Buckles Blog: Dora Franklin photos #6

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

hangin thing 2, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Anonymous said...: Is this a moving track?; 26 May, 2009 16:42
Chic Silber said...: The track was stationery and it

was attached to the old flying

frame but the carriers (wheels)

were tied together with spreaders

and had the cycles as drive units

and the aerial points attached

so that the entire group moved

at the same time

A similar track was installed in

both of the Circus Circus joints

in Reno and Glitter Gulch

I think the designer's name was

Andre Prince (or something); 26 May, 2009 18:02
Anonymous said...: If I remember correctly, Andre Prince was married to a performer in the Alzana (Davis) family. (Possibly Harold Alzana's sister.)
He himself was a performer.
When I met him, he was the entertainment director at Circus Circus in Vegas. --- ToddP; 27 May, 2009 20:56
Jack Ryan said...: Hilda Davis, Harold Alzana's sister was married to Andre Prince. She worked the act with him on Ringling in 1968, the Hildalys.; 27 May, 2009 21:57

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