Based on the enormous smiling faces at Luna Park, Melbourne and Steeplechase Park in the United
States, Luna Park's 9-metre (30 ft) wide smiling Face, as well as its flanking towers, have
presided over the main entrance for almost all of the park's 70-year history. There have been eight
distinct faces: installed in 1935, 1938, 1939, 1946, 1950, 1973, 1982, and 1994. The seventh Face
was donated to the Powerhouse Museum in May 1994. The eighth and current Face, completed in 1994
and carved from polyurethane, is based on Arthur Barton's 1950 "Old King Cole" version.