Thursday, October 14, 2010

Sarasota, Florida--1953

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

are these Rix bears?

Wade G. Burck said...

Thomas,
I think they were part of the Court mixed act with the lions and tigers.
Wade

Ryan Easley said...

How was this designed, Wade? It looks like the permiter inside the first barred fence has animals, and then individual stalls inside for single animals a piece divded by steel and fencing. Can you provide any insight?

Wade G. Burck said...

Radar,
I don't know. We will just have to wait for Richard Reynold's go get here and school us on how it was constructed. But you can bet it had nothing to do with "creature comfort."
Wade

Richard Reynolds said...

Howard Tibbals told me that the bars for this bear cage were made from the truss rods under the old wooden flat cars which were discontinued after the 1928 season. So happened that I made my first visit to the ‘Sota quarters this same spring - -1953.