Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Al G. Field #2


Scan11179, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Ready to lead his parade at Hot Springs, Arkansas circa 1915.

"As a teenager my dad worked as a stage hand at this Opera House.
He said the big shows like this one came in by baggage car.
He mentioned that a Ben Hur Company would include horses and actually had chariot races on a treadmill."
Buckles

Posted by Buckles at 1/13/2009 06:33:00 AM

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Some railroad owned and leased scenery cars, baggage cars with freight doors located to one end via which tall pieces of scenery were loaded length-wise into the car body. There were once many special theater stage mechanisms in use, Soleil and other outfits are no more advanced with their technology that the old showmen were in their days. Check out the Hopkins book to see some of them.

13 January, 2009 10:24
Anonymous said...

I did chariot races on treadmill`s in Tihany`s show in Mexico. I practised with the horses at John Herriots place, used the same horses for roman riding as well. Seams like 100 years ago.

13 January, 2009 15:34
Anonymous said...

The poster behind the carriage reads "Al G. Field Minstrels"

15 January, 2009 13:31

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