Workers move a gleaming carousel horse at the sale. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Dave Helm pushes a cart loaded with a miniature rhinestone-encrusted pewter carousel that he purchased at the sale. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Statuettes of Laurel and Hardy wait at the checkout table. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Danielle Ray watches the concrete Indian statue she bought being loaded onto a truck. She purchased the item for her business, the Venice Beach Freakshow. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Lonnie Lloyd, who was hired as a maintenance worker 31 years ago at Hurlbut Amusement Co. and became shop foreman, lifts a concrete Indian statue into a buyer’s truck. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
This bell was once featured on a Knott’s Berry Farm steam locomotive. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Diane Deckert ties down a nearly life-size replica of a mule that she and her husband purchased. She said she planned to tie it to the porch of her 97-year-old house in Orange. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Mike Bricker, an antique dealer from Tustin, loads an oil painting into his car. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
