Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Singer Shows late 1920's or early 30's


These are some unrelated pictures I'll send to tidy things up.
I'm not familiar with this show at all but anyone who has ever been with a mud show will appreciate it. How many times have you been showing some God awful part of the country and have this happen? Someone has taken down the arrows or you are following a truck that blew the arrows or they can't find the lot or there is no lot or worst of all a shake down.

Posted by Buckles at 12/14/2005 07:01:00 AM

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think I blew the arrows again today. Just like a stupid first of May. If I have I'll throw a fit. And DR is going to s%#@^. If I have blown the arrows again today. I made this up and sang it going down the road once when I got lost, as I usually did.

14 December, 2005 10:51
Anonymous said...

Blowing the arrows is one of those universals. A friend of mine is so awful with arrows and route sheets, he uses Mapquest and GPS as a "backup." As far as I can tell, most days he gets three times as lost as he did before

14 December, 2005 13:24
Anonymous said...

On the Hoxie show naturally the show moved early, Franco Richards' wife would sleep in and come later. Enroute she had an accident, she told the police she had to notify her husband who was with the circus, when they asked where the circus was she had no idea. She just followed the arrows.

14 December, 2005 19:46
Bob Cline said...

Hi group,
I remember my aunt & Uncle telling of being on a show in the 1940's and someone turned the arrows as the show was moving. Part of the show ended up in one town and part of the show ended up in some farmer's cornfield. I've blown the arrows myself also but not because somebody tore them down. I got some directions that can't be repeated also.
Bob

14 December, 2005 20:02
Buckles said...

The man who put up the arrows was called the "24 hour man" since he was 24 hours ahead of the show. He had to make sure everyone had arrived before routing the show out of town since it was possible to pick up the exit arrows before you got to the lot.
Luke Anderson told me that on his show (Wallace & Clark) he slept late to make sure everyone was ahead. The boss canvasman Enoch Brafford drove the stake driver. Luke said he awoke one morning to a bizarre sound and looked out his trailer window to see Enoch re-driving the stakes. He had left the lot and somehow managed to pick up the wrong arrows and was back on the same lot he had just left.
I can remember when they used to draw the arrows with chalk. We had a 24 hour man with Robbins Bros. named Ben Thomas who for some unexplicible reason would, on occasion, draw the arrow in the shape of a phallic symbol pointing the way.

14 December, 2005 22:57
Anonymous said...

I looked that word up Buckles. No more Larry Flint for you young man. VERY INTERESTING as the little German on Laugh In used to say

16 December, 2005 13:37

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