Monday, February 09, 2009

Acme Circus Corporation


Scan11289, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 2/09/2009 06:13:00 AM

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Circus Commodity Price Report

A sporadic piece of information that I will post when I have time.

From the Yankee Doodle Circus "Pay No More" Wholesale Price Guideline, Feb 2009:

Pure Cane Sugar, purchased at a Wholesale Club in New York, 52 cents per pound, 25# bag.

This might be a fitting post for the floss joint photo.

Thank you to those gentlemen who jokingly called/emailed my father asking him the price of sugar after my last posting regarding his memory of prices throughout the years. I fear I will never live it down.

09 February, 2009 09:59
Anonymous said...

Beatty-Cole, of course, was the Big Show of the McClosky-Kernan-Collins-Calhoun triumvirate. King was the medium-sized show, with Sells & Gray the smallest. It was taken out by Willy Storey, and one year when my uncle, Johnny Trenam, a powerful tax lawyer in Florida, had doled out his legal wisdom, the rumor was that McClosky took Storey aside and murmured, "Willy, don't make any money this year."

Roger Smith

09 February, 2009 23:04
henry edgar said...

i never saw sells and gray during the willie storey years but during the years bill english operated the show, it was the most beautiful of the three and the performance, for the most part, was far more impressive than king -- most of the acts on sells and gray at that time were of the same quality as the best of the beatty-cole acts, and carmen del molino, pat miller, the santiago riding act and the lacey troupe on rolling globes were ringling quality. the ivanovs, the roby-van loos, the paulos, the del manzanas and the pedrolas were also strong enough for any date.the aquilar perch act and carmen del teide came to sells and gray only a couple years after leaving ringling. during that period, it was mcclosky, kernan and english on sells and gray, kernan, mccloskey and bobby snowden on king. no collins or calhoun. a couple of years after his death, i understand that kernan's widow sold his interest in the shows to art concello, who withdrew in mid-season. i assume that was when collins and calhoun entered the picture. by then snowden had left and english was leaving.

10 February, 2009 23:14

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