Biller Bros. Circus 1949. |
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
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This series is circus history in its best description. I can remember those tin plates and cups and the white chunks of Oleo-margerine and the split loaves of bread and the wind, dust rain, hot and cold and the coffee with the grounds in the bottom of the cup, and the trench dug fire with the water barrels hanging over them, and just about "doors" for the night show when the cookhouse would drive slowly off the lot going to the "next town".
For a quarter you could buy a bucket of hot water for a bucket bath in the dressing room. from the cookhouse.
I'll bet, if you asked Joe Frisco, Sr., he would tell you he has had many a meal, in this cookhouse. Also, Freddie Logan was there in 1949, selling reserved seat tickets.
Johnny,
And about midnight you would pass the cookhouse sitting with a flat tire waiting for the mechanics to fix it.
Bob Kitto
must be the 2 hardest jobs in the circus boss canvas man & cook
Robert Perry
Australia
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