Comments on: Balloons on Helmet Make Targets for Cavalry Combat (Jul, 1931) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/04/30/balloons-on-helmet-make-targets-for-cavalry-combat/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:56:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: darren http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/04/30/balloons-on-helmet-make-targets-for-cavalry-combat/comment-page-1/#comment-1082450 darren Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:20:07 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7681#comment-1082450 I can't see any safety issues here. I can’t see any safety issues here.

]]> By: WolfCloud http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/04/30/balloons-on-helmet-make-targets-for-cavalry-combat/comment-page-1/#comment-1079542 WolfCloud Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:45:42 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7681#comment-1079542 I went to Urban in the 1950s at thet time we had several movie star's kids. Lex Barker's son Zan, Ed Wynns grandson, Efren zymbles son, & several noted medal of honor recipients sons. Most of my class were in Vietnam myself included. Very good memories from Urban. I don't think many are alive. I heard that alot were KIA in Nam. I use to try to keep track but it is impossible now & there is not much info about this great school. I went to Urban in the 1950s at thet time we had several movie star’s kids. Lex Barker’s son Zan, Ed Wynns grandson, Efren zymbles son, & several noted medal of honor recipients sons. Most of my class were in Vietnam myself included. Very good memories from Urban. I don’t think many are alive. I heard that alot were KIA in Nam. I use to try to keep track but it is impossible now & there is not much info about this great school.

]]> By: Harry http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/04/30/balloons-on-helmet-make-targets-for-cavalry-combat/comment-page-1/#comment-1067721 Harry Fri, 01 May 2009 20:29:30 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7681#comment-1067721 I wish I'd gone to school there. I always lost boardroom sword fights. I wish I’d gone to school there. I always lost boardroom sword fights.

]]> By: Firebrand38 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/04/30/balloons-on-helmet-make-targets-for-cavalry-combat/comment-page-1/#comment-1067697 Firebrand38 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:25:24 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7681#comment-1067697 Good catch! I see that the property then became the Black-Foxe Military Institute which included Gene Wilder as a student! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-Foxe_Military_Institute http://www.bfmi.org/history.html Good catch! I see that the property then became the Black-Foxe Military Institute which included Gene Wilder as a student! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B....._Institute

http://www.bfmi.org/history.html

]]> By: StanFlouride http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/04/30/balloons-on-helmet-make-targets-for-cavalry-combat/comment-page-1/#comment-1067691 StanFlouride Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:00:29 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7681#comment-1067691 From wikipedia: Urban Military Academy was a boarding and day school in Hollywood, California, for boys between the ages of six and fifteen, founded in 1905 by Mary McDonnell (on Melrose Avenue at Wilcox; it later moved to 11600 Beverly Blvd.) and at the time it opened "the only private school for boys in the City." Its commandant was Major Harry Lee Black, who in 1928 helped found Black-Foxe Military Institute on Urban's original site. Among its well-known students were Jackie Coogan? (Uncle Fester!), John Coleman Burroughs (son of Edgar Rice Burroughs), and (70s TV writer- including ST TOS) John Meredyth Lucas. From wikipedia:
Urban Military Academy was a boarding and day school in Hollywood, California, for boys between the ages of six and fifteen, founded in 1905 by Mary McDonnell (on Melrose Avenue at Wilcox; it later moved to 11600 Beverly Blvd.) and at the time it opened “the only private school for boys in the City.” Its commandant was Major Harry Lee Black, who in 1928 helped found Black-Foxe Military Institute on Urban’s original site.

Among its well-known students were Jackie Coogan? (Uncle Fester!), John Coleman Burroughs (son of Edgar Rice Burroughs), and (70s TV writer- including ST TOS) John Meredyth Lucas.

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