Beatty-Cole 1960's-70's #3

Beatty-Cole canvas, 7-70, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. PHOTO 3 (Beatty-Cole canvas, 7-70) In the early 1990s, Beatty-Cole was the last of the big shows to abandon the canvas tent. Shown here is the traditional white top, not the striped variety cleverly pioneered by Cliff Vargas in the 1970s to draw attention to his show when he began to exploit playing shopping centers (not that he was the first to play them). Note the small working crew, a problem of the time when Vietnam siphoned off young males and when immigration laws were stricter. Again, this is Springfield, Mass., on June 15, 1970.