| I like this picture. Possibly the regular calliope wagon broke down and someone decided to take the air calliope off the bandstand, toss it into the back of a canvas wagon and with the command, "Go ahead driver!" sent it on it's way. |
Monday, May 26, 2008
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My recollection is that this might be Sells-Floto about 1931, or at least some time after the show quit daily parading. I'd bet that the image appears in one of Joe Bradbury's many great season review articles in "White Tops." They pulled the air calliope off the band stand and placed it in a baggage wagon for parade. The front compartment, light duty walls and lack of a lifting rig suggest that this wasn't a canvas wagon. The player and his assistant would have been eating the fumes from the gas engine powering the blower.
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