Tuesday, October 14, 2008

CB-CB Bannerlines #9


Clyde Beatty Cole Bros CBCB62 -005, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 10/14/2008 06:03:00 AM

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Another Series of Exelent Documentation !
These Cleverly Designed & Engineered Bannerlines are certainly a Practical , Sturdy & Attractive Entity in building up Excitement & the Audiances Spirit prior to entering the BIG SHOW .
BUT :
Everything is Changing so Fast .
THE PAST IS GONE !

The NEW Poly / Teck is Merely Begining .

OPERTUNITYS ALWAYS KNOCKEN
weather YOU hear it or not

14 October, 2008 10:18
Anonymous said...

I always liked the shadow box bannerline..A dream of mine would be to have all the CBCB banners dimly lit...and with a foot operated set of switches on the Bally stage..As the talker described a particular Banner,he could tap the appropriate switch with his foot and magically that banner would then become "Brightly lit" and so on and so forth..I'll never do it tho..Unless, by a miracle...I hit the "Motherlode"....again, highly unlikely.....

14 October, 2008 13:12
Mike Naughton said...

Jim Z-

Great idea. There is a remote hand-held device for controlling lights, you could even add special effects while the banner is being lit. Smoke from the top of the banner for the fire eater; thunder background sound for Miss Electra; screams for the bed of nails, etc.
I know one person who would know how to do it (Chic).
The hand-held remote is not that expensive.
With all the rock-n-roll stuff going on out from you might be able to raise the price.
What is the price these days anyway?

14 October, 2008 13:32
Buckles said...

Charlie Campbell had his Palace Car booked into the menagerie area of the Houston Shrine date one Fall and every chance we got, Smokey and I would go over and cut up some jackpots.
On one occasion a teen age couple were nervously examining the casket and finally the boy asked if he could open it.
Very seriously Charlie announced, "Miss O'Day's casket will open automatically in 11 seconds!"
Charlie had a concealed button and sure enough, 11 seconds later the lid raised slowly causing the girl to suddenly gasp.
Charlie quickly went to their side with pencil and paper and excitedly asked "Did She Move!" and after a debate the girl admitted that she thought she saw movement.
He then took their names and addresses and told them they would be contacted by the Paranormal Division of the University of Virginia for further questioning.
After they left he casually wadded the paper up and threw it in the trash.
Me and Smokey laughed the rest of the afternoon.

14 October, 2008 13:45
Anonymous said...

Mike..The price these days..is whatever the market will bear...set it to high and nobody will go in...set it to low...and you should do more than you can handle...the secret is to set it at somwhere in between...The BCS has a 100' front, yet I have more price signs..than banners...The ONLY sign on my ticket box that is a sure thing (in the deep south)..is "Be needin Help" always gets more applicants than "Help Wanted" of course (in the North)..the opposite works Better..Believe It or NOT!...

14 October, 2008 16:09
Anonymous said...

Buckles..Great coffin story!...


some of the first attractions I ever aqquired I bought from Manuel King...One of them was a small skeleton in a box...My Girlfreind at the time (Pat W)told me she had a Dream and that the skeleton was a young girl named "Mildred"..She said that in the dream..Mildred being about 15 was abused by her Father..One day she resisted,and her Father killed her by hitting her over the head with a object...and then was buried..years later in truth dug up and displayed on shows...PAT INSISTED that I stopped showing the skeleton and give it a proper burial..(which I refused)..While showing Erie PA.(Sterling & Reid)..2 women paid and went into the show..They were in there for what seemed forever...when they finaly came out they approached me and proclaimed my skeleton was VERY interesting..I asked why?...and after explaining to me that they were Archeolgist Professors at the Colledge in Erie...they gave me the following details...The skeleton is old, perhaps from the 1800's...By the bones and pelvis, it tells us they are from a young girl..and from a crack in the skull...She died from a BLOW to the head!...I have not since showed the skeleton..However, I hav'nt buried it either..TRUE STORY!!

14 October, 2008 16:49
Anonymous said...

You ought to read the book about Elmer McCurdy. It's been remaindered and is available cheap. For a quick peek check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_McCurdy. There's also the more recent story of the Aborigine, Tambo Tambo, a former attache of the Barnum circus, who was repatriated back to his homeland for proper burial. Frankly, you're in violation of state and perhaps federal laws with your possession of body parts and evidence for a felony, and crossing state lines with them.

15 October, 2008 10:35
Anonymous said...

Anonymous, 1, Human flesh on the Bone cannot be displayed, Skeletons can...2,A Felony charge would be on PURE speculation and Hearsay...3. The skeleton in question has not crossed state lines in over 6 years...4. IF..a issue was made...confiscation would be the result..Nothing more...nothing less...5. I will check out Elmer...in closing...Nothing would PLEASE me more than to have Renaldo Rivera to show up with a Film crew to open up my 2-headed Baby to reveal if its REAL...I envision the Curator decked out in a Doctors smock..with all looking on and cameras rolling..Only, to have said Curator (Me) open the jar...remove the "Punk"...and bounce him off the floor back into my arms..as I declare "Sorry Renaldo...their RUBBER!!!"!!!...

15 October, 2008 12:34
Buckles said...

Charlie Campbell told me that he got rousted a few times when people living near his location complained that they could smell the body.

15 October, 2008 12:43
Mike Naughton said...

http://www.amazinghumanbody.com.au/

Jim - check out the amazing human body website where they tour with human specimens (dead of course)

This show appeared in New York.

I noticed the web site had the "au" tag meaning it is from Australia where freak animals are not allowed to be displayed, but dead folks are.

Your comment to Jimmy Hall about granola reminded me of this -- while announcing in Canada one summer, I was called to the front of the building to address the media over the handful of animal rights protesters. A police officer escorted me to the front and nonchalantly said, "It is just a bunch of Granolas out there protesting." I looked at him, "Granolas?" The officer responded, "Fruity, flakey and nutty."

15 October, 2008 15:26
Anonymous said...

Mike...My Girlfreind saw that showwhen it played Tampa...They were advertising it in Salt Lake City when I was there...Everyone I talked who saw it said it was Incredible..Over 1/2 of the S.S. is "Pickled"...I wonder if "Pickled" would fly Down Under??...Thanks for the Link...Best JZ

15 October, 2008 18:12

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