| George Christy used the sub title "The Wonder Show" which my dad said begged for the retort, "Wonder what the Hell will happen next?" |
Monday, November 24, 2008
"The Wonder Show" #2
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15 comments:
Buckles - many years ago Robert Perry used to work a performing horse billed as "Cash" the wonder horse.
After he was announced Robert would mutter under his breath - "after you've seen him you'll wonder what he did"!!!
Steve Robinson
Australia
Mrs. George W. Christy in the window?
That's the way it usually went.
Behind every great man is a woman telling him what he's doing wrong.
Notice the high window in this ticket wagon and Arnold Maley would have loved the walk away money he would ahve made.
Hans Ruwill told me the story that Maley chewed his ass on Beatty Cole as all tehe walk away money he missed making.
Harry
I'll bet that hitch sticking out the back took a few shins with it.
Bob
Looks like they got "gouged" from the top and the bottom.
Course the hitch was an "honest" design flaw I assume.
Harry,
If Wal-Mart raised the counters and started playing the short change game, would you be singing about what a shame someone thought it was they didn't get more?
Not alot photos of Mrs.Christy as she was killed in a auto accident after the show closed. I don't have anything that is clear enough to say for sure, but would bet it was.
P.J.
Short change game only worked in an era when people could actually make change! God-forbid anyboy at Wal-Mart or elsewhere had to make change from a $20 on a purchase of $6.57. It would take all day.
Mr. Trumble...Since most Folks can't make change anymore,Wal-Mart employees or Not.(much thanks to the Electronic age)...Perhaps..Now "IS" the right time to Bring-Em-Back...By unscrupulous Showmen of course..NOT, by the Sunday School variety...Um..Ah... Like Myself..
In this electronic era "short change" requires fiddling with things like sales tax. One local tobacco merchant is current being tarred and feathered for setting his tax rate at 9% when the real rate is 7.25. He undercut his neighbors prices by a cent or two, then made up for it and then some. Tax folks weren't happy. I've noticed as we close down and liquidate our own little business in these current hard times that the Franchise Tax Board is first in line for whatever we pay off.
Rev. Zajicek,
As in "collection plate" extortion? That's as a rule more profitable, as they usually aren't suspecting of it.
Wade Burck
Senor' Trumble...Sales Tax?..Since when did they start putting cash registers on a Garbage Joint?..or a Reserved Seat Box?...You mean Binky is toting one why he sells Coloring Books?..or Fast Eddy is handin out receipts during the Peanut pitch?..I thought the Box Office squared the Tax Collector..thus leavin the the rest of the "Traps" to work Wide-Open?
Brother Burck..The "Holy Shake-Down" has always fascinated me..Yet, a online Ministers License has always been beyond my grasp...and a bigger problem exists with Pearson refusing to go along with "Rev. Zajicek slaps him on the fore-head, and he jumps up from his wheelchair and does the happy dance"...However, if a reliable supplier of "Tiny Bibles" could be found..Well, I can assure Brother Ben, No Sales Tax would be involved!....
Sales Tax?..Since when did they start putting cash registers on a Garbage Joint?..or a Reserved Seat Box?...You mean Binky is toting one why he sells Coloring Books?..or Fast Eddy is handin out receipts during the Peanut pitch?..I thought the Box Office squared the Tax Collector..thus leavin the the rest of the "Traps" to work Wide-Open?
Therein lies the great advantage to the show business over brick and mortar enterprise. Though I think it can be said that the average auto repair business works more angles and employs more grift than any showman
Deacon Zych,
You put the touch on brother Pearson and get him off the casino jones I'll give you a witness and a Grant for 10 tiny bibles. I need a new one. That last "limited edition, blessed by Ernest Ainsley good book" that you sold me,(that said Property of Day Inn on the inside cover) fell apart.
Wade Burck
Grape stomper Burck...I will do my best on Lost Sheep Pearson...As far as The Tiny Bible..I believe the Gideon's have the same supply problem as The Curator...Only they have moved on.. to a LARGER version...
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