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B BettyBleu Member Island Oasis Backyard (So Cal) Joined: Jun 20, 2003 Posts: 225	B BettyBleu Posted posted on Mon, Jun 12, 2006 11:13 AM On 2006-06-10 08:00, Tangaroa wrote: Betty - Can you give me some more information on the architectural renderings of the Banana Train ride? Were they blueprints, or conceptual paintings? The original exhibition (called Fantasy Islands: Landscaping Long Beach's Oil Platforms) was organized by Kurt Helfrich, Curator of the Architecture and Design Collection at the University Art Museum at UC Santa Barbara. They hold the Joseph H. Linesh archive. I checked with Kurt about the exhibition and the archive but he responded that ... "unfortunately there are only construction slides for the South Sea Boat Ride that Joe Linesch helped design for the Pacific Ocean Park project while working with Morgan Evans. No working drawings have survived." The upcoming exhibition, Fantasy Islands, opening at the University Art Museum at Cal State Long Beach in late August, has two of the construction images: Pacific Ocean Park South Sea Island Ride: Aerial View and Ocean Park South Sea Island Ride: Detail Tahitian Gate (both iris print mounted on gator foam, 16 x 24). The brochure mentions only a bit about the P.O.P ... [excerpt] Completed in 1958 as part of a multi-million dollar renovation, the Pacific Ocean Park Pier featured a banana boat train and included a specially designed Tahitian gateway set amid elaborate tropical plants with animated monkeys, an erupting volcanic crater and a tropical storm accompanied by lightning and thunder as atmospheric effects. [ Edited by: BettyBleu 2006-06-12 11:25 ]

On 2006-06-10 08:00, Tangaroa wrote:
Betty -

Can you give me some more information on the architectural renderings of the Banana Train ride? Were they blueprints, or conceptual paintings?

The original exhibition (called Fantasy Islands: Landscaping Long Beach's Oil Platforms) was organized by Kurt Helfrich, Curator of the Architecture and Design Collection at the University Art Museum at UC Santa Barbara. They hold the Joseph H. Linesh archive. I checked with Kurt about the exhibition and the archive but he responded that ... "unfortunately there are only construction slides for the South Sea Boat Ride that Joe Linesch helped design for the Pacific Ocean Park project while working with Morgan Evans. No working drawings have survived."

The upcoming exhibition, Fantasy Islands, opening at the University Art Museum at Cal State Long Beach in late August, has two of the construction images: Pacific Ocean Park South Sea Island Ride: Aerial View and Ocean Park South Sea Island Ride: Detail Tahitian Gate (both iris print mounted on gator foam, 16 x 24). The brochure mentions only a bit about the P.O.P ... [excerpt] Completed in 1958 as part of a multi-million dollar renovation, the Pacific Ocean Park Pier featured a banana boat train and included a specially designed Tahitian gateway set amid elaborate tropical plants with animated monkeys, an erupting volcanic crater and a tropical storm accompanied by lightning and thunder as atmospheric effects.

[ Edited by: BettyBleu 2006-06-12 11:25 ]

Post #237424 by BettyBleu on Mon, Jun 12, 2006 11:13 AM