Monday, June 16, 2008

Frank Buck 1938 #1 (From Buckles)


Scan10279, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 6/16/2008 06:18:00 AM

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Frank Buck appeared in the spec, "Nepal," during Ringling's performance, riding in a howdah atop an Asian elephant. My family's circus purchases during a May, 1938, Philadelphia, PA, visit to see Buck & the show included a Frank Buck pythe helmet. -- Bill Hall

16 June, 2008 08:35
Anonymous said...

My mind’s eye still sees this poster on the side of a building on Elizabeth St. around the corner from Atlanta’s Highland Ave showgrounds. It advertised the coming of Barnes/Sells Floto with RBBB attractions in November 1938.

On circus day I can also recall seeing Buck in the howdah announcing the appearance of the Gargantua cage wagon which circled the hippodrome track.

Paul Ringling (Alf T’s grandson) was in the ticket wagon that year. He told me the folks on the show called Bring ‘Em Back Alive, “One buck Buck.” Why, because that’s all he would tip the porters who worked his sleeper, that being the going rate even for performers with a lot less billing.

16 June, 2008 14:04
Eric said...

Regarding Frank Buck's $1 tip: allowing for inflation, that same tip would equal a little over $15.00 today.

16 June, 2008 19:38
Buckles said...

When I was in the Sarasota Quarters the winter of 1956-57 a young girl, maybe Jr. High School age, would come around the elephant barn and I was told she was Paul Ringling's daughter.
Can't remember her name (Sandy?) she had a bad scar on the side of her face and she told me that while having a tooth pulled, the Dentist allowed the pliers slip and it tore completely thru her cheek.
She said that she would have plastic surgery done when she got a little older.

16 June, 2008 19:57
Anonymous said...

By the way, this is a 16-sheet and it was Printed by Strobridge from stones, which is to say the old fashion way.

16 June, 2008 20:08
Anonymous said...

When I get a chance I will send some pictures that were taken at a lake outside of Milton, WI. I am guessing that they were taken after the big one combined because the performers are definately on vacation.
Bob Kitto

16 June, 2008 20:12
Anonymous said...

Sorry to disappoint, Dave, but Strobridge had long given up the use of actual litho stones by this date. Actually, zinc plates that imitated the random dot pattern of a stone had been used on some circus posters by the early 1870s. As photography began to be used in the litho (now called offset) process at the turn-of-the-century and with the introduction of the rotary press in the 1905-10 period, metal plates quickly replaced the old stones. When the random (rather than regular) dot pattern appears, it only indicates that a photographic screen was not used in transfering the artist's sketch to the printing plate.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

16 June, 2008 23:11
Anonymous said...

Now this stand has everything that you want to know. Who, what, where and when. I know, it does not tell why, but you don't tell the public that the why is so you can make money.
Too bad most of the current billing is so poor that if you don't get out of your vehicle and get close, youy have no idea what the poster is trying to say.
Bob Kitto

19 June, 2008 19:50

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