Saturday, August 02, 2008

Payoff 1954


Payoff 1954, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

"I rode the South Shore Line from South Bend to Chicago to see the show this year.
For some reason I don't recall much about the spec despite the fact that a 12' tall Hamburger Mary should be difficult for a 19 year old to forget."
Buckles

Posted by Buckles at 8/02/2008 06:26:00 AM

4 comments:

Mike Naughton said...

Can we have a little more information on that striking beauty with the unusual nickname of Hamburger Mary?

Details, please.

03 August, 2008 06:06
Anonymous said...

Mike,
"Hamburger Mary" was actually Anne Mace ( I think she also went by another name which escapes me). I believe John Murray Anderson gave her that nickname.
She was a 6' tall beauty and usually rode the payoff float during the specs designed by Miles White.
Interestingly there was another 6' tall beauty named Pat Warner (Lombardi). Very often she would switch places with Anne Mace on the payoff float since they could both fit into the same costume.
You will be able to see both as I will be sending Buckles new sets of float photos periodically.
Dom Yodice

04 August, 2008 00:00
Buckles said...

Wasn't she dubbed "Hamburger Mary" because she was often late for Spec due to her penchant for hamburgers sold in the back yard pie car.
I think this quote came from Connie Clausen's book.

04 August, 2008 07:21
Mike Naughton said...

Thank you, Dom.

Another 6 foot tall John Murray Anderson find was Roberta Ballantine (Mrs. Bill B.).

I am not certain of the entire lineage, but their son Toby went into clowning, his daughter Tracey went into concessions and her son Brandon works with his father in concessions on the Tarzan Zerbini show.

Brandon's step-mother, is the former Dolly Nock (her father was Charles).

04 August, 2008 08:23

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