Thursday, July 20, 2006

Al G. Barnes 1925 blow down aftermath #1


More Tobias Tyler pictures, this time in Sunburst, Montana on July 19, while the big top was being repaired.
This must be Bobby Todd whom we saw pictures of earlier in the 1930 Barnes Program. As you can see a horse presentation is working in the next ring.
The steel arena looks in pretty good shape considering the beating it must have taken in the blow down.

Posted by Buckles at 7/20/2006 02:17:00 PM

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

It would be interesting to know what those cougars are looking at- you'd think they would be watching all those horses in the opposite direction...or watching Bobby!

20 July, 2006 16:54
GaryHill said...

Was it Bobby Todd or Bobbie Todd?

20 July, 2006 22:11
Buckles said...

The program said Bobby but I think they meant Bobbie.

20 July, 2006 22:18
Anonymous said...

During our raging thunderstorm yesterday, this didn't make it onto the site. As I was saying:

This is a Red Forbes arena. Benny Bennett said it took six men and a good boy to carry one section of this pig-iron cage. The side, top and bottom framing was of channel iron. The spreaders--those horizontal pieces through which holes were drilled for the bars--as you see, were curved over at the sides and bolted onto the frames. Sort of crude in a way, but nothing Forbes made was ever known to break. If you have photos of Mabel Stark's arena at Jungleland, comparison shows that if it wasn't this very arena, it unmistakably came from the hands of Red Forbes.

21 July, 2006 15:20

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