Buckles Blog: Dana Montana Horse Show #4

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Anonymous said...: I am not sure what Johnny Zoppe named this when it was completed. During construction, it was named "My headache". Wade Burck; 17 November, 2007 08:38
J. Merrick Walker said...: Just a technical question.

Is this the true or "original" Dancing Waters out of New York City or is this the much later
type of presentation that came along later and was known as Waltzing Waters which was a knock off much cheaper
and smaller operation out of Florida?

I worked with Dancing Waters years ago in the 60's and it was always a much much larger presentation or effect
than that pictured here.

Waltzing Waters was built for much smaller installation and was much more "overnight" portable than Dancing Waters.

Dancing Waters had many more effects and was a lot more dazzling.
Dancing Waters could also be set up in a cut down model but usually they went after the big locations.
Think Big Top here with a small lot and leaving out one of the middles.

At one time there was a lot of litigation over the patent infringement thing.

Jon
"just an old time AEA retired Actor who has always been a big circus fan; 19 November, 2007 08:13

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