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22 comments:
Karen!
I don't believe you have given us a report on the Cole show which you and Billy visited recently. (If you did post something, I must have overlooked it.) We'd love to hear about it...
Ok Rebecca, Fair is Fair! When will you thrill us all with the new you? You've already seen, Buckles, Mr. Herriott, Karen and myself this week. Gary has been waiting for a while now.
Bob
The picture was so ugly Buckles threw it away. It would have scared the elephants right off these pages. You are very lucky as you would have lost your morning 7 a m coffee
When the Ringlings arrived in the Big Time the youngest brother, John, immediately started handling his affairs out of New York City referring to to the natives of his home town as Baraboobians.
I read in one of the Ringling bios that when young men, Charlie and John would frequent the better bordellos in Chicaco. In a day of more refinement the indelicate matter of discussing the fee was not done. A roll of bills was simply slipped under the ladies garter.
These scoundrels however practiced the policy of "tishing the ladies" by wrapping a dollar bill around a wad of tissue paper.
I have a question? Is the Bob Cline the same that was referred to as Dirty Neck Bobby Cline?
I also remember Head Down Harry!
I would like to know exactly who this John Cuneo is? I know he has some kind of connection with Hawthorn elephants and tigers, leopards. His family owned a big publishing company or still does Owns a lot of animals and leases them out or hires someone to work them in different circuses and gets paid part of the income? He is from a very rich family and seems like he is just getting richer, but I see trouble on the internet with a lot of his animals and he is always in trouble with his elephants (citations and them being taken away). So, what gives on him? Does he really own the animals? How does he own so many and keep track of them, when so many people take different ones out on different shows to work? Do the people that keep and travel and work with them buy them from him? I heard he even has some in Europe working?
Hi Gary,
Karen is exactly correct in her bio of myself. Fred Logan actually had two gentleman named Bobby Cline working for him for a few years, but I was neither of those. One of Fred Logan's guys might have been the one that worked with you however. I really don't know for sure.
Bob
Female in tennis shoes.
John Cuneo is the most brilliant business man today. Just look how he handled those animal wrong people for ten years to think they were getting the best of him. He let them play into his own hands. Way to go!!! Makes me proud to call him friend.
High Beams. You don't need that sweet tea. You are sweet enough. Wish our paths had crossed more over the years. You make me forget how much older I am then you. We could make the good old boys ears ring. Circus men are so great. I only met one that I disliked very much and you know who that is. There is not a finer bunch of people on this earth than animal trainers, helpers, pooper scoopers, etc.
Anonymous, Why are you playing so DUMB? Just search the inter net and you will find all the untrue things you are asking about As if you did not know already. Are you would not be asking here on the circus blog.
Anyone serious about digging into John Cuneo's background might also check into the endowments he awards each year on behalf of the underpriviledged.
Roger, Do you still have that picture of me in the doorway? It would be perfect for the blog. Can anyone scan it for you? Then scan to Buckles. What do you think?
The home that John Cuneo grew up in libertyville, IL, is now a museum. His father owned Hawthorn Melody Dairy Farms, which was adjacent to the home and had a large collection of carriges.John Cuneo, Jr. named his animal corporation Hawthorn Corporation.
The family home is now As a "living museum," the building and gardens preserve in vivid detail the flavor of an era and a way of life. The grand spaces of the Venetian style architecture, filled with antique furnishings and artwork and the quiet paths through the manicured grounds allow the visitor to savor the elegant splendor of the "gilded age." The Cuneo mansion is one of the few surviving manor homes from the early 20th century settlement of gentleman farmers in the fields south of Libertyville, which included Joseph Medill Patterson of the Tribune and Adlai Stevenson, the presidential candidate. Now surrounded by busy suburban development, the museum is a magnificent relic of the domestic opulence and rustic retreat of that former period.
It is also a personal legacy of the families who lived in the home. Samuel Insull, founder of the Commonwealth Edison Company, had the home built for his family in 1914. John Cuneo, Sr. purchased the mansion in 1937 after the collapse of the Insull utility empire. Mr. Cuneo was best known as the founder of the Cuneo Press and Hawthorn Mellody Dairy. The mansion remained the family home until the death of Mrs. Cuneo in 1990. Certain features of the home reflect aspects of the owners' personal interests. Mr. Insull had the landscaper include a small grassy stage between a classical colonnade, so that his wife Gladys, an actress before her marriage, could perform for their dinner guests. A devout Roman Catholic, John Cuneo, Sr. obtained permission through his friend, Cardinal Stritch, to convert a sun porch into a consecrated chapel with magnificent stained glass windows and ceiling murals of the stations of the cross. The histories of the people who shaped the mansion, the collections and the grounds are told on the guided, room by room tours of the building.
The Cuneo Museum is also an art museum. In fact, the building itself is a work of art, housing an art gallery within. The mansion was designed by prominent architect Benjamin Marshall, builder of the Edgewater Beach and Drake Hotels in Chicago. The grounds were laid out by famous prairie style landscaper, Jens Jensen. Inside the museum is filled with a variety of objects of great beauty from different periods and countries and in different media. The paintings, porcelain, silver, tapestries, statues and furnishings are the result of a lifetime of discriminating collecting by Mr. Cuneo and his family.
Some years ago I was clicking thru the
TV Channels when John's face flahsed by. I went back and found Mr. Cuneo leading a camera crew thru the Estate mentioned on a program called "America's Castles"
When they entered the bedroom that John had as a child you could see bars on the windows. He explained that after the Lindburgh kidnapping this was commonplace among the wealthy.
Also on that program it was mentioned that the bulk of the Cuneo fortune came from publishing and shipping Sears & Roebuck catalogs to rural America. Sort of the Home Shopping Club of the day.
I might add that later these catalogs served as an indespensible conveience outhouse-wise.
Karen, a couple of years ago Mr and Mrs Cuneo made a substantial donation to Loyala Health Systems -Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL. They are generous donors.
So, the Hamid Circus with other names and associates has been around for a very long time. I was not sure of that. Thanks for clearing this up. I am trying to play catch up on this blog and found this interesting. Thanks, Annie
And, how is Freddie Logan doing now? I must not have read back far enough to find out what happened to him. What did? I assume he was already retired by this time? How old would he be? I saw him working the elephants years ago and he was something else. A nice man to talk to as well. Thanks, Annie
Just wanted to say that I have only been to the circus about six times and to Circus World in Fl. one time. After seeing the last four shows all in April of 06 I have to say that from the Hamid Circus to the Cole Brothers Circus and a few in between, nothing compares so far to the Hamid Show. I wanted to see Carson & Barnes but they don't tour to my area of the country, At least not close enough for me to drive to in one day.
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