Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Lords of the Lions #3


Fred C. Logan with the Al G. Kelly & Miller Bros. Circus.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is Great to see the late & great " Capt. Fred Logan " working with the Lions in this exelent photo .
Mr. Cole ; your photography & the collection is first-class & well appreciated.

Anonymous said...

Thank you, but I didn't take all these photos, including this one. This comes from a series of photos from the "My Weekley Reader Picture Series".

I sure hope their company attorneys aren't logged in !

Anonymous said...

Having started around Terrel Jacobs I think Freddy liked being a lion trainer and I remember visiting him and he had abroken foot a limped thru the cat act, elephants, etc. and still sold reserve seat ducats. A real show guy. Dory was fortunate to have him. I remember when we were on Beatty together and a towner approached us and asked if we had shown the day before and Freddy remarked "The band plays every day". That said it all.

Anonymous said...

In early 1969, I accompanied Bobby Gibbs on a trip that would get an young elephant to Mexico. On the way down from St. Louis we stopped in Hugo. We stopped by Fred's home and I was taken by all the photos of his lion act but didn't see any elephant pictures. I'm sure he had some pachyderm pics in addition to photos of Capt. Fred C. Logan's African Lions.

Anonymous said...

To Dan H: Thank you for the compliment, but again, not all the photos I send in, did I take. I am quite satisfied to share my photos through the CFA, and Buckles blog site. Right now am am kept fairly busy operating the Circus4Youth web site for the CFA, and would not want to take on any more by doing my own blog.

Anonymous said...

Didn't Freddie work with one of the Court acts as an assistant who would break up fights as the animals came down from the pyramids?

Buckles said...

He told me that he just moved the furniture around. He added that he and Bob Dover were hired the same day, he in the menagerie department and Dover on ring stock as a pony punk (1943).