| My father received these first four pictures from Bob Good many years ago. Probably taken while showing the fairgrounds in Allentown, Pa. The steam in the background looks like the calliope warming up. |
Friday, June 08, 2007
Hagenbeck-Wallace 1933-34 #1
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What great shots of a great pee-rade forming. Both a steam and an air cally, at least three bands and the old bell wagon, so there was plenty of music. I see the zebras and I wonder if any camels. Several nice 6-hitches.
Gordon Potter told me that on Hagenbeck-Wallace, there were two classes of cages: those that made parade and those that didn't. Beatty's working cats did not parade on this show, whereas on the Cole show with its smaller menagerie they did.
The Bell Wagon is on loan from Kenneth Feld to Circus World Museum, Baraboo.
We played a Sunday matinee-only in Allentown, in 1964, on June 21st. The Goods invited the Beattys for a feast fit for royalty. As the family chauffeur, I was honored and surprised to be included. Mr. Beatty's still-undiagnosed cancer had progressed so that he ate almost nothing of Mrs. Good's elegant banquet. A doctor had been summoned to give Mr. Beatty a massive shot of B-12, which he hoped would give him some needed energy, but no true effect was noticed.
Bob Good, Sr. was among the select few who was truly a close personal friend to Mr. Beatty for some 40 years.
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