Whirls ...

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 ...

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 ...

TULSA -- Hundreds of people at the Tulsa State Fair are stopping to watch Sarah Pratt carve a tilt-a-whirl out of butter. This is Pratt and her husband's first time at the fair in Tulsa. Originally ...