Thursday, July 12, 2007

Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth #5


Scan10063, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is this sameone that was in the kelly farm photos from last week?

David

Bob Cline said...

It is my understanding that is is indeed!
Bob

PS I'll send Buckles a photo of the restored piece in all it's grandeur at Circus World ( Museum )

Anonymous said...

Richard Reynolds asks - -

Was this Cinderalla carriage actually on B&B or did it come later?

Anonymous said...

To Richard Reynolds: Fred Dahlinger wrote in an internal memo dated Nov 13, 1993 to Greg Parkinson that "the Cinderella Carriage appears to have been constructed for the 1920 season and was used without interruption through the 1935 tour." Fred continues that "it is possible that the wagon was constructed as early as 1919, but no confirmation or indication of its existence can be found."

GaryHill said...

Not to get too far off subject, but tonight I watched "Annie Oakley" with Barbara Standwick on TMC and it was a really good program, lots of wagons and the Wild West Arena shots were full of action! Good movie!

Anonymous said...

I aso watched the movie and the Wild West stuff was great. Mounting saddle broncs without the use of a bucking chute,[yes thats they way it was done] and the congress of rough riders. The story line was half factual, but I liked the bit where they referred to a free pass as an 'Annie Oakley" and when Sitting Bull called her "Little Miss Sureshot". I just happened to tune in while flicker jumping the channels and was surprisingly and thoroughly entertained.

Anonymous said...

Wonder where Paul Kelly got that wagon? It was not part of the Cole Show stuff that ended up there. Someone mentioned that it was not an original, but I guess it was after reading the info comments.

Buckles said...

I saw a Western a few nights ago called "McKenna's Gold". It was awful.
I couldn't believe they had such award winning actors as Edward G. Robinson, Raymond Massey, Anthony Quale, Eli Wallach, Burgess Meredith and Lee J. Cobb in minor roles, sweltering in the Arizona desert. They were all killed off early which I'm sure didn't come too soon for them.
How complicated can a Western plot be? But they had a narrator to explain the thing and whose voice was familiar.
When the Cavalry arrived, headed by Telly Savalas, I turned off the TV and went to bed.
The next morning I checked with Google and the narrator turned out to be Victor Jory. You may remember him as the villianous overseer in "Gone With The Wind".

GaryHill said...

Col. Sir, I wonder if Rodeo actually got its start on Wild Bill's Wild West Show? They were even steer wrestling? Bill Picket, a black man was the first to actually bulldog a steer.

Buckles said...

I never thought about it but you might be right.
Col. Cody featured sports and past times of the old west plus reenactments of the "Robbing of the Stage Coach", the "Hanging of the Horse Thief", the "Attack on the Wagon Train", as well as assorted rides, rapes and rescues.