European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday june 16, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 3 a amps Joseph Owen pvt. 2 John Kendrick Center hangs onto ropes attached to a giant inflatable Gate in Karlsruhe. Soldiers of cod 78th engr in blew up the Gate for a City Celebration. Gis help artist town prepare for big Blowout by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Karlsruhe West Germany a just to get the weekend off to a Good Start 13 soldiers of cod 78th engr in blew up a City Gate Friday morning. Karlsruhe City officials watched approvingly As did Vera Simons the artist who had designed the Gate. Pedestrians stopped to gawk. When it was Over All Karlsruhe had lost were a few Square Yards of vacant pavement. And it had gained an unusual piece of artwork. The Gate is an inflatable re creation of the City a Ettlinger Gate which stood at the same site from 1796 to 1873. And the soldiers helped the Gates builder world famous balloonist de Yost blow it up. The Parthenon like temporary Structure is one of Many devices the City is using to celebrate its 275th birthday this weekend. Joachim Marz a spokesman for the Karlsruhe based Kreutler telecommunications company estimated that his company other sponsors the City the army and Simons put about $ 150,000 Worth of materials and labor into the project. Simons has been designing inflatable sculptures since 1965, and not just on the ground. The Austin Texas resident who holds the women a record for consecutive time aloft in a balloon also has pursued her Muse in flight. She originated four a Ida Vinci balloon flights 1974 to 1979 that combined artistic design with a scientific purpose tracking the Drift atmosphere. Of pollution in the Public to  the 12-column Structure will be hard Simons executed a similar architect to miss. Its 70 feet Long 36 feet High Tural project in Edinburgh Scotland in and 18 feet wide and sits on an Over 1986, re creating the National gallery a pass at one of Karlsruhe a busiest inter Central Wing and mounting it atop that very building. The Ettlinger Gate Marks the first time she has re created a Structure that once existed but no longer does. A this is taking career risks in a very big Way a Simons said As the gradually expanding sculpture lurched groggily upward. A a it a right out there for the sections the Ettlinger Gate Square. At night it will be illuminated by lights planted inside the bases of the columns. Marz said his company is marketing a Booklet depicting Simonsj other work to raise funds to reimburse the artist for her Gate project which took 1 la years to plan. The sculpture faces East and West corresponding to the bulk of traffic flow but is perpendicular to the orientation of the original Gate a partially wooden Structure that was crumbling badly before its demolition in 1873. Yost who grabbed headlines in 1976 with a nearly successful attempt to Cross the Atlantic Ocean in a balloon manufactured Simonsj Gate at his balloon Assembly Plant in Vadito . He said the two 1-horsepower motors used to inflate the Gate would run night and Day to keep it that Way until it is dismantled sept. 30. Simons a amps Joseph Owen curious passers by and soldiers Survey the re creation of the Ettlinger Gate which stood at the same site from 1796 to 1873