Friday, December 22, 2017

#5 Digney Pix!


3 comments:

Chic Silber said...


That red & white Calabana skirting

totally transformed that old Garden

Roger Smith said...

Hubert Castle used these striped panels on most buildings, calling them "hockey dashers". They did add something to the over-all flash of the show, especially in those dreary small-town hockey rinks we played, when we set up on top of heavy timbers they laid over the ice.

Chic Silber said...


Hockey Dasher Boards are the waist high

hard panel walls surrounding the rink

Most often they have upper hard plastics

Intended to both protect the enthusiasts

as well as keep them from joining melees

The skirts in question were of either in

canvas or a vinyl from the Astrup Company

wrongly called Calabana (almost correct)

Working over an ice sheet mostly through

Canada but also in US arenas when their

local teams made the Stanley Cup playoffs

Some years in "The Garden" the show went

up & down several times (very unpleasant)

Part of my decision to leave Big Bertha

was their purchase of the 3 big ice shows

long before the renting of Disney titles