Floyd King on WL Main 1928 (From Dick Flint)

Floyd King on WL Main 1928, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Here's a rare and early shot of the legendary Floyd King on the lot of his 15-car Walter L. Main rail show in 1928. With his brother Howard, they operated the 3-car Great Sanger title in the early '20s and then leased the Walter L. Main title for a 15-car rail show in 1925 (Downie, who had leased the title, sold the equipment to the 101 for its return to the road). Evidently successful (or able to get some scratch from John Pluto), they bought the Gentry-Patterson show late in the season and so fielded two 15-car shows in 1926. This continued except for 1929-30 when the Cole title substituted for the Main mantle on the wagons. Thus, in this brief period, they had a combined show train of 30 cars. Of the rail shows in the late '20s, we think of RBBB and the several circuses that came into the Corporation but after those it was only Christy, Fred Buchannan with his Robbins show, andthe King Brothers.. The lady next to Floyd King is identified as Vonnie Freeman; I'll leave it to Wade, Casey, and the ladies to comment on the sign on the canvas above her. Dick Flint Baltimore