During the 1952 holiday season Stanford resident and retired farmer Herman Glaser displayed several of his personally designed and built mechanical toys on his porch, including this working 32-inch Ferris wheel. There was also a merry-go-round (visible to the right of Glaser’s head) and a yet-to-be-completed revolving Christmas tree.Herman Glaser passed away in the spring of 1978 at the age of 89.