Monday, June 18, 2007

Circus Fans & Friends #6


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This undated picture of my dad with Doc and Mamie Capell was taken at the K-M quarters in Hugo.
When D.R. asked Doc what the nut on his circus was, he made the classic reply, "How the Hell should I know. I never made it yet!"

Posted by Buckles at 6/18/2007 05:53:00 AM

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Re: Doc Capell. In 2001 Raul Gomez, who was handling the elephant, Flora, producer David balding in St. Louis, married an attorney from Phoenix, under the Circus Flora tent. (Tino Wallenda assisted.) The newly-wed wife told me she had done some civil legal work for Doc Capell and his son, who operated a small amusement park near Phoenix. She said Doc had given her a collection of posters and other material from his Capell Bros. Carnival and probably from the circus which his sister operated. After his sister's death, he combined the carnival and circus for several seasons before going out of business. The reason I remember Capell is that it wintered at the site of old WW2 POW camp in North McAlester, Oklahoma, where I grew up (about 65 miles north of Hugo).

18 June, 2007 14:34
Anonymous said...

Doc Capell was around KM in those years in the forties. He would take out a circus for a number of yeaRS CALLED AMONG OTHER NAMES cAPELL bROS. It seems to me that he had a son Bob who ran the circus. It was certainly one of those high weed mud shows right out of Miller family style.

18 June, 2007 16:56
John Dock Capell said...

my husband is John Dock Capell IV. Dock Capell is his granddads uncle or brother. Do you know?

10 September, 2007 14:57
littlebittucker said...

Doc Capell is My great gradfather on the maternal side. He had three son. William (Bill) who still resides in Phoenix with his wife Dorothy, Jack who is deceased, and Robert (Bob) my grandfather who is also deceased. He was married to Norma and they had one daughter, Terry Jean, who is my mother. We still operate a carnival and are very proud of our heritage.

Christy Tucker

27 May, 2008 21:36
Bill Capell said...

Doc Capell was my Dad's (Harry Capell) Uncle. My name is Bill Capell We attended a tent circus with wild animals (I seem to remember the elephant,) and rides in Tonganoxie, Kansas around 1950, my Dad had a 1950 Buick at the time. My family has always lived in KCMO, where I am retired from the KCMOPD. I play trombone in local bands, and yes I even played for the Barnum and Bailey Circus.

29 March, 2009 08:28
chris johnson said...

please help us find any info for the parents or relitves of blacky, possibly from Canada possibly adopted, . Mamie was mentioned, Tex was mentioned by him and Doc ,James Charles Goodsen was my wife's dad, his nickname was blacky because he repaired the rides and was full of grease, but he also ran some of the rides he was married to a woman who died in Mich with her son, and he was married to a woman from Oshkosh Wisconsin who had TB, then left her while he was working at a bar in Jackson Mississippi,he loved to gamble, then he married my wife's mom in 1964 they met in Tucson AZ,he worked for the capell from 1958 in fayettsvill ark to about 1980 , that we know of by research but he might of worked there before that he might even be related to the capell bro we don't know we don't know any thing about him please help

24 May, 2009 02:01
chris johnson said...

regarding blacky please attach this to other posts regarding doc capell and james charles goodsen our email is badassclassiccars@hotmail.com and our phone is 801 -638-9195

24 May, 2009 02:12

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