Al G. Barnes 1923 Route Book #4

Scan000010896, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. I'm sure you Beatty Show fans remember Bill Moore, quite a character. A bunch of us were in a restaurant in Hugo one day when he came charging in the door and creating quite a stir. Someone said "Hi Bill, how's things on the Beatty Show?" and he answered, "I told that fuckin' Concello, if you think I'm fired you are sadly mistaken! So I kept his fuckin' $100,000 and had him escorted off the lot!"......all the while he was picking french fries off my plate. Somehow he was involved in Texas politics and held in high regard by Sam Rayburn. One time he even showed me two invitations he had for Lyndon Johnson's Inaugural Ball. My first thought was, I hope they don't seat him by Lady Bird. I've told the story before that during some open time in Texas, Barbara and I camped with the elephants with her father's little show (Rube Ray) and one day a couple of local rowdies came on the lot looking for trouble. A scuffle ensued and they later came back with the police and I was arrested. Fortunately we were close to Bill Moore's home town, Bonham, and Rube called Mr. Moore's widow who simply made a phone call and I was immediately released. Parley Bear lived on Bilmoor St. in Tarzana and he told me that the main reason he bought the house was due to the name of the street.