Very early in the 1941 tour, the giraffes were exhibited on a Norman Bel Geddes-designed platform, consisting of about 12 pie-shaped boxes fitted together to form an island about 20 feet across and about 4 feet high. Proving to be too much trouble to erect and tear down on a daily basis, it was abandoned almost immediately and shipped back to winter quarters. |
Thursday, May 20, 2010
1941 RBBB (Set 2) #4
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Norman Bel Geddes also designed a "monkey mountain" for the menagerie: a scaled down version of the one that Frank Buck had used at the 1939 New York World's Fair to exhibit his troop of monkeys. This might actually have been built and used at the first stand or two under canvas, but the task of having to round up the monkeys and get them back into their cages when packing up made the monkey mountain idea unworkable.
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