More on Bridgeport Quarters

Scan000011085, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. From Anonymous: Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "George Denman #10": Photographs of RBBB parade wagons between 1921 and the 1940s are infrequently encountered. One typically sees more photos of the former Sparks parade wagons at Sarasota, after they were placed on display outdoors in the 1931-1938 era. Some ex-RBBB wagons appear in generic photos of the Bridgeport quarters, like the one Deafy Denman view with elephants in the NE corner of the Bridgeport quarters. Others turn up in Bob Good Sr.'s post-1924 fire photos. A few RBB wagons were used in the 1921 and 1923 NYC milk fund parades, but otherwise they were keptin storage. Most of the former RBBB parade wagons were sold off in the 1920s, but the Five Graces, United States Tableau, an air calliope wagon and perhaps a few others were taken south during the Bridgeport to Sarasota relocation. The tableau went to pieces there, and was resurrected as a replica. The air calliope was cut down into a manure wagon. The Five Graces, seen in this photo, was shipped north from Sarasota to be used on Hagenbeck-Wallace in the 1930s and thankfully was shipped back south when the Peru quarters was cleared in the early 1940s. From Buckles: This is the same Bridgeport photo but taken from a different angle showing yet more rolling stock.