The children’s classic carousel, a fixture of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor for 36 years, has vanished, the victim of poor location and changing patterns of tourism and entertainment.

Charm City Carousel Entertainment, which installed the latest animal menagerie merry-go-round, removed the structure earlier this month, leaving an empty wood-chipped circle where rain was pooling this morning.

Laurie Schwartz, president of the Waterfront Partnership, confirmed that the attraction was unable to lure enough customers to survive.

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