Notable Uses
- Used to notable effect in the Gehry Residence by Frank Gehry
- Wrestling steel cage matches
- Backstops used in baseball and softball fields
- Before the advent of gravel trap in the later half of the 1980s, chain-link fencing was used as catch fences in racetracks to slow out-of-control cars down before they impact barriers. In the 2000s they continued to be used at American dirt tracks.
- Many parks in London were fitted with chain-link fencing during the Second world war when the original iron and steel railings were removed for the war effort (Though many are now being replaced).
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Famous quotes containing the word notable:
“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“a notable prince that was called King John;
And he ruled England with main and with might,
For he did great wrong, and maintained little right.”
—Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 2–4)