Great to see a throw-back shot of Herta and her bear roller-skating. I saw this, but don't recall her skating on Art Concello's ugly rubber mats. CHIC can remind us if at first, these mats were laced together, right? Then, when the lacings presented problems, the show went to heavy industrial-strength tape. The tape eliminated trip hazards.
On the Castle show, in '72 and '73, we had heavy ring mats, very thick in grommeted wedge-shaped sections that were laced together. These lacings never laid well, and gave us threatening loops rising up that everyone had to pay attention to so we wouldn't fall. I hated them for the cat act, and had to watch every step to keep from getting a boot under a loop. Many of us went to Castle about the mats, but he thought he had an invention to top those of Art Concello and Cap Curtis.
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The late Herta Klauser (Cuneo)
was known for many of her early
performing years as "Goldilocks"
Great to see a throw-back shot of Herta and her bear roller-skating. I saw this, but don't recall her skating on Art Concello's ugly rubber mats. CHIC can remind us if at first, these mats were laced together, right? Then, when the lacings presented problems, the show went to heavy industrial-strength tape. The tape eliminated trip hazards.
On the Castle show, in '72 and '73, we had heavy ring mats, very thick in grommeted wedge-shaped sections that were laced together. These lacings never laid well, and gave us threatening loops rising up that everyone had to pay attention to so we wouldn't fall. I hated them for the cat act, and had to watch every step to keep from getting a boot under a loop. Many of us went to Castle about the mats, but he thought he had an invention to top those of Art Concello and Cap Curtis.
Yup on the lacing Roger as the older
stiff rubber when rolled repeatedly
curled along the edges grommets were
set to allow lacing that was hoped to
keep all the seams flat but wasn't
very effective except to provide
additional trip hazards as you said
The rubber wagons were the heaviest
of all & had additional wheels on
the axles to distribute the weight
Nasty stuff to attend to for all
The very best rubber was the poured
& cured in place for the 3 rings
on the Venice floor
After that we got long strips
of similar heavy Tartan for
the 2 units to travel with
Great stuff but heavier yet
Herta's (& her father's) bears
worked on plywood stages that
were set between the rings or
on plywood decking in the rings
similar to the bike acts
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