Thursday, May 17, 2012

LEINERT SIEGE GUN (From Chic Silber)

LEINERT by bucklesw1
LEINERT, a photo by bucklesw1 on Flickr.

Hi Buckles
An early cannon by Lienert.

Posted by Buckles at 5/17/2012 06:00:00 AM

8 comments:

Buckles said...

Chic, do you suppose he used a net?
He looks pretty well padded.

17 May, 2012 06:07
Chic Silber said...

No idea of the intended landing

Not a very graceful flyer without

outstreched arms for some control

I really like the trigger cord

(how bout the Pogo cannon)

17 May, 2012 09:33
Chic Silber said...

Jumpin Joe Gerlach an Olympic high

diving champion that defected from

Hungary in the 60s did a Sponge

Plunge into a vinyl enclosed pack

of large foam scraps 1 year in

Puerto Rico from a tethered hot

air balloon (airostat) that was

roughly 200 feet in the air

It was the last year of Jimmy

Harrington's Circo Panamericano

outdoors in Hiram Bithorn stadium

just before the opening of the

new Coliseo Roberto Clemente where

the show then played indoors

17 May, 2012 11:00
Chic Silber said...

What did Johnny "Geronimo" Jordan

dive into & wasn't he set aflame

17 May, 2012 11:02
Chic Silber said...

Where's the photo of the "Not My

Chicken" clown cannon Buckles

17 May, 2012 11:03
Little John said...

Could be a dummy, not the guy pulling the cord the one in the air looking for Annette.

17 May, 2012 13:08
klsdad said...

I can't forget..
I was thrilled by "the heat
of Bailey's Comet"??.. a few years back on Ringling.. at the Garden.
(Yes.. my tongue is in my cheek..and embarassed with the "fizzle" when introducing two
friends to my circus passion!!)
We think we may still have the burns!!!!

klsdad

17 May, 2012 13:32
Chic Silber said...

Unless you mean stupid Little John

I don't think the man in the air

is a sandbag or manequin

17 May, 2012 18:43

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