Thursday, August 16, 2007

Milwaukee Parade 2003 #3


PARADE 32B, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 8/16/2007 05:47:00 AM

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Buckles...Loved all the Herriott stuff. This pic of Two Hemispheres in GCP is deceptivily simple. Here you had Sparrow driving forty horse Beligian hitch, ala Jake Posey on B & B at turn of century. A 18 piece real circus band blasting atop as it moved, all in authentic costumes and playing real circus arrangements from CWM collection of such. Ten outriders assisting Sparrow who is handling two hundred pounds of major harness himself, his son at his side took over later. He usually stopped at grandstand, stood up and saluted mayor or parade marshall and crowd and then backed the damn thing up ten feet! Then moved on. What a sight it was and all of us associated with CWM and the parade's production were always very proud of it. By the way we did not own the Two Hemispheres, we leased it annually from Zwiffel. However we maintained and repaired it as necessary and kept it looking like it just came out of the shop. Plumes and harnes for hitch alone worth over fifty thou! Talk about the good old days!...Paul Ingrassia

16 August, 2007 13:39

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