Monday, November 26, 2007

Dave Hoover semi 1982


+cbcb d hoover semi 4-82, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 11/26/2007 06:01:00 AM

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Actually, in 1982 the very front of that semi was my "home." Ned & I lived in that sleeper in 1981 & 1982. (Of course Ned lived in there for 16 years prior to that, as Hoovers head cage man!) The compartment was only 4'6" wide and8'long. We had Joe the welder hang the bed from the ceiling so we could have SOME floor space for our two dogs!!! plus,I had all the pieces/parts to the swinging ladders and finale costumes in there! I used to keep the headdress in the cab while we were on the lot, since it was a bodaciously huge feathery thing! I lived in there for two years! It was so small, because the other space at the front of the truck was the meat locker for the cats! Let the good times roll!!!
:-)
Cindy Potter

26 November, 2007 15:17
Anonymous said...

P.S. That looks like Chester resting on the ramp - a short-lived cage hand, and that's the meat cutting table next to the truck.
:-)
Cindy Potter

26 November, 2007 15:20
Anonymous said...

Right, Cindy. When I came on, for the glorious Winter Tour of 1980, I was dismayed to find there was no chopping block. How was I to cut the meat without one? I posed the question to Charlie Harris, and we came up with what you see here. I found the lumber around Winterquarters and sawed the boards in Charlie's shop. The end legs folded underneath so we could pack it up in the possum belly.

I lived in this sleeper for the Winter Tour, and back in quarters when we went broke and Jerry Collins ordered us to "bring that son-of-a-bitch home" when the building in Winston-Salem demanded $50,000 a day. This was the winter Florida froze, and I shivered away the nights with a tiny heater and a TV from one of the band guys. That winter "Hill Street Blues" debuted, and became a favorite of the guys in quarters. I could not have imagined then that one day I would work on the set of "Threat Matrix" with Charles Haid, Hill Street's Sgt. Renko, who went on to become a respected director.

26 November, 2007 16:34
Bob Cline said...

I believe I was told that the trailer end was one of the Beatty Cat Cage trailers with all the bars ripped out. and the trailer rebuilt for Dave's equipment. Is that right?
Bob

27 November, 2007 12:37
Anonymous said...

Bob-That's what I understood. that's why Hoover never wanted a "new" truck...

Rog-
That winter that Florida "froze," Ned & I were living in my van working at Baudy's. We were newly weds, so I don't remember it being that cold...
Hee hee!
:-)
CP

29 November, 2007 18:01

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