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Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Alfred Court!

Chic Silber said...: Court's arena sections had his

signature top curved spreaders

Very easily identified; 26 December, 2017 11:55
Chic Silber said...: I'm not a big fan of these pedestals; 26 December, 2017 14:10
Roger Smith said...: Court's arena sections also featured the X-cross pieces at the bottom. Things were very different then, when acts could get this variety of any animals they wanted. If Frank Buck brought a lot in, so did less illustrious dealers, like Trefflich, Zeehandler, and Dietch, on the Eastern seaboard, and the perennial Compound of Louis Goebel out West. Trainers and circus owners had little more to do than wait for their orders to be filled.

Then, we all got notice from the Department of Agriculture that Congress had mandated animal regulation laws be written and enacted, and since they didn't know what to do with this, we'd better tell them what to set down. I was among the many who went to Washington, D.C. for the big first meeting. I contributed 15 pages of suggestions, along with those of others, to what became the Animal Welfare Act of 1970. This was only the beginning of government regulations, and life for us was never the same again--was it?; 26 December, 2017 17:38
Chic Silber said...: Those curved spreaders also

gave the sections a measure

of additional triangulation; 26 December, 2017 18:21

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