Comments from Richard Reynolds #1

originally uploaded by bucklesw1. These Barnes-SF/RBBB and Robbins Bros. ads were in Atlanta's Sunday papers for October 16, 1938, the day before Robbins was set to open. Note that Robbins calls itself "Famous Robbins." That's the way all its Atlanta ads read. Just why I cannot say because the show was officially "Robbins Bros." Photos show that all the equipment was lettered with the official name. I know the Robbins Bros name must have been on its paper here in Atlanta because my Dad always said that "We saw Robbins Bros." Perhaps the advertising department got hold of some wooden ad blocks for "Famous Robbins." Maybe the press department figured that "Famous R." was better know in the South than "R. Bros." Re Barnes-SF - - my Dad always told me that we had seen Sells Floto in 1938. He was very familiar with SF because it had played a number of dates here when he was growing up and into the 1920s. However, Barnes was unknown to him because it had never played Georgia before 1938. It was only after I met Joe Bradbury that I learned that it was Barnes we had seen - not SF - - that Sells Floto was merely an added name for the Al G. Barnes shows of 1937 and 1938.