Monday, October 14, 2013

From Mike Naughton #1



RBBB Clown College alumnus Jeff Darnell's photo of the Venice Arena just a day or two ago.

Posted by Buckles at 10/14/2013 06:40:00 AM

3 comments:

4pawfan said...

Does anybody know if all these steel trusses came from the sail loft building (former Sarasota winter quarters) building. Or also from the other buildings there. (the main building frame looks about the size of the original shop building)
It looks like the roof trusses from the sail loft were used to make the side roof extensions. (bolted to the main rectangle structure) The solf loft was the former grandstand at the county fairgrounds. The county gave the fairgrounds to the circus if they would move the circus there from Bridgeport, Conn. During the 20's-30's-40's, the circus winterquarters was the biggest draw in the state. p.j.

14 October, 2013 12:03
Chic Silber said...


I was told that the structure was

pieced together from 3 different

Sarasota WQ buildings by Lloyd Sr

whose sister married Felder Houser

that ran the County Fair Ass. for

many years & was involved in the

contruction of Robarts Arena

14 October, 2013 22:02
4pawfan said...

Thanks Chic for the information. The frame work in front of the rectangle building is the train shed from Sarasota with the quonset type roof.
p.j.

15 October, 2013 10:10

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