Wednesday, January 02, 2008

RBBB 1940


Scan000010655, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 1/02/2008 06:09:00 AM

5 comments:

David said...

It seems strange that the program cost 15 cents in 1925 and 1933, only 10 cents in 1938, then back up to 15 cents in 1940. Any idea why?

02 January, 2008 10:08
Anonymous said...

If I was to make a guess, I would probably say that the change in price had to do with the depression.I was 11 years old in1938 and remember going to theatre on a Saturday afternoon buying popcorn and a drink and spending less than a quarter The country was in the middle of the deprssion.

02 January, 2008 11:07
Anonymous said...

Richard Reynolds says - -

1940 was the first year for the blue big top with red sides, just as shown here.

I think the long tent depicted at 9o'clock is the horse fair. That's where they showed the ring stock to the public in 1939-40-41.

The Fair was entered via the menagerie. It was a sop to horse lovers upset over the show's abandoning the baggage stock during 1938.

I recall going into it with my Dad in 1939 in Atlanta. There were not many people in it and it was very quiet as I recall.

I have the impression that the horse fair was not set up at all stands in 1941. However, there is a Tibbals color photo of it set up on the Chicago lakefront lot in 1941.

02 January, 2008 12:48
Anonymous said...

I was selling programs for wirth's
circus in Australia in 1953 for sixpence same clown as this on the cover i guess wayne larry must have copied it from Ringlings
as you know wayne from the USA was with wirth's for many years i think first as a flyer it was wayne
who had taken the flying waynes to the USA Stanley & Mary gill
Robert Perry

02 January, 2008 18:20
Anonymous said...

In all it's gigantic splendor. What happened? Oh I forget, we have new owners.

02 January, 2008 19:43

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