Saturday, August 06, 2011

1941 Ringling Performers #12

The 1941 Norman Bel Geddes-designed midway, which by all accounts, was quite spectacular at night. According to Joe Bradbury, many of the Bel Geddes innovations were too cumbersome to load onto the train, and had to moved overland via a fleet of semi-trucks, which was referred to as the “Fifth Unit.”

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Posted by Buckles at 8/06/2011 05:47:00 AM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The RBBB front end probably looked like what visitors to railroad carnivals and world's fair midways had been experiencing in the 1930s.

06 August, 2011 09:13
Eric said...

Norman Bel Geddes had scored a triumph with his "World of Tomorrow" designs for the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair. Most of the innovations he came up with for the 1941 Ringling Circus did not prove to be practical for touring, and were soon abandoned.

06 August, 2011 11:44

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