Thursday, November 30, 2006

Cole & Waltes Circus #8



Cole & Walters Circus on the lot in Mabank, Texas 4/4/52
Ross McKay's pit show at left at the head of the midway. the side show/menagerie in the center and the push-pole big top in the background at the far right. Posted by Picasa

Posted by Buckles at 11/30/2006 05:26:00 AM

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mabank Texas, isn't that the present home of James and Christine Plunket? I think Laura Herriott lives there also.

30 November, 2006 07:21
Anonymous said...

During our Gil Gray days we always enjoyed visiting Herb's show while making a jump. Herb would sit it a lawn chair in street clothes and announce the show in his homespun manner. Then towads the end of the show the handsome Mrs. Walters all niceley dressed with hat, stockings and heels would go thru the seats with a cluster of ballons. They would always go between shows to a local small town restaurant to eat and we joined them at times. The whole show seemed a laid back casual operation. Nice people.

30 November, 2006 09:11
Anonymous said...

Yes it is and Weiner and Laura do their shopping close by in Gun Barrel City. You cain't get anymore Texan than that if'n you go to Gopher and Termites headquarters of Cut and Shoot.

30 November, 2006 09:17
Anonymous said...

Heaven knows, this small-town Texas boy would have loved a season on a show like that.

30 November, 2006 16:38
GaryHill said...

Plunketts live just north of town. I live 8 miles south of south of them. Like alot of towns in other states they share borders so it goes, Mabank, GunBarrel City, Payne Springs. The Halls live outside of Kaufman about 20 minutes west.

01 December, 2006 10:06
Buckles said...

Where is Mule Shoe, Texas?
I showed there once.
My dad said there were two towns in Southern Texas named La Gloria and Falfurious (Heaven and Hell).

01 December, 2006 11:48
Anonymous said...

Muleshoe, Texas, is roughly 70 miles Northwest of Lubbock, in Bailey County, at the junction of US 70 and US 84.

Texas also boasts towns named Barnum, Bailey, Tarzan, Jane, and as Col. Herriott pointed out, Cut and Shoot, and Gun Barrel City. These barely get you started on quaint Texas towns' names.

While we're at it, look on your Texas map for Refugio, down south on US 77--and tell me how the natives pronounce the town's name.

01 December, 2006 17:25

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