Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus #9


Scan11249, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 1/27/2009 06:16:00 AM

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's Pete and Helen, on the bottom, and Ora Jo Logan, on Sue at the top of the pryamid. And, of course, Capt. Fred C. Logan, in command.
I would say, from the looks of this pix, that Col. Bill Woodcock, taught Freddie WELL.

27 January, 2009 19:25
Anonymous said...

I have been corrected, by Eileen Logan Osorio, The elephant on the left is Pete. The other two, I miss identified. They are not Helen and Sue. Eileen is thinking it over and hopefully she will recall their names. If so she will let me know.
She believes these photos were taken in 1971. Most likely one of the other two elephants is either Bea or Gyp.
Sorry for the mistake. I'll leave the elephant identify to someone else, as my expertise is in carnival rides.

27 January, 2009 22:19
Anonymous said...

Buckles I have a 8 x 10 photo Clarence "Dutch" Schultz of Janesville Wisconsin gave me...In it..It shows Rex on horseback, center ring CBCB performing a pyramid...I am assuming Rex trained the pyramid?...Please advise....

27 January, 2009 22:47
Anonymous said...

That just looks INSANE! Great trick!

28 January, 2009 01:55
Anonymous said...

Yes Rex trained the pyramid!
Was the first one to train it!

28 January, 2009 21:04
Buckles said...

Rex told me that when he had the Howard Suesz elephants on the Tom Packs Show he was at a party where they were showing European circus films.
One was from Circus Krone that included this pyramid, someone said, "I'd like to see you do this trick!"
Always open to a challenge, he had it trained in a few days.
How far this feat dates back in Europe I couldn't say.

31 January, 2009 11:43

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