Way back on September 27th , 1986 , the metropolis of Cleveland was taken over by 1.5 million He - filled balloons . The photos are amazing . The aftermath was not . Tom Holowach , the project director ofBalloonfest ’ 86 , popped by Kinja to say hello , and has kindly offered to answer all your questions about the event . The sky ’s the limit , hoi polloi !
For a refresher course , take a flavour at theseunbelievable picswe posted this morning from photographerThom Sheridan .
Here‘s Holowach :
So we ’re taking him up on his World Wide Web chat offering . Here ’s a bit more about him :
I have been doing limited events logistics since about 1978 . I lived in Southern California then and the great unwashed were hurl a lot of money at PR stunts . I met Treb Heining in 1984 , just as he got the contract bridge for the 1984 Olympics Opening and Closing ceremonies . We had to plan the logistics of filling hundreds of balloon that made Olympian rings and then cheerleader moved them to write “ Welcome ” … and then countenance them go . After that , I worked on all Treb ’s bombastic events , including the 50th Anniversary of Disneyland in 1985 . We had to design a way to blow up a million balloon , put them in bags of 1000 , and then extend them out to the street . In Cleveland , they wanted to bring out them from one spot in front of Terminal Tower . I designed the metropolis - square pulley “ ABA transit number ” , got it redesigned to meet Cleveland edifice code for any structure , and designed and ordered the fabrication of a net that was a city block square . In 1990 , I caught the care of Disney , and crop at Disneyland Hotel and Park till 1995 . I have lived in Hawaii since 1998 and have been manager of a field of operations at a community college since 2001 .
Take it away , Kinja ! AskHawaiiTomanything .
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