Tuesday, October 14, 2008

CB-CB Bannerlines #1 From Joe Giordano)


Clyde Beatty Cole Bros CBCB65 -010, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Buckles

The other day Paul H was hoping some color photos of Beatty-Cole bannerline trucks would surface. I was able to dig out a few from 1960 to 1970. I also included a couple shots of the Hippo and Snake show trucks from the 60's.

Posted by Buckles at 10/14/2008 06:31:00 AM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cable television, and the Internet, have killed most opportunities for side show activity. You can see everything that has been in them and in greater breadth than was ever presented in shows. What you cannot experience, though, via a TV or Internet presentation, is the "live" element of human interaction, performer to audience. That may be the most effective aspect to exploit.

There has been engagement with the aspect of our culture that has taken tattooing, body piercing and associated activities [some truly crazy, like "scarification"] that were once exploited by showmen to new levels. This is the audience that has witnessed most of the activity by Jim Rose and Ken Harck's outfits. You generally don't see them at the circus.

15 October, 2008 10:43
Anonymous said...

Thank you the color bannerline photos. It was just as I remembered from the mid-60s. Watching Chuck Fuller (or anybody from that era) do an opening was a real treat!

15 October, 2008 22:09

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