| What could be better to start off the day than this 1962 Madison Square Garden hand bill, recently received from Bill Strong. The Nicole Unit begins it's 2008-09 tour tonight at the Forum here in Tampa, we and the grandkids will be the first ones at the gate. |
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
The day has arrived!
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I was 5 years old in 1962. I can't pretend to remember the circus except as a collection of bits and pieces. What I do remember is that it was the second time my brother Jon and I went to the Garden. My mother had taken us to the National Horse Show five or six months before that, so we felt like old hands. The Garden was still up around 50th then, so my grandmother Helen loaded us on to the train from Binghamton (Erie Lackawanna,) fed us club sandwiches, and I think we had to change in Hoboken for Penn Station. Then she herded us in to a cab for the Garden. Back then it seemed like the Garden was the biggest place in the world, fitting for what seemed like the biggest circus imaginable. Today that's all changed, but fortunately five year olds haven't. I'm sure every arena still seems enormous, and even the latest iteration of Ms Feld's show appears to be the huge in young eyes, especially when seen in the company of one's much loved grandparents.
Buckles..
As a big fan of your site I would like to first of all wish you and yours a happy new year. I am sure you do not remember me as I was just a first of may back in 1978 on the blue show but now 30 years later I am back on the blue as the feature clown. Much has changed and yet some is still the same (Sonny is still here on elephant crew). I hope that I get a chance this evening to say hello to you and welcome your grandkids to the circus. All the best and I hope you have some fun tonight.
respectfully...Tom Dougherty
Not only are they too big, but most collectors don't have any idea of how to store or preserve them, that's why my son and I stopped collecting them after 1968.
Bob Kitto
To Tom Dougherty--
Congratulations on going full circle (all the way around the ring?)
I remember you did a gag in CC graduation with a stuffed clown dressed in the same costume as yours . . .
Well done, my friend, and God bless.
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