Tuesday, September 26, 2006

The Herriott Family #1 (Jim Cole collection)


A hushed audience, attending the 99th Edition of the Greatest Show on Earth, watches in abject terror as Col. John Herriott attempts and will no doubt accomplish, the dreaded "Kiss of Death!".

Posted by Buckles at 9/26/2006 06:57:00 AM

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

As I remember the stage hands walked three dromedaries through spec, I was a stage hand at that time but I never let one loose. They did drag me around a lot, and Humphrey soaked me with all sorts of her body fluids.

26 September, 2006 10:05
Anonymous said...

How very silly to turn loose another persons valuable trained animals. It take a lot of money and time to present performing animals in the circus. Someones sense of humor leaves much to be desired.

26 September, 2006 18:22
Anonymous said...

Many of the stage hands were attracted to Circus World because of the theatrical show, I remember the mix of theater folks and circus folks was more than a little uncomfortable until after the beer started to flow at HoJo’s. The joke was that sometimes the wimpiest stage hands were picked to walk the camels, and these karate kicking, hopping, bellowing, tongue inflating, slobbering, smelly, loveable creatures were sometimes too much for us silly looking long hair hippies in our black jump suits and blue hard hats. And on a few occasions they got loose. I had a shillelagh that I found worked better to scratch that hard to reach spot of the belly than it did to tap their sore neck, so maybe that's why my dromedary didn’t give me too much drama.

26 September, 2006 21:52
GaryHill said...

Dutchess, Circus World was the home of run away animals! The first day I came back from Great Adventure in N.J., Jewell New had a run away lion named Reggie and guest who ran him down and caught him by his tail? Good thing the sand in the backyard at CW was deep! Also ,I have scars on my left hand from Mike and Janice Aria's bear Chloe, that ran from them. And then there was Bonnie the African that liked to run from Mike too? Humm maybe there was something about Mike? Just kidding Mike was a Top Hand, God Rest His Soul!

26 September, 2006 21:53
Anonymous said...

Those were the days when going to the circus was fun.

27 September, 2006 10:42
Anonymous said...

Remember when Jewel had his mock show rehearsal and one cat hit the cage and the top ring that held the cables broke, the cage fell, and lions where running a muck around the theater. I missed this event but got there when the last of the cats made it back into the safety of their shoots. That bearded shop guy “what’s his name” was the hero by charging the front of the cage screaming and backing up several cats before they left the ring.

And one day someone left the petting zoo door open and about thirty little goats, sheep, and dear where just wandering around behind the elephant ride. The drill was no sudden moves and get hands full of sweet feed.

27 September, 2006 12:33
GaryHill said...

When they had the opening of the Zoomarang ride, they had Anna May and Buckles doing the honors. About the same time one of the emu's from the petting zoo escaped and was running amuck though the crowd,with me chasing it.Finally caught it and had to carry it back though the guests and Anna May wasn't too fond of it.

27 September, 2006 16:56
Anonymous said...

Once upon a time at Circus World I went to the park during a have time show at the Supper Bowl. On the way back to my truck, I walked past a deserted security booth and spotted a walkie talkie. I took it and went back to the Super Bowl party at Edge Hill while talking on it and posing as a guard on this radio. First someone on the radio asked the score, and I answered, and it went from there. The emu’s were regularly getting loose, and at the party we all had great fun making the security gaurds run around the park looking for run away emus. Well this lasted less than a minute because coming from the radio everyone at the party heard “Little John if you get that radio back in five minutes you won’t get into any trouble.”

27 September, 2006 19:35

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