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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Wallenda Requests Approval To Walk On Wire Over U.S. 41

Nik Wallenda hopes to walk in Sarasota from the Marina Tower building toward the Unconditional Surrender statue on Jan. 29.

Sarasota officials will have to do their own balancing act Tuesday night to help expedite approval of a request by Nik Wallenda to cross U.S. 41 on a highwire.  Wallenda will formally make the request in front of the City Commission during the evening session, begging at 6 p.m., at City Hall to gain city approval for the daredevil act that will feature a high wire 500-600 feet long.  If approved, the projected stunt date is Tuesday, Jan. 29. Diagrams of the walk show the high wire running from Marina Tower on the corner of Cocoanut and Gulf Stream avenues, over Bayfront Drive, and ending near the Unconditional Surrender statue on Island Park Drive. Wallenda last crossed Sarasota on a tightrope in 2010 between the One Watergate condo …

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Circus Sarsota Big Top and Ed Smith Stadium

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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Wallenda To Walk The Wire Over Baltimore's Inner Harbor

As a warmup to his Niagara Falls tightrope walk, Sarasota's Nik Wallenda will walk the wire over Baltimore's Inner Harbor.

Usually when a Wire and Baltimore are mentioned in the same breath, you think of a semi-fictional underground television series, but Sarasota's Nik Wallenda's walk over Charm City's Inner Harbor is real. Wallenda plans to walk across the Inner Harbor on Wednesday as a tune-up for his June 15 Niagara Falls tightrope walk, The Baltimore Sun reports. The event is to coincide with a Ripley's Believe or Not Odditorium slated to open at the Inner Harbor's Harborplace, the paper reports. The walk will be 300 feet long and 90 feet high, while his great-grandfather Karl Wallenda walked over the Inner Harbor in 1973 over 600 feet of wire 30 feet high, The Baltimore Sun reports. Wallenda told The Baltimore Sun his Inner Harbor walk is a way to honor …

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Wallenda To Walk Niagara Falls Tightrope June 15

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