Sunday, September 20, 2009

Hempstead L.I., NY 1967 (From Jim Cole)


Hempstead L.I., NY 1967 - Copy, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

3 comments:

Jimmy Cole said...

This is the cannon of Hugo Zacchini II, who is now retired living in Tampa. During this Hempstead date, Hugo, who was also a flyer was injured when he bounced out of the flying act net on to the concrete floor. A younger member of the flying act filled in doing the cannon for the remainder of the date.

Chic Silber said...

This is "Island Garden Arena"

that I mentioned a few days ago

You can see the big permanent

grandstand on the right that

is running crosswise taking up

a full half of the floor space

The bleachers on the left were

portable and could be placed in

different positions as needed

Both of the old wooden arenas

(Commack & West Hempstead) are

long ago gone

Chic Silber said...

That's a mighty classy ring curb