Tuesday, April 21, 2015

The Big Cage! #4


Posted by Buckles at 4/21/2015 06:45:00 AM

3 comments:

Dick Flint said...

Looks like Capt. Eddy Kuhn

21 April, 2015 12:45
Ole Whitey said...

Right. Eddy's arena was made from some kind of pre-fab rebar from Army surplus as I recall. I think they used the sections in pouring the concrete for landing strips. Somebody jump in if you know more.

21 April, 2015 13:40
Roger Smith said...

It's Captain Eddie. These props are seen in the background in the recent eye-catching shot of Vicki Cristiani Rossi. Eddie's mesh is used in concrete work, but is a different configuration than we had in Thousand Oaks. Ours was 1/4" stock in a 2" x 2" layout, flash-welded, and known as "fused fabric". Louis Goebel bought it as war surplus, bringing in 10,000 6' x 12' sheets @ $1 each. All our cage fronts, and the front screen for the Big Stage Arena were made of them. In the islands, during the Pacific war, these were not used with concrete. They were laid down by the Seabees, wired together, and our planes landed directly on the screen. Each landing mashed the layers into the sand, and new layers were added quickly between landings. Over there, they were called landing mats. This material proved ideal for wild animal work.

21 April, 2015 15:55

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