Wednesday, July 23, 2008

From Harry Kingston #5


Scan10484, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

"Barbara tells me that this is indeed the Sugar Brown family who had been on the Dailey Show when she was there.
The cowboy in the center looks like Johnny Mack Brown, former Western Movie Star.
Other than Eric Beheim, Richard Reynolds, Dave Price, John Herriott , Harry Kingston and myself, few others on the Blog are old enough to remember him.
I might add that before the movies he had been an All-American football player at the U. of Alabama."
Buckles

Posted by Buckles at 7/23/2008 06:26:00 AM

5 comments:

henry edgar said...

somehow. johnny mack brown was connected to my home town, dothan alabama. i think he may have been from dothan. i remember that he was a regular attraction at out annual peanut festival. (also the gunnels brothers billposters were from dothan and had an oyster bar down front with a huge wall that was always covered with paper every time the circus came) the details on these items are hazy -- i left dothan when i was 17, my family moved to florida a few months later, and i haven't been back since.

23 July, 2008 07:20
Anonymous said...

Henry: One of the Gunnels boys was Joe- we used to visit his oyster bar when we played Dothan. After they left the circus they picked up a lot of business putting out paper for political candidates in Alabama.

Buckles: Wasn't it Jerry Presley that was the Sugar Browns' daughter?

23 July, 2008 10:14
Buckles said...

Wasn't Jerry from the Chief and Tillie Keys family.
However there was a girl named Berry that might be included in this picture.

23 July, 2008 10:20
Anonymous said...

Buckles: Yes, you're right, Jerry was from the Keys family on Kelly-Miller.

We had the Sugar Browns on the Cristiani show when I was over there.

I have trouble keeping up with names in my advanced years.

23 July, 2008 10:28
Anonymous said...

Jerry Presley was a daughter of the Pete Pierce family. I believe her son was "Chi Chi" knife thrower and sister Diane. Mary Thorne [wife of Whitey Thorne] was the daughter of Chief and Tilly Keys.

23 July, 2008 16:38

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