Friday, November 21, 2008

Sarasota Quarters 1954 #4


Scan10974, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Somewhere I saw an order placed by RBBB for thousands of yards of "heavy blue twill canvas". What a sight. What was the house seen to the right?

Anonymous said...

I can't imagine guying out this large top, with almost no tension.
I can only guess that there was little wind and no storms forecast for the coming days.
Bob Kitto

Anonymous said...

I believe that white bldg. was the wood working shop. They had a number of white service buildings in that area.

In Sarasota RBBB was careful to spread stuff around with big spaces in between given that the previous Bridgeport quarters were plagued with many fires.

This is likely the 1953 big top. I was there in 1953-54-55. In one of those years (’55 I think) they did a Sunday afternoon show in the big top instead of out in the open air arena next to the horse barns.