Sunday, July 11, 2010

1970 RBBB Blue Show #13 (From Eric Beheim)


Ringling 100-52, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 7/11/2010 06:29:00 AM

6 comments:

Chic Silber said...

As I've mentioned before the very

1st thing I did for Big Bertha

was that mirrored ball for Charly

Those are also some of the early

version of track light boxes

11 July, 2010 09:31
Chic Silber said...

That 1st version of the mesh arena

was nasty as it was tough to lay

down into the ring curb due to the

square cable pattern

The 2nd version a few years later

Had all the cables starting out

parallel and becoming a diamond

pattern when pulled to tension

and not only packed much better

but held up for much longer

11 July, 2010 09:40
Chic Silber said...

I thought from the 2nd year on

Charly kept a black shroud on the

mirrored ball until it's use

11 July, 2010 09:43
jerry digney said...

this was one of the only editions of RBBB that i can remember that had decorative (vinyl) ring mats in all 3 rings with the show logo on them in place for the come in. I remember seeing them in the old Boston Garden, looked great.

11 July, 2010 13:43
Mike Naughton said...

Jerry,
Weren't those mats red, yellow and blue back ground?
I thought they looked great and made a big visual impact when you entered the arena.

11 July, 2010 16:37
john herriott said...

I recall those 1500 W quartz lights that were added to on the frames over the rings that we always [not me but everyone involved] referred to as the "Feld lights", I guess until thet put in that elaborate lighting scheme that I thought was too much and left too many shadows until finally they would go "full up" and seems that way now. Progress. I always felt funny in the ring in regard to that lighting in Japan. The old days in "Spots" were great.

11 July, 2010 17:25

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