Cycling/ Omnisport/ Equestrian/ Architecture.... - Lot 117 - Vermot et Associés

Cycling/ Omnisport/ Equestrian/ Architecture. To finally understand and discover the Vel'd'Hiv and the Palais des Sports, the great photographic reportage (silver prints, laminated) you've been waiting for. These 9 photos from 1949, including two exceptional panoramic ones, allow you to SEE the theater of joyous and terrible events (mythical Six Days, 1942 roundup), from the outside and inside (beams, inclined track, lamps, glass roof), which operated from 1910 to 1958. a) the tour begins at the Palais des Sports gate, under Scob's famous creation (the three facets of cycling), 22x17; b) the same entrance, with the added bonus of the 8 windows of the Bar du Vel'd'Hiv, with Bd de Grenelle, and rue Nelaton (2 panes). For the grandstands and trackside seats, it was via Grenelle (standing oblige). For the turns and bleachers, it was via Nélaton; c) the entrance to the Vel'd'Hiv, rue Nelaton side, gate no. 1 (17x23); d) sweepers roped up like mountaineers, please, clean the inclined turns or cliffs !!!! (19x17); e) M.Six Jours, alias Georges Berretrot (1891-1964). The divine bald man introduces a boxing or wrestling match with his unique voice (22x17). "Did you say atmosphere?"; f)overall view of the track (250m in wood) in its velodrome configuration, with the two pillars at the ends, the stands, the spotlights, and the advertisements, which jostle around L'Equipe (Vitalux, pompe Zéfal, la Meuse, BHV, Lefol, Vita).And above all, the glass roof... The glass ceiling pierced 100 times a night during the 6 Jours ("only one hat, but a Sools"; "all that glitters is not gold, but to glitter, Jantes Record") (16x73, photo in five perfectly adjusted panes); g) Mr.Grundwald, the manager, in his office, on the telephone, with boxing paint on the wall (16x22); h) in the bar, at the counter, with boxing decoration (16x22); i) another exceptional overall view of the interior, the track in its equestrian configuration, precisely for the chevel nights of October 1949, with two large grandstands on the track, and three on the central "lawn" (idem, fold-out in five panes, 16x67). The glass roof was there, but not the smoke of the big nights, and the 17,000 spectators were feverish...