Half a century! (From Ole Whitey)

Buckles11, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Years Ago Today This picture was made fifty years ago today at the Overton Park Zoo in Memphis. Left to right are John Hall and his then wife Wink (several years later John was manager of the Hoxie show) and the guy on the right is a very young Whitey on the way to his first circus job on the advance of Famous Cole owned by Herb Walters and Glenn Jarmes. I had already bought a Greyhound Bus ticket to Hugo when John offered to drive me down in their Volkswagen if I would give him the cost of the ticket. I went downtown, managed to get a refund on my bus ticket and handed the dough over to John. We left Nashville bright and early Friday morning and after several stops along the way arrived in Hugo that night and found a motel. Saturday morning we located the Famous Cole bill crew getting their paper sorted and stored in the trucks and I talked to Jarmes, who had hired me, and met the car manager, Francis Kitzman. Halls left for home that day and I checked into the Webb Hotel. Sunday we pulled out for our first town, Cooper, Texas. I was in SHO BIZ!!! Dave